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- |Title=Philadelphia Athletics attendance ...ed 62,000 paying admissions, and that the receipts of the games netted the Athletics about $20,000. Wonder if this record has ever been equaled before in baseb586 bytes (82 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
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- |Title=official scorer for the Athletics; reporter for the Philadelphia Press428 bytes (63 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Title=reactions in Philadelphia to the Athletics match |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Unions of Morrisania at Brooklyn 8/19/1867] ...the excitement during Mo1 KB (207 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 15 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics659 bytes (91 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 3 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics644 bytes (90 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 1 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics677 bytes (90 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- |Name=Philadelphia Athletics v Boston Red Stockings on 24 August 1874 |Home Team=Philadelphia Athletics685 bytes (94 words) - 19:39, 6 June 2020
- |Title=early rumor of the Philadelphia Club; dissatisfied members of the Athletics ...he Athletic in any way whatever, we do not see, as we have often said, why Philadelphia cannot support two first-class clubs.</p>771 bytes (122 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics use a Philadelphia Club player as a substitute |Text=<p>[Chicago vs. Athletic 6/6/1876] The Athletics, who were weakened by Eggler’s continued illness, played in his stead War381 bytes (52 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics players1 KB (144 words) - 18:59, 6 June 2020
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- |Title=Sharsig managing the Athletics ...d be addressed to Wm. Sharsig, southeast corner of Sixth and Pine streets, Philadelphia, Pa.</p>561 bytes (82 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Olympics and Athletics at Oakdale; Horace Phillips managing ...tics should be addressed to H. B. Phillips, manager, 258 No. Ninth street, Philadelphia.</p>533 bytes (77 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Source Image=1865-game Philadelphia.jpg |Title=1865 game Philadelphia413 bytes (49 words) - 12:45, 25 June 2023
- |Title=the Gettysburg campaign and Philadelphia ballplayers ...Captain D.W.C. Moore. Our word for it, they’ll take the Rebs on the fly. Philadelphia City Item July 11, 1863</p>1 KB (169 words) - 18:22, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics use a Philadelphia Club player as a substitute |Text=<p>[Chicago vs. Athletic 6/6/1876] The Athletics, who were weakened by Eggler’s continued illness, played in his stead War381 bytes (52 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Atlantics and the Athletics play on short notice ...he most skillful, the best contested, and the most exciting ever played in Philadelphia.</p>1 KB (209 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics refuse to play the Eckfords ...any of these three hundred getting their money back! The Eckfords say the Athletics treated them very differently when they were here before. We guess so!</p>532 bytes (83 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics' new ground |Text=<p>The Athletics have nearly finished their neat Club House, upon their new and beautiful gr325 bytes (47 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 1 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics677 bytes (90 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- ...ted Cuthbert from making a catch in the only inning in which they scored. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 22, 1869 [The final score was 107-2.]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury672 bytes (101 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics ease up on the Olympics ...ntest more equal in its character, Wilkins, short-stop, taking his place. Philadelphia City Item December 2, 1865 [the score was 38-1 after two innings, final sco487 bytes (70 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Fitzgerald expelled from the Athletics ...rious D.B. was too small game for the Athletics to crack at. However, the Athletics but seconded what their friends long since demanded. The resolutions are w2 KB (264 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...y standing behind the catcher, a passed ball struck his person, losing the Athletics one if not two runs, as a man was at third and another at second. His umpi |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch571 bytes (84 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=prospects of the Athletics remaining in the NL ...honest nine, and made the arrangement to pay their present indebtedness. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury November 19, 1876</p>785 bytes (122 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- ...troublesome curves, with the fine support given him in the field, gave the Athletics a creditable victory. Caperoon is engaged for the season to pitch for the |Source=Philadelphia Item550 bytes (78 words) - 19:05, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Philadelphia Athletics attendance ...ed 62,000 paying admissions, and that the receipts of the games netted the Athletics about $20,000. Wonder if this record has ever been equaled before in baseb586 bytes (82 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the new Athletics president ...delphia, incorporator of the National Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Philadelphia, etc.]</p>1 KB (165 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=why Pratt left the Athletics ...assistance... It was this that led Pratt to sever his connection with the Athletics.</p>364 bytes (54 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics players1 KB (144 words) - 18:59, 6 June 2020
