By Ronnie Joyner Trivia question — who was the last 20 game winner for the St. Louis Browns? Well, technically the answer is probably Ned Garver with his amazing 20-12 season for the 1951 team. Bob Turley, who toiled in 10 games for the ’53 Browns, won 21 with the 1958 Yankees, so he […]
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By Max Silberman Ruben Gomez, best remembered for his l954 rookie season with the World’s Champions New York Giants when he had a 17-9 record passed away July 26 in Puerto Rico after a long illness.
by Dale B. Smith Some things were just meant to be. Babe Ruth was destined to be a Yankee. Lou Brock was born to be a Cardinal. George Kell and the Detroit Tigers were meant for each other. You can call certain trades or purchases ridiculous or absurd but some moves were just fulfilling […]
by Dale B. Smith They say it is hard to keep a good man down. If that is true then Bullet Joe Bush must have been a very good man. He was certainly a winner. Despite numerous setbacks during his major league career, Joe always came back on top, mostly by accomplishment and sometimes […]
by Max Silberman Edward F. Burtschy was better known to A’s fans as “Moe” and was part of the l954 team.
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”.
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 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 […]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Philadelphia Athletics first American League championship, one of nine the team would win during its illustrious history. The 1902 title was, in some respects, the most improbable the Mackmen would claim. The year started disastrously for the A’s—not on the ball field, but in the courts. […]
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