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The Philadelphia Athletics were on Cloud Nine as they pulled out a come-from-behind victory in 11 innings over the New York Giants in Game Three of the 1911 World Series and led the Series two games to one. As they took the field on October 24, they had been soaring for an entire week, thanks […]

The World Series returned to Philadelphia for the second year in a row in 1911, and 26,286 baseball fans swarmed a wet Shibe Park on October 16, 1911, for Game Two of the 1911 World Series between the New York Giants (99-54) and Philadelphia Athletics (101-50). Despite their losing Game One, 2-1, at the Polo […]

Heading into the 1911 season, the Philadelphia Athletics were a near unanimous choice to capture their second straight American League pennant and fourth in 11 years despite boasting one of the youngest lineups in the circuit. Their average age was a hair younger than 27 with a core that featured 20-year-old Stuffy McInnis at first […]

After Philadelphia defeated the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in Game One of the 1910 World Series behind the three-hit pitching of Chief Bender and bat of Frank “Home Run” Baker, Athletics founder and manager Connie Mack gave the ball to staff ace Jack Coombs. After four pedestrian years in which the Iowa-born right-hander went 35-35 with […]

Skipper Connie Mack was tired of waiting. Eleven days after his Philadelphia Athletics (102-48) played their last regular-season game, they finally took the field for Game One of the World Series.1 The delay was caused by the National League, which had concluded its regular season just two days earlier with the juggernaut Chicago Cubs (104-50) […]

Jack Coombs was in the midst of one of the most spectacular seasons in baseball history as he took the mound against the lowly St. Louis Browns. After posting a pedestrian 35-35 record in his first four seasons, the 27-year-old right-hander for the Philadelphia A’s was leading the majors with 22 wins (against just seven […]

The league-leading Philadelphia Athletics saw their six-game win streak snapped at the hands of the “meek and lowly trailing Browns of St. Louis”1 in a Thursday afternoon game at Shibe Park, the first game in a three-game series. The Browns entered the game with a record of 34-77; this meant that they were 43 games […]

As World War II neared its conclusion in the summer of 1945, an increasing number of major leaguers who had served in the military returned to civilian life and resumed their baseball careers. Hank Greenberg thrilled Tigers fans on July 1 with a home run in his first game back. Bob Feller made a triumphant […]

On the eve of Independence Day 1922, the New York Yankees exploded with 17 hits in a fireworks hitting display against the Philadelphia Athletics. Bob Meusel hit for the cycle, and Babe Ruth and Everett Scott each homered as well, leading the Bronx Bombers to a 12-1 victory at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. Harry Newman of […]

The 1943 All-Star Game was the first one significantly affected by World War II. Fourteen of the 50 players on the roster for the 1942 game were now serving in the military, including Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Tommy Henrich, Phil Rizzuto, Pee Wee Reese, Johnny Mize, Pete Reiser, Terry Moore, and Enos Slaughter. They […]