- |Title=Al Reach the Athletics manager ...h Commodore James M. Ferguson as president, and Al Reach as manager of the Athletics, we predict a brilliant season for them.</p>336 bytes (49 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...the score by which the Atlantics would be defeated, for the success of the Athletics was regarded apparently as a foregone conclusion.</p>926 bytes (153 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 3 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics644 bytes (90 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- ...fine play in Milwaukee. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury 1877, date uncertain, Athletics scrapbook, Baseball Hall of Fame.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury828 bytes (132 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...were stolen and run off with by the numerous urchins outside the ground. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 22, 1869</p> ...th innings, not without, however, a little luck, secured an easy victory. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 22, 1869</p>1 KB (182 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...ics... punished the “boy pitcher” [i.e. Cummings] for five runs... ... The Athletics punished the “phenomenon” in the next innings for five more earned runs |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury427 bytes (57 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Philadelphia Athletics v Boston Red Stockings on 24 August 1874 |Home Team=Philadelphia Athletics685 bytes (94 words) - 19:39, 6 June 2020
- ...laying on account of sickness. Pratt is legally entitled to play with the Athletics, and will strengthen them both in the pitcher’s position and at third bas643 bytes (101 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...68] Both clubs were nervous and uncertain up to the sixth inning, when the Athletics went in pluckily, struck out resolutely from the shoulder, and stopped not |Source=Philadelphia City Item426 bytes (62 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...phia Sunday Mercury January 15, 1871 [in a historical retrospective of the Athletics]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury577 bytes (84 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics can't get up a nine for an exhibition game |Text=<p>The Athletics failed to go to Harrisburg last Monday, as announced, but seven of the nine399 bytes (62 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- ...West Chester, pa., where the second game will begin at noon. Returning to Philadelphia, the contestants will commence operations again at 4 P.M. New York Clipper ...hat day, and will play at West Chester in the morning and at Oakdale Park, Philadelphia, in the afternoon. New York Clipper July 2, 1881</p>872 bytes (143 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=foul balls from the Athletics ground |Text=<p>What a pity the Athletics cannot arrange to have the foul balls returned from Wagner’s lot a little418 bytes (67 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...the second-nine match was over and the Eckfords had had their dinner, the Athletics were to send their stage for the first-nine, provided the ground was in ord ...ed with their programme. On Tuesday the weather admitted of play, and the Athletics having lost their day, the Keystones took their friends in hand... Ball Pl2 KB (256 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...he latter firmly decline to receive. It appears that the new fence of the Athletics cost $1024, and it is demanded by the officers of the club that the Atlanti |Source=Philadelphia City Item1 KB (189 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...delphias got 6 hits, the Athletics 16; 1 Philadelphia batter struck out, 2 Athletics; 1 each took first on wides, no bases on balls; Phillies had 3 batters got |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item1 KB (157 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics ground superintendent |Text=<p>The Athletics of Philadelphia have secured a lease of the old ground at Twenty-sixth and Jefferson street449 bytes (67 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics' attendance, finances; grandstand ratio |Text=<p>Philadelphia is a great base ball town. The Athletics have drawn 71,600 people in the last sixteen games and the receipts includi717 bytes (100 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics arguing about choice of umpire ...t Philadelphia club was chosen. The best way to stop this disputing about Philadelphia umpires, is to leave the Athletic Club out of the list of clubs to be playe992 bytes (163 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=ruffians running the Philadelphia Club ...n commenting on the Philadelphia and Mutual match assemblage, says that in Philadelphia baseball among the professionals “is now in the hands of low-browed ruffi1 KB (235 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the reason for the new pitching rules; the state of the Athletics ...r. Why is it that more than two hundred gentlemen have withdrawn from the Athletics since last season? Is the old club to be destroyed?</p>888 bytes (150 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=are the Athletics professionals? ...ionals, and so accorded them; but never once offensively. So much for the Athletics being professionals.</p>886 bytes (142 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...made brilliant record for himself. [Lomas was the regular pitcher for the Philadelphia Club.]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item401 bytes (54 words) - 19:05, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 15 August 1874 |Away Team=Philadelphia Athletics659 bytes (91 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- |Name=Boston Red Sox v Philadephis Athletics on 30 July 1874 |Away Team=Philadephis Athletics721 bytes (98 words) - 22:40, 22 September 2014
