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 […]
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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 Bob Warrington Among Presidents of the United States, one of the most ardent fans of baseball was Richard M. Nixon. In addition to loving the game, Nixon maintained a scholarly interest in baseball and was quite knowledgeable of its history. In 1972, the then-President was asked by a reporter to name his all-time baseball […]
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 […]
by Dale Smith The 1954 season had unfolded like a Greek epic. The baseball gods seemed to be against the Philadelphia Athletics all season. The great warrior Gus Zernial had fallen at mid-season and was carried from the battlefield. Legions of foreign soldiers entered Connie Mack Stadium in Trojan horses, only to plunder Eddie Joost’s […]
by Bob Warrington Introduction Connie Mack and his Athletics brought Philadelphia its second baseball championship in 1905 by capturing the American League crown. Using many of the same players who won the A’s first league title in 1902, Mack tasted victory for a second time in 1905, but only after surviving a harrowing pennant race. […]
This is another of the interviews with wartime ballplayers conducted by A’s Society member Kit Crissey and included in his book, Teenagers, Graybeards and 4-F’s, vol. 2 (copyright 1982), and reprinted with Kit’s permission.
by Dale Smith During his 50-year reign as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, Connie Mack was known for having an uncanny ability to spot potential. Whether on a college diamond, an independent minor league team or through the A’s own farm system, Connie just seemed to know which players were going to have Hall of […]
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.
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