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.
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SIMMONS & SHANTZ PACK SOCIETY’S 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 […]
Society’s Meeting with the Atwater/Kent
By David Jordan In the summer of 1924, Connie Mack purchased from the Easton club of the Eastern Shore League the contract of a broad-shouldered, muscular 16-year-old catcher named Jimmie Foxx. Foxx, a farm boy from Sudlersville, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was recommended to Mack by his former Hall of Fame third baseman, Frank […]
My father took me to my first Philadelphia Athletics game in 1948 and it was well into the 50s before I moved on to to other things. I was brought up in Richboro, PA and was able to attend all of the home games and many away games during those years. That was a time […]
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