- |Title=Phillies sweep the spring exhibitions against the Athletics ...delphias yesterday succeeded in winning the seventh straight game from the Athletics, thus taking the entire spring series for the local championship. This gam573 bytes (90 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a member of the Athletics President of the School Board |Text=<p>Frank Greiner, one of the old members of the Athletics, which he joined ten years ago, has been honored by his constituents of the547 bytes (85 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...e lost one of their strongest and best men, whose place they cannot fill. Philadelphia City Item September 1, 1866</p> <p>Now that Pratt has retired from the Athletics, we may be permitted to state that he was one of the four in the nine who p1,004 bytes (168 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a possible presidential candidate and the Athletics ...two of the boys would poll for him in remembrance of his wife’s courtesy. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 14, 1868 [George H. Pendleton was the Democratic nomine892 bytes (141 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics expelled from the League ...eed to report to the League a resolution recommending the expulsion of the Athletics and Mutuals.</p>2 KB (336 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Mauch Chunk Base Ball Club v Athletic Club of Philadelphia on 14 November 1860 |Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Philadelphia#date1860-11-142 KB (390 words) - 14:59, 18 December 2015
- |Title=the Athletics shut down operations ...t half-past three o’clock precisely, on business of vital importance. The Athletics will not play any more this year, and their season may now be considered cl661 bytes (101 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the organization of the Athletics; matches now arranged by the players ...e of chronicling a brilliant and uninterrupted series of victories for the Athletics such as have marked their career in former years.</p>1 KB (202 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...lphias, and leading many to believe that there was something “wrong.” [The Athletics won.]</p>538 bytes (82 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=choosing between the two Philadelphia clubs ...as decided to admit Chas. Fulmer as the representative of the Athletics of Philadelphia, and not recognize H. B. Philips club.</p>755 bytes (114 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...al vs. Athletic 6/8/1872] McGeary then accomplished one of his favorite . Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch June 9, 1872</p> ...using fair foul hit by Fisler brought Meyerle home, West taking one base. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch June 30, 1872</p>485 bytes (64 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- ...z.: --Ten Men and Ten Innings. When Col. Fitzgerald retired from B.B. the Athletics stood undisputably at the head for good play and good conduct.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item920 bytes (147 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...uence, and they will receive a greeting from the clubs of Philadelphia–the Athletics, Camdens, Keystones, and Olympics–which will do their hearts and stomachs |Source=Philadelphia City Item572 bytes (79 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...Suffolk, of Boston, are the principal members; also the Fall River Club. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury April 30, 1876</p> ...r first game this season with the professional Quicksteps of that city... Philadelphia Sunday Mercury April 30, 1876</p>674 bytes (97 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Harrison Park in Philadelphia ...ene of an interesting contest on the afternoon of Friday last, between the Athletics and the Park Nine, the latter being an organization of picked players from515 bytes (76 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics in Harrisburg meet the governor ...” The Tyroleans, of Harrisburg, were also anxious to have a bout with the Athletics. Both clubs being willing, soon came to a mutual understanding, and the ma1 KB (211 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- .... If the Umpire had enforced the amended rule in respect to pitching, the Athletics would have been nowhere. This rule takes from the Umpire all discretionary |Source=Philadelphia City Item643 bytes (102 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...umstances, came here [Philadelphia] to-day to play the fifth game with the Athletics.</p>1 KB (169 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics trounced by League clubs, disband early ...rs against League teams was the cause of the move. … The attendance at the Athletics' games with League clubs has grown steadily less, and yesterday only about650 bytes (100 words) - 19:50, 29 February 2020
