By Dave Jordan Only two big league ballplayers were killed in action in World War II, former A’s player Harry O’Neill on Iwo Jima and former Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon shot down over France.
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 18, 2009 Lou Brissie & Bob Feller Horsham Days Inn - Tribute to our Military Veterans & a triple book signing. The A’s Society was proud to bring together our military heroes of another wartime. May God Bless them all.
SECOND WORLD WAR REMEMBRANCES WITH THE ATHLETICS By Dave Jordan The heroics of World War II were very much in the minds of many in the large crowd which showed up at the Day’s Inn in Horsham on Sunday, October 18. The headliners were Lou Brissie and Hall-of-Famer Bob Feller, both distinguished veterans of that […]
Harry O’Neill grew up with hopes of a Major League career. He fulfilled his goal with the Philadelphia A’s — if for only one inning — before giving his life in service of our country in World War II. By Mike Sielski The Intelligencer/The Bucks County Courier Times, Sunday, July 19, 2009
By Father Jerome Romanowski aka “The Baseball Padre” Nineteen Forty One could have been the year like 1922 when Connie Mack began to build another winning team. Once the team of that era reached a total of 65 wins, it began a gradual ascent to the top of the American League. The Athletics of 1922 […]
by Bob Warrington Introduction Between the first World Series in 1903 and the Athletics departure from Philadelphia after the 1954 season, the A’s and Phillies had over 50 opportunities to play each other in the Fall Classic. They never did, of course, but it’s intriguing to wonder, “How close did Philadelphia ever come to […]
Take a look at amazing array of world war II soldier pictures including Elmer Valo, Feddie Caliguiri, Connie Mack Jr., Benny McCoy, Joe Coleman and many others.
I was born John Robert Savage on December 1, 1921 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Prior to 1939, life was quite normal and I played all sports living in a large neighborhood in Manchester. I would say there were at least 40 to 50 kids in a four square-block area. When I was about nine […]
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