Over the years, one of Veterans Stadium’s most popular attractions has been the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame, located on the 200 level concourse behind home plate. The display was started in 1978 as a way to commemorate the city’s rich baseball history and each year plaques are added to the wall to recognize a […]
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by Max Silberman John Welaj passed away Saturday September 13, 2003.One of the greatest compliments one can pay a man in the world of baseball is to call him a “Baseball Man”.
It had been many years since Al Simmons’ picture had graced the cover of a national magazine. But on August 19, 1996, there he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In perfect “bucketfoot” fashion, with his left foot extending towards the third base dugout, Al’s picture had been chosen for the lead story […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Max Silberman Former Athletics catcher Ray Murray passed away on Wednesday April 9th at the age of 83.
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 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 […]
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