- ...decided by the Cincinnatis agreeing to play with the ball furnished by the Athletics, as it always has been the custom for the club on whose ground a match is p |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury921 bytes (154 words) - 08:23, 8 December 2021
- ...hletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] At the end of the fifth inning [with the Athletics ahead 14-10] the gamblers thought it advisable to inform their friends in N |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury627 bytes (96 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Athletic Club of Philadelphia v Pennsylvania Club of Philadelphia on 15 September 1860 |Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Philadelphia#date1860-9-15942 bytes (139 words) - 18:58, 10 December 2015
- ...ged by his arduous business labors to withdraw from the Presidency of [the Athletics]. ..., citing undated The People, New York</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item455 bytes (67 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the revival of baseball in Philadelphia ...they had bragged about being the first to revive the Base Ball interest in Philadelphia? Stick to that sentiment, gentlemen, for it is a good one, and don't back1 KB (197 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...>[Philadelphia vs. Quickstep of Wilmington 10/20/1875] Dave Eggler, of the Athletics, umpired impartially, but received nothing but abuse from the Wilmington � |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury487 bytes (69 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...to that effect was entered into prior to the playing of the first game in Philadelphia. The following document was drawn up and signed on the grounds yesterday, <p>We, the undersigned, of the Atlantic and Athletic Clubs, of Brooklyn and Philadelphia, do hereby agree that the first series shall be played as practice games.2 KB (354 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ssed, and we are sure they were in no way complimentary to the Professor. Philadelphia Press August 11, 1865</p> ..., and which it is stated has been done on a number of similar occasions. Philadelphia Inquirer August 11, 1865</p>2 KB (386 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...ng generally use such balls in matches, in hopes to equalize the batting. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 4, 1868</p> ...own use which was devoid of elasticity, the wonder was not so great. The Athletics discovered the trick before the game commenced and refused to play with the2 KB (268 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...scenes of disorder. Philadelphia City Item October 13, 1866 [quoting the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch]</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item1 KB (213 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=improvements needed to the Athletics ground ...e him the authority to make the improvements so sadly felt. What say you, Athletics?</p>1 KB (179 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the membership of the Excelsiors and the Athletics ...ty already count over two hundred and fifty members while the Athletics of Philadelphia number something like a thousand. Brooklyn Eagle May 4, 1866</p>719 bytes (107 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...against them in the early part of the season, and by refusing to play the Athletics only when it suited their convenience, put them to much pecuniary loss.. I |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury705 bytes (112 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=AA holds to the fifty cent admission, grants Athletics the reduced rate ...e thirty per cent of the quarter of a dollar at Philadelphia, and when the Athletics play abroad they will receive but seven and a half cents on each admission,1 KB (188 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...s having the curve down fine, and is said to trouble the best of batters. Philadelphia Item June 27, 1877</p> ...the ball outward and changes his pace, having great command of the ball. Philadelphia Item July 3, 1877</p>854 bytes (134 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Philadelphia croakers ..., aint you, to lose the Rochester game?” and similar expressions. This is Philadelphia all over. The players, themselves, felt bad enough, and did not need a rem833 bytes (129 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...Moore, Siner, Eills, Doerr, and Deetz. They will play at Harrison Park. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 13, 1871</p> ...n of his merits by attending what promises to be a very interesting game. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 20, 1871.</p>2 KB (261 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...the case, his conduct cannot be too severely censured in thus leaving the Athletics in the “lurch.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury654 bytes (106 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...was entirely too lenient in the two preceding games, and McMullin, of the Athletics, was consequently selected to fill that position, and his strict interpreta |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury561 bytes (81 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=The Lancaster Club the Athletics reserves ...procured. Among the players will be the reserve club of the Athletics of Philadelphia.