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After streaking out of the gate early in the season, the New York Yankees had cooled off by the time they arrived at Shibe Park on August 11. They won the first two games of the series against the hapless Athletics, including an 18-4 win the previous day. The Athletics’ 36-69 record was almost a […]

The game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers on July 9, 1938, may have gone completely unnoticed, except for the fact that Claude Passeau pitched all 16 innings for the Phillies. Only 1,277 fans showed up for the contest between the eighth-place Phillies and seventh-place Dodgers that had little significance for the two second-division […]

One of just two Philadelphia Athletics to make the 1934 American League All-Star roster, third baseman Mike “Pinky” Higgins was the subject of gossip that offseason that he might be sold to the New York Yankees for as much as $50,000. Owner-manager Connie Mack was peppered with questions about the proposed deal in January 1935 […]

Fans of the Philadelphia Athletics could be excused for being confused when they walked into Shibe Park on August 17, 1934, and wondered which team they should support that day. The opponent for the A’s this day were the Chicago White Sox, and four of the White Sox had recently been wearing the uniform of […]

It was 92 degrees, with humidity that made it feel like triple digits. The suffocating torpor that hovered over Philadelphia was a metaphor for the Athletics’ season and where the franchise was headed. Two years earlier they had won their third straight American League pennant, but by 1933 the splendid Al Simmons was gone, stalwart […]

“There were just seven wonders of the world before this world series broke out and today there are nine,” gushed sportswriter Grantland Rice after the St. Louis Cardinals rode the exploits of Wild Bill and the Wild Horse of the Osage to a convincing 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics to take a three-games-to-two lead […]

Three games into the 1931 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics’ championship run was in jeopardy. Winners of three consecutive American League pennants from 1929 to 1931, the A’s had defeated the Chicago Cubs, four games to one, in the 1929 World Series, and then topped the St. Louis Cardinals in six games in 1930. Facing […]

When the 1931 World Series opened at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis on October 1st, it appeared to be a mere continuation of the regular season. The Philadelphia A’s star pitcher, Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove, rebounded from an early 2-0 deficit to cruise to a 6-2 win for Connie Mack’s team. Grove had outdone himself […]

The Philadelphia Athletics had a veritable lock on first place. A win today, Tuesday, September 15, would produce their 99th victory of the season, a goal reached only five times before in franchise history. The second-place Washington Senators were mathematically still in the hunt. An A’s win coupled with a Senators loss would seal the […]

George Earnshaw “gave an exhibition of pitching mastery that has been seldom equaled in [the] world series,” declared St. Louis sportswriter John E. Wray.1 Pitching on one day’s rest, the Philadelphia Athletics hurler tossed a complete game to win Game Six and capture the club’s second straight title. Lauded as the “the lionhearted leviathan of […]