Posts Tagged ‘Philadelphia Athletics’

Lou Brissie

  Baseball history is filled with examples of men who overcame huge obstacles to play the national pastime. One of them was most definitely a lefthanded pitcher named Lou Brissie.      

Rube Waddell: Strikeout King

by Max Silberman When A’s fans mention great left-handed pitchers, the names of Lefty Grove, Eddie Plank and Bobby Shantz immediately spring to mind. When Phillie Curt Schilling struck out 300 batters for the second consecutive year in 1998, he joined an elite group of five pitchers including the A’s wacky Rube Waddell.  

Eddie T. Collins, Jr.

November 23, 1916 - November 2, 2000 Edward T. Collins, Jr., 83, of Kennett Square, former head of the history department at Episcopal Academy in Lower Merion, died of cardiac arrest Thursday at Southern Chester County Medical Center.  

Hank Wyse -March 1, 1918 to October 22, 2000

Hank Wyse, the last Chicago Cubs pitcher to pitch in a World Series, died October 22nd in Salina, Oklahoma. He was 83.