</p>1 KB (184 words) - 19:50, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Fitzgerald and the Athletics reconcile ...during the past few years between Colonel Fitzgerald and the Athletics, of Philadelphia, has become thing of “the dead past.” Those who had the pleasure of w775 bytes (125 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Title=umpiring in Philadelphia ...cs have descended. It shows, too, that any man daring to umpire a game in Philadelphia against the interests of the Athletic Club runs the risk of being brutally2 KB (425 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[see for Athletics vs. Thatchers Minstrels, Simmons captain and first base.]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item262 bytes (36 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=early rumor of the Philadelphia Club; dissatisfied members of the Athletics ...he Athletic in any way whatever, we do not see, as we have often said, why Philadelphia cannot support two first-class clubs.</p>771 bytes (122 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...bs will likely make an extended Southern tour in the month of March next. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 7, 1872</p> ...of the heavy expenses attendant upon such a tour, the idea was abandoned. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 28, 1872</p>707 bytes (108 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Athletic Jr. Club of Philadelphia |Club Name=Athletics899 bytes (127 words) - 06:29, 26 December 2021
- ...s told the Umpire that he had made a mistake, if such it could be called. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury May 26, 1872</p> ...surprise. He took a back seat, however, when the decision was announced. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch June 2, 1872, quoting the Clipper</p>1 KB (199 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- ...tics at Philadelphia, A–after receiving score by telegraph–bets B that the Athletics would win the game. B accepts the bet and puts up money, then accuses A of775 bytes (129 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Clapp refused to play with the Athletics, claims he was released |Text=<p>[Chicago vs. Athletic 10/15/1875] Clapp refused to play with the Athletics, although able, claiming that he had been released... New York Sunday Merc593 bytes (88 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...ying in the place of Meyerle, who is still unable to take part in a game. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 6, 1871</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (160 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The professional Athletics of Philadelphia will have a strong amateur nine this season to recruit their ranks from.</p304 bytes (44 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...tional pastime. Philadelphia City Item October 3, 1868 [see also obituary Philadelphia Sunday Mercury 10/4/1868]</p> ...nd was well known to the press throughout the country. He accompanied the Athletics on their western trip, as the special correspondent of the Clipper, and his967 bytes (147 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The Athletics of Philadelphia have disbanded. They were very successful financially, the profits of the323 bytes (41 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Lip Pike leaves the Athletics ...m, we feel confident, that we have been right throughout our controversy. Philadelphia City Item November 3, 1866</p>1 KB (242 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...Philadelphia vs. Athletic 5/29/1875] After the game somebody said that the Athletics threw off! That Force “weakened” on purpose–that Clapp was not on hi |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item687 bytes (111 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Reach chosen as Athletics manager; then steps aside ...rantee us in saying that no one is more capable of filling that position. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 16, 1876</p>1 KB (205 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...hletics,) on the Union Ground, the Atlantics to receive all the proceeds. Philadelphia City Item September 14, 1867</p>1 KB (200 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Ward, the new pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, has a parabolic-hyperborean-double-complicated-convex curve which is prono329 bytes (39 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the improved Athletics grounds |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury337 bytes (45 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=how the Athletics would play country clubs ...e interior of the Keystone State during the past two seasons, in which the Athletics used to stand at the bat until all hands were tired of putting in the big l829 bytes (136 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Philadelphia vs. Athletic 7/4/1874] The Athletics were blanked [in the seventh innning], Cummings pitching with more speed, h |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch642 bytes (98 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=reactions in Philadelphia to the Athletics match |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Unions of Morrisania at Brooklyn 8/19/1867] ...the excitement during Mo1 KB (207 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...e Athletics showing nearly $2,000 profit, the Bostons over $3,000, and the Philadelphia Club over $5,000. The Baltimores did not come out of the campaign so succe751 bytes (111 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- ...e 9, 1864 reports that the "Camden Club" is playing the Athletics today in Philadelphia. Same, July 19, 1865 mentions a National Club of Camden.</p> <p>Camden NJ is about 5 miles E of Philadelphia.</p>1,016 bytes (154 words) - 09:29, 26 November 2020
