Mark your calender for Saturday March 2nd as the A’s Society will sponsor its 2nd live auction. As in the previous auction that was a resounding success, the A’s Society will be offering many rare artifacts from its Museum.
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This rare photo of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics is being offered in a limited edition of less than ten. Framed to a full size of 18×24 you will look long and hard to find a copy of this photo that was issued by a local Philadelphia Newspaper shortly after the Athletics won the World […]
by Dale B. Smith In the early years of our lives June was a special time. In our childhood it meant the beginning of summer vacations. Later, it meant graduation. Our graduation was a chance to shine, if only for a few seconds, to hear our names called and to walk across a stage, diploma […]
by Dale B. Smith “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Charles Dickens could easily have been referring to the 1914 season of the Philadelphia Athletics. For Connie Mack, 1914 meant both another American League pennant and the destruction of his Athletics family. It was a year of bitter disappointment […]
On a rainy humid Saturday morning in Horsham Pa, the first fans started to line up at 8:00 am to insure their spot to see the Phillies 2008 World Series trophy. Three hours before its scheduled arrival they came dressed in their Phillies tee shirts, or uniform shirts, hats, all sorts of clothing to […]
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by Bill Bozman He was a part of professional baseball from the 1930s into the 1990s as player, coach, manager and scout. To say Don Gutteridge was a “baseball man” would be an extreme understatement. He played in 2 World Series’ (1944 & 1946) and teamed with such great players as Pepper Martin, Dizzy […]
by Dale B. Smith The Chicago White Sox victory in the 2005 World Series represented a cleansing of sorts. Gone was the curse of the 1919 Black Sox and perhaps no player in baseball heaven could have been more happy to “move on” than Eddie Collins.
by Dale B. Smith James Joseph Dykes was born November 10, 1896 in the City of Brotherly Love. Nearly 80 years later he would die there on June 15, 1976, just days short of the nation’s 200th anniversary. What he did in between those years speaks well of Philadelphia’s native son.
by Max Silberman Eddie Mayo was the 8th oldest living major leaguer when he passed away on November 28th, 2006 at the age of 96.
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