A’s Society Goes Back in Time
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The Oakland Athletics will be visiting the Phillies over the weekend of June 24, 25, 26. To commemorate the A’s return to Philly, the Oakland Athletics PR Department has donated two official Athletics home jerseys shown here in these photos. They are the official game worn & autographed jerseys of Trevor Cahill ‘s size 48 […]
by Bob Warrington Introduction Connie Mack’s biographer, Frederick G. Lieb, had this to say about the Philadelphia Athletics’ 1908 season, “The A’s went into a sharp tailspin.” After a second place finish in 1907 with an 88-57 record, the team dropped to 68-85 in 1908, earning the A’s sixth place at season’s end—the lowest the […]
PHILADELPHIA A’s SOCIETY PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL LIVE AUCTION OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA
by Dale B. Smith In the early years of our lives June was a special time. In our childhood it meant the beginning of summer vacations. Later, it meant graduation. Our graduation was a chance to shine, if only for a few seconds, to hear our names called and to walk across a stage, diploma […]
by Dale B. Smith “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Charles Dickens could easily have been referring to the 1914 season of the Philadelphia Athletics. For Connie Mack, 1914 meant both another American League pennant and the destruction of his Athletics family. It was a year of bitter disappointment […]
Front: Steve Van Buren, Chuck Bednarik Back: Pete Retzlaff, Dick Lucas, Ken Farragut, Jim Gallagher, Tommy McDonald Photo provided by Tug McErlain Thanks to Chuck Bednarik’s son-in-law, Ken Safarowic for providing the details & photo of this great event.
We are proud to present a replica of the same design of the Athletics “A” logo that has appeared on Philadelphia Athletics home uniform for their entire 50 + years in Philly. Consisting of a cloth material, sew on type design measuring at the bottom spread 6 3/4″x 5 1/4 “.
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