By David M. Jordan I saw Dick Fowler pitch for the A’s on numerous occasions, but the one that always sticks in my mind is the one I didn’t see. It was Sunday, September 9, toward the end of the 1945 season. I planned to go down to Shibe Park that day, to see the […]
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By Ernie Montella I suppose you could say that it was the scripted “A’ on the players uniform I noticed as I handed the dealer $6 for that packet of musty looking newspaper clippings tucked into an equally tattered plastic bag. It was May 1998 and I was out of town at a sports […]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Philadelphia Athletics first American League championship, one of nine the team would win during its illustrious history. The 1902 title was, in some respects, the most improbable the Mackmen would claim. The year started disastrously for the A’s—not on the ball field, but in the courts. […]
by Bob Warrington Introduction Most baseball fans with a sense of history are aware of the legendary managerial career of Connie Mack—the skipper of the Philadelphia Athletics between 1901-50. Less well known is the fact that Mack also had an 11-year career as a major league baseball player in the late 19th century. Generally regarded […]
by Max Silberman Few men have gained such universal admiration and respect as Connie Mack. His nine pennants and five world’s championships ensured his place in the Hall of Fame. But one decision, so shocking and outrageous at the time, changed the course of baseball history and helped create the last Athletics dynasty.
by Bob Warrington Among Presidents of the United States, one of the most ardent fans of baseball was Richard M. Nixon. In addition to loving the game, Nixon maintained a scholarly interest in baseball and was quite knowledgeable of its history. In 1972, the then-President was asked by a reporter to name his all-time baseball […]
By David Jordan Elwood Pierce Wheaton, lefthanded all the way, was born in Philadelphia in 1914, played in 37 games for the Athletics, seven in the outfield at the end of the 1943 season, then thirty games in 1944, eleven of them as a pitcher. In the early 1980s, Woody sat down and talked with […]
by Dale B. Smith If Major League Baseball ever decided to hand out an award for best performance by a ballplayer on a perennial last place team, the hands down winner should be the Philadelphia Athletics’ Bob Johnson. Perhaps never has such a talented player suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune […]
by Dale Smith The 1954 season had unfolded like a Greek epic. The baseball gods seemed to be against the Philadelphia Athletics all season. The great warrior Gus Zernial had fallen at mid-season and was carried from the battlefield. Legions of foreign soldiers entered Connie Mack Stadium in Trojan horses, only to plunder Eddie Joost’s […]
by Bob Warrington Overview of the Ballpark Informally known by various names including Philadelphia Base Ball Park and the Huntingdon Street Grounds, National League Park—as it was officially called—was the home ballpark of the Philadelphia Phillies between 1887 and mid-1938. It gradually came to be known as Baker Bowl after William F. Baker, owner of […]
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