- ...the Unions, of Morrisania, play a second match with the Athletics, and the Athletics are vanquished by a score of 42 to 29. We confess that we cannot understan ...to win, this game would have closed the series, but by the success of the Athletics another profitable match would be afforded them, there are hundreds who wil2 KB (434 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...consent thereto. In regard to the admission of the Philadelphia Club the Athletics would also have been over-ruled, as the remaining seven clubs were unanimou |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (221 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics' business manager |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury336 bytes (44 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=organizing the Philadelphia Club ...of the Athletics, Frank McBride occupying the chair, and after selecting “Philadelphia” as the name of the new organization, the meeting adjourned until tomorro2 KB (340 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ers in position during the action of the game between the Philadelphia and Athletics on the 16th. This photograph will include all the advertising signs. Don' |Source=Philadelphia Item663 bytes (101 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...Minstrels, of Philadelphia, and will hereafter devote his attention to the Athletics.</p>352 bytes (47 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Forest City of Cleveland 6/24/1868] Three o’clock saw the boys pitchi |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury327 bytes (44 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...League will repay them by playing with them after the season is over. The Athletics very properly refuse to accede to this. They have all the games they can p |Source=Philadelphia Item2 KB (287 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Athletic Club of Philadelphia v Union Club of Morrisania on 27 October 1866 |City=Philadelphia996 bytes (138 words) - 14:59, 7 July 2020
- ...] Sunley, their regular pitcher, who delivers , was easily punished by the Athletics...</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch315 bytes (42 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Would-Be Club of Philadelphia |City=Philadelphia743 bytes (106 words) - 05:48, 1 January 2022
- ...at we would like to say. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch September 28, 1873 [Athletics won 10-6.]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch622 bytes (94 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] Berry, first striker, hit a “liner,” handsomely taken by Pea |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury311 bytes (42 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...s, took place on the Athletic grounds, on 15th Street and Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, on Monday, Aug. 31st, in the presence of an immense assemblage of spectato750 bytes (108 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Philadelphia Claims Best 1870 US Record -- Over the Red Stockings? Really? ...Mutuals of New York city won the national championship last year, but the Athletics of this city had the best record. . . ."</p>2 KB (303 words) - 11:39, 10 April 2021
- |Title=the Athletics receive offers of positions in the west |Text=<p>The boys ever kept uppermost in their thoughts the good name of Philadelphia, and the honor of the game itself. It had been currently reported through825 bytes (128 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...his ground for fourteen successive seasons, sharing it in company with the Athletics from 1871 to 1877, inclusive, and also with the Philadelphias in 1873, ‘71 KB (212 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Throwing the Game.--The Philadelphia Telegraph accuses the Athletics of allowing the Reds to win the game. That's good, to say the least of it.340 bytes (51 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ords and an expectant crowd of spectators were awaiting the arrival of the Athletics, when a telegram came stating that they could not play on account of three |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury866 bytes (143 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics should have purchased their own ground ...ignorant, indeed, that they could not see nor understand what we meant. Philadelphia All-Day City Item November 16, 1874 [N.B.–Fitzgerald did in fact make thi700 bytes (109 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized ...pson is given all the privileges outside of the gate receipts whenever the Athletics play there.</p>2 KB (246 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a resume of the Athletics' history and prospects ...first club in America. When Mr. Fitzgerald accepted the Presidency of the Athletics the club consisted of but three or four individuals. It had neither men, m1 KB (209 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>It is said that the Athletics paid $500 to Cleveland for Bradley's release. Third-basemen come high, but |Source=Philadelphia Item351 bytes (49 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...it to the Mauch Chunk base ball boys...upon reaching (the play-ground, the Athletics were surprised to find the ground staked off for the 'Massachusetts game'..872 bytes (131 words) - 19:06, 14 October 2015
