Posts Tagged ‘athletics’

March 2013 Live Auction Lot Preview

A’s Society to Sponsor 2nd Live Auction

Mark your calender for Saturday March 2nd as the A’s Society will sponsor its 2nd live auction. As in the previous auction that was a resounding success, the A’s Society will be offering many rare artifacts from its Museum.

The 1929 Athletics World Series Championship Team Poster

  This rare photo of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics is being offered in a limited edition of less than ten. Framed to a full size of 18×24 you will look long and hard to find a copy of this photo that was issued by a local Philadelphia Newspaper shortly after the Athletics won the World […]

Bobby Shantz Signing May 19, 2012

 

Former Phillies greats attend signing at Horsham hotel

Bill White, center, a former Major League baseball player with the Giants, Cardinals and Phillies, and former president of the National League from 1989 to 1994, listens intently as a fan describes one of his favorite memories during a book-signing event Saturday sponsored by the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society at the Days Inn in Horsham. […]

Eddie Robinson to appear for signing event on Saturday, August 27, 2011 from 10 AM - Noon at the Days Inn in Horsham, PA

LIVE AUCTION! Catalog of Live Auction of the 50 lots are available by calling the A’s Society at 1-800-318-0483 or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CATALOG. Bids will be accepted over the phone until 3pm on Friday August 26th @ 1-800-318-0483.  

Bobby Shantz Shares Baseball Memories With Residents of The Philadelphia Protestant Home

  Baseball fans from The Philadelphia Protestant Home were thrilled when major league left handed pitching star Bobby Shantz, who played from the late 1940s until the early 60s, visited PPh on August 24.

Memory Lane with the Mack Family

       

SIMMONS & SHANTZ PACK SOCIETY’S MUSEUM

SIMMONS & SHANTZ PACK SOCIETY’S MUSEUM

YOUTHS FROM HATBORO’s YMCA TOUR MUSEUM

A group of eager baseball fans took a tour of the Society’s Museum on Thursday July 21st and were delighted with the artifacts on display. When asked what in their opinion was the greatest team of all time the one youngster shouted out “THE 2004 Boston Red Sox”. He was not dismayed when he learned […]