Shibe Park-Connie Mack Stadium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shibe Park-Connie Mack Stadium write by Rich Westcott. This book was released on 2012. Shibe Park-Connie Mack Stadium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No ballpark in Philadelphia was more revered than the one at Twenty-first Street and Lehigh Avenue. A must-have for fans of Philadelphia and baseball history! Originally called Shibe Park and later Connie Mack Stadium, America's first steel-and concrete stadium opened in 1909. When it closed in 1970, it had earned a special place in the hearts and minds of Philadelphia sports fans. Home of the Athletics for 46 years, the Phillies for 32 and a half seasons, and the Eagles for 18 years, it was also the site of many boxing matches, Negro League baseball games, and college and high school baseball and football games. Over the years, as the area developed, Shibe Park became known for its obstructed views, delicious hot dogs, Sunday curfews, absence of beer, and boobirds. Along with memorable teams and games, the ballpark played host to eight World Series and two All-Star Games. Join Rich Westcott, baseball writer, historian, author and president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers' Association, as he gathers archival photos capturing this legendary stadium's exciting history.
To Every Thing a Season
To Every Thing a Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Every Thing a Season write by Bruce Kuklick. This book was released on 2020-12-08. To Every Thing a Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
Macho Row
Macho Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Macho Row write by William C. Kashatus. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Macho Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable season with an up-close look at the players’ lives, the team’s triumphs and failures, and what made this group so unique and so successful. With a throwback mentality, the team adhered to baseball’s Code. Designed to preserve the moral fabric of the game, the Code’s unwritten rules formed the bedrock of this diehard team whose players paid homage and respect to the game at all times. Trusting one another and avoiding any notions of superstardom, they consistently rubbed the opposition the wrong way and didn’t care. William C. Kashatus pulls back the covers on this old-school band of brothers, depicting the highs and lows and their brash style while also digging into the suspected steroid use of players on the team. Macho Row is a story of winning and losing, success and failure, and the emotional highs and lows that accompany them.
From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium
From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium write by Gregory H Wolf. This book was released on 2022-10-11. From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium evokes memories of the celebrated ballpark through stories of 100 games played there 1909 - 1970, plus several feature essays.
Philadelphia's Old Ballparks
Philadelphia's Old Ballparks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philadelphia's Old Ballparks write by Rich Westcott. This book was released on 1996. Philadelphia's Old Ballparks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philadelphia's rich baseball heritage as seen through its baseball parks is vividly brought to life in this colorful and anecdotal book. Experienced sportswriter Rich Westcott once again dives into a labor of love, taking us back in time to an era when Philadelphia's ballparks were as famous and as much a part of the game as the teams that took the field. Philadelphia's baseball history goes beyond Shibe Park. Philadelphia's Old Ballparksis both a documentary and an oral history, providing detailed descriptions of all of the old professional parks and the many teams that played in them, including Baker Bowl, with its right field wall so close to home plate, it prompted sportswriter Red Smith to quip, "It might be exaggerating to say the outfield wall casts a shadow across the infield. But if the right fielder had eaten onions at lunch, the second baseman knew it." Shibe Park is also well-documented with its idiosyncracies, as are the others. The recollections of dozens of people--players, owners, vendors, ushers, grounds keepers, and fans combine to recreate the world that was held within those walls. Author note: Rich Westcotthas served as a writer and editor on the staffs of a variety of newspapers and magazines in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas during his 35 years in publishing. He is the publisher and editor of Phillies Report.He is the author of six books, including The New Phillies Encyclopedia(Temple), with Frank Bilovsky; Phillies '93, An Incredible Season(Temple); Diamond Greats;and Masters of the Diamond.
