By PATRICK GORDON - Philadelphia Baseball Review It was a brisk October Sunday afternoon in 1910 at Chicago’s old West Side Park when Athletics pitcher Jack Coombs etched an indelible mark on Philadelphia’s baseball landscape. The right hander, who had already won Games 2 and 3 of the World Series behind a pair of complete games, was staked to […]
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Frank was a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1949 season and the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1953 season.
By Dick Rosen Several months ago, Ernie Montella, the Executive Director of the Phila. A’s Historical Society was accosted in a supermarket by an elderly man while both were in line at the checkout. The shopper caught a glimpse of Montella’s A’s cap and his T-shirt, which featured a logo of the Society. Taking this […]
By Bob Warrington “Like 95 percent of the baseball players and fans, I find my chief recreation away from the diamond in the gun.” So wrote Charles Albert “Chief” Bender in a 1915 article describing what players do to relax and hone their baseball skills during the off-season.
By Bob Warrington Late in life, Hall of Fame pitcher Denton “Cy” Young was reminiscing about his career and stated, “Of all the games I pitched in the big leagues, that one in Boston stands clearest in my mind.” For a man who won 511 games and lost 316 over 22 years, “that one in […]
August 7, 2010
AUTOGRAPHED Straight Talk from Wild Thing Mitch Williams With Darrell Berger, forword by John Kruk 194 page hard cover So the 1993 season ends with Joe Carter’s homer off Mitch. I’m playing first. The first thing I thought to myself was, okay, its over, we had a helluva run. We finished last the year […]
By Dave Jordan Phillies fans the country over were saddened to learn of the death on July 8 of Robert A. “Maje” McDonnell, just shy of his ninetieth birthday.
Former A’s pitcher, Morrie Martin died of cancer on May 24, 2010 at his home in Washington, Missouri. He was 87.
by Max Silberman Leroy Wheat, 78, who pitched for the A’s in Philadelphia in 1954 and Kansas City in 1955 died July 29 at a hospital near his Florida home.
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