- ...aimed that it was as fair for one as the other. This is not the case; the Athletics, or at least some of them, are renowned for their heavy batting. A rule of |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury899 bytes (146 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...Athletics and Keystone Clubs. This is a good idea, and will work well in Philadelphia, where, as there are so few senior clubs, it is necessary that they should |Source=Philadelphia City Item738 bytes (127 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics and Eckfords sharing Fisler and Reach? ...iation, and consequently will exclude Fisler and Theodore Bomeisler of the Philadelphia clubs playing in the Eckford and Eureka games, and likewise Reach from the762 bytes (120 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ..., covered the ground about the bases with sawdust, the game began with the Athletics at the bat.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item382 bytes (55 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...e crowd had mentally inventoried the beauties of the ground, rand and the Athletics came out on the field, receiving a perfect ovation.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item371 bytes (54 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...mbers of the United Club, a young organization which consolidated with the Athletics in 1862.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury385 bytes (57 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...ould not play with the Atlantics, the betting veered around to even on the Athletics.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury940 bytes (148 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...comparison with that of the more youthful, but rather overrated Cummings. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 22, 1871</p> ...lub. At the bat he is very weak, and this point is an important element. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch October 22, 1871</p>2 KB (250 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Boston vs. Athletic 8/7/1871] The Athletics were early on the ground, a trifle of exercise being sufficient to warm the |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch321 bytes (45 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=negotiations for Von der Ahe to buy into the Athletics; Athletics ownership, value ...y to dispose of it unless they get what they consider its full value. The Philadelphia Times June 12, 1887</p>2 KB (283 words) - 20:15, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletic vs. Olympic of Pittsburgh 6/1/1868] The Athletics, on their arrival, found the Olympic boys practicing at the old fashion of |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury363 bytes (50 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...couple of thousand dollars the match would probably have netted. But the Athletics are not running a circus; they did not have a puff writer with them, puffin |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury2 KB (268 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
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- ...he Keystones give their men $20 per week, and soon they will rank with the Athletics, Atlantics, Mutuals, etc. Come, Mr. Lynch, down with the dust! Bring back |Source=Philadelphia City Item1 KB (169 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...the holder of a season ticket–say the Athletic–have a certain seat in the Athletics pavilion set aside for him? And is said seat his exclusively all season? ...e beginning of the season it was agreed upon between the Philadelphias and Athletics that their “members’” tickets should be “good” on their days, or933 bytes (155 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...o the bases on called balls–Harry Wright being given his base four times. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch September 10, 1871</p> ...one base on called ball, and that off the very wild pitching if Zettlein. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 24, 1871</p>977 bytes (146 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...g “slow” in order to allow the Riversides a chance tor un up their score. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 22, 1869 [final score 69-7]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury672 bytes (99 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Mansfields vs. Athletics 7/31/1872] Brainard followed with what he considered a clean hit to right f |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch393 bytes (57 words) - 18:41, 29 February 2020
- ...day. He made himself popular here and from a poor boy grew up into one of Philadelphia's leading merchants.+</p>2 KB (324 words) - 20:29, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Athletic Club of Philadelphia v Atlantic Club of New York on 22 October 1866 |City=Philadelphia996 bytes (142 words) - 14:59, 7 July 2020
