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These St. Louis Cardinals were a gang of swaggering roughnecks who deferred to no one, not even the defending world champions. Their preening and trash-talking started even before the World Series began and continued during and after their 5-2 loss in the opener. In Game Two Philadelphia turned to a tall, well-bred gentleman from the […]

To win their second consecutive World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics would have to beat a red-hot St. Louis Cardinals team in the 1930 Series. After being in fourth place, 12 games behind the league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers on the morning of August 9, the Cardinals won 39 of their final 49 games to storm their way […]

The Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox were heading in different directions as September arrived. The 90-45 Athletics were leading the American League by 6½ games, while the Red Sox were struggling in the basement with a 44-86 record. The Athletics had won the 1929 AL pennant by a whopping 18 games over the New […]

It was another dramatic victory or staggering collapse, depending on perspective. After exploding for a World Series-record 10 runs in the seventh inning to win Game Four, the Philadelphia Athletics scored all of their runs in the ninth inning in Game Five to defeat the Chicago Cubs, 3-2, and capture their first championship since 1913 […]

Guy Bush “pitched one of his finest games,” gushed sportswriter Irving Vaughn, following the hurler’s resounding 3-1 victory over the seemingly invincible Philadelphia Athletics. “[He] curved them into complete silence.”1 “The Cubs’ victory started and ended with Guy Bush,” emphatically stated A’s beat writer Stan Baumgartner, as Bush recorded the NL’s first win in the […]

Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s hadn’t won an American League pennant since 1914. But the team was beginning to contend again after finishing in eighth place for seven straight seasons from 1915 through 1921. Beginning with the 1922 season, the 66-year-old Mack, the only manager the A’s had ever had since the franchise debuted as an […]

Something had to give as the league-leading Philadelphia Athletics and their ace, Lefty Grove, took on undefeated hurler George Uhle and the Detroit Tigers. The streaking Athletics had won five games in a row and 16 of 17, to open up a 5½-game lead atop the American League standings, with a 30-9 record. Grove was […]

The climate in the American League was changing. From 1921 to 1927, the New York Yankees claimed five pennants and two world championships. Only the Washington Senators (1924-25) were able to break the Yankees’ stranglehold on the league. The Yankee roster had names that rolled off the tongue and were familiar to baseball fans across […]

Philadelphia is not known the to be coolest place to summer in, and the summer of 1926 was no exception. Temperatures had been rising steadily after a rainy fourth of July and reached 94 degrees on July 9 with a forecast for even warmer weather on July 10.1 The weather was having a tragic effect […]

Howard Ehmke “devastated the Mackmen like a lanky cyclone,” gushed the Philadelphia Inquirer after the Red Sox hurler’s no-hitter against the Athletics, adding “[He was] unquestionably in the fettle in which heroic deeds are born.”1 The Boston Globe described the submariner Ehmke’s gem as a “classy curving performance,” but noted that it was a “tainted […]