The 2021 Major League Baseball season is at full throttle, as we’re about to reach the end of the first half of the season. The reigning champions Los Angeles Dodgers are still the favorites to lift the Commissioner’s Trophy at the end of the season, despite being currently placed third in the National League West…
Connie Mack Positions: Catcher, First Baseman and Rightfielder Bats: Right • Throws: Right 6-1, 150lb (185cm, 68kg) Born: December 22, 1862 in East Brookfield, MA us Died: February 8, 1956 in Philadelphia, PA Buried: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA Debut: September 11, 1886 (1,151st in major league history) Last Game: August 29, 1896 Hall of Fame: Inducted as Manager in 1937. (Voted by Centennial Committee) Induction ceremony in Cooperstown held in 1939. View Connie…
Interested in exploring FRANCHISING? We will help you through your journey visit us @ www.franchisingconnection.com On June 20, Jack McKeon, who first managed in the major leagues with the Kansas City Royals in 1973, is back at the helm at age 80, taking over the Florida Marlins after the resignation of Edwin Rodriguez. This makes…
Before the Phillies’ home opener, the team dedicates a statue of Connie Mack as part of the Opening Day ceremonies. The eight-foot statue of the ‘Tall Tactician,’ which depicts the A’s long-time owner and manager with one foot in the dugout and one foot on the top step of it, waving his trademark scorecard to position his players, was created by well-known sculptor Harry Rosin. The ‘Tall Tactician’
On May 26, 1956, former Philadelphia A’s star Al Simmons dies at the age of 54, 4 days after his 54th birthday and a year after his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After his playing days ended, Simmons served as a coach for Mack’s Athletics (1945–49) and the Cleveland Indians (1950). In early…
On February 8, 1956, one of baseball’s most prominent figures, Connie Mack, dies at the age of 93 from old age and hip surgery. He was known as “The Tall Tactician” and was baseball’s grand old gentleman for more than a generation. Statuesque, stately, and slim, he clutched a rolled-up scorecard as he sat or…
Southpaw Harry Truman throws out the first ball for the Athletics after their move from Philadelphia to Kansas City April 12,1955. Managers are Lou Boudreau and Bucky Harris for the Tigers and Connie Mack sitting a couple of rows back.
Major league owners vote down the sale of the Philadelphia A’s to a hometown syndicate. A week later the Mack family sells a controlling interest to Arnold Johnson, who will move the team to Kansas City.
At Yankee Stadium, the A’s defeat the Bronx Bombers, 8-6, in the last game the franchise will play representing Philadelphia. Connie Mack’s Athletics, after spending the first 54 years of existence in the City of Brotherly Love, will play in Kansas City next season, after much legal wrangling, under the new ownership of Arnold Johnson.
April 13, 1953 at Crosby Field – Ty Cobb, Al Simmons, Dizzy Dean, Cy Young. Connie Mack, Big Ed Walsh, and Rogers Hornsby. hornsby was managing the Reds at the time. They lost the opener 2-0 to Milwaukee and ended the season 68-86.