Gus Zernial, the former major league slugger who settled in Clovis, CA after his 11-year career ended and became a sports broadcaster and one of the Fresno Grizzlies’ biggest advocates, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 87. Mr. Zernial died at a Fresno hospice care center from the effects of congestive heart failure, […]
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Dave Philley, a switch-hitting outfielder who still holds the major league record for most consecutive pinch hits, died Thursday in his hometown of Paris at the age of 91.
Family-Placed Death Notice SIMMONS, Capt. John Capt. John Alan Simmons, USAF Retired, 74 of Atlanta and Guadalajara passed Saturday, January 30, 2010.
by Max Silberman The days after Thanksgiving leading up to Christmas are generally joyous but this year the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society learned with great sadness that cancer had taken the life of Vic Power.
by Max Silberman Hal Epps, outfielder for the l944 Athletics passed away in Texas on August 25th at the age of 90.
Charlie Bowles, who pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics in l943 and l945 passed away in December 2003 in North Carolina.
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”.
by Max Silberman Former Athletics catcher Ray Murray passed away on Wednesday April 9th at the age of 83.
by David M. Jordan On Wednesday May 22, 2002, Joseph Thomas Cascarella, a pitcher for the Athletics in 1934 and 1935, died of pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital. He was 94, having been born June 28, 1907, in Philadelphia.
by C. Paul Rogers III At first glance, a pitcher with a 45–89 career record, a lifetime earned run average of 4.49, and twice having led his league in losses is not exactly a player one thinks of as a victim of bad luck.
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