- ...e this contest, and it should take place. Let the Pythians begin with the Athletics, then the Keystones, next the Olympics, then the City Item, and keep on unt ...aid to play the Pythians. This is merely one of the slanders to which the Athletics are exposed. They are not afraid to play any club in the country, and they3 KB (476 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>McBride signed last year to play with the Athletics this season. He is therefore a member of the nine, and has not been releas |Source=Philadelphia Item397 bytes (64 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Woods attempts to distract the Athletics ...dent of the White Stockings, induced them to desist and the game went on. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 11, 1871</p>3 KB (482 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...ble charity. Such an encounter would attract twenty thousand spectators. Philadelphia Press October 26, 1865</p> ...crowd is looked for. Admission ten cents—ladies free,--not 25 cts, as in Philadelphia. Brooklyn Eagle October 31, 1865</p>1 KB (168 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...timore 8/22/1874] The pitching of Matthews and Fisher was so wild that the Athletics, with a strict umpire, would have more than a dozen bases on called balls. |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury405 bytes (61 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...stock be reserved, and not be offered for sale until ordered by the club. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 20, 1876</p> ...likely that these few remaining shares of stock will be left long unsold. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury March 5, 1876</p>3 KB (567 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- .... The closing contest on the ground took place Oct. 29, 1877, between the Athletics and an amateur club canned the United. New York Clipper February 25, 1882<1 KB (214 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...ce. This sort of play will risk the success of every important game. The Athletics did not seem to have much trouble in hitting his balls, getting 13 clean hi |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item718 bytes (114 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...c and Athletic Clubs, the two representative organizations of Brooklyn and Philadelphia.</p>485 bytes (68 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...e club, for the purpose of giving the old world a taste of Base Ball. The Athletics would like to meet the Atlantics, or any other first class organization, in |Source=Philadelphia City Item931 bytes (150 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...time, but, failing to get a ball to suit, went to first on called balls. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch April 28, 1872</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch923 bytes (141 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Fitzgerald makes a formal charge of the Athletics paying professionals ...er 6, from Thomas Fitzgerald, Philadelphia, charging the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, with paying certain members to play ball, the persons so paid being Pike,918 bytes (133 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Charles Fulmer, the manager and captain of the Athletics of Philadelphia, Pa., and one of the recently appointed League umpires, is now managing the470 bytes (68 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...ew York to live. The Athletics will open a club room over Reach’s store. Philadelphia City Item February 13, 1869</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item754 bytes (124 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] Pearce, the first striker of the Atlantics, took |Source=Philadelphia City Item402 bytes (59 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |City=Philadelphia ...(Philadelphia) will be visited by a number of ball clubs during fall...the Athletics themselves will visit Baltimore, Washington, Altoona, Princeton, and Salem.1 KB (150 words) - 04:30, 1 October 2016
- |Title=official scorer for the Athletics; reporter for the Philadelphia Press428 bytes (63 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...phia 4/13/1889] The Philadelphias had out their strongest team, while the Athletics were weakened by placing in Smith and Brennan as the battery. … Manager S |Source=Philadelphia Item850 bytes (129 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- .... Pratt also wanted an umbrella, but there was not one on the ground. The Philadelphia Times July 5, 1885</p> |Source=Philadelphia Times760 bytes (115 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...ence of starting on the Boston trip. McBride pitched slow, or the result [Athletics winning 19-11] would have been rather different.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Republic455 bytes (63 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...agrined at seeing McVey run home. This ruse was tried twice before on the Athletics by the Bostons, and we think that it is about time that the former club sho |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (186 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...hampionship–the Athletics having won the three first games of the series. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 10, 1871</p>1 KB (180 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=reporter for the Item; official scorer for the Athletics |Text=<p>John Campbell, editor-in-chief and base ball man of the Philadelphia Item, has resigned from that paper. He was overworked and wanted a rest.462 bytes (69 words) - 19:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a resume of the history of the Athletics ...ing with the Athletic. This infused new life into the club, and by it the Athletics obtained Mr. Isaac Wilkins, the present short stop of the club, together wi2 KB (355 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics vote on whether to continue their tour |Text=<p>[the Athletics approaching the end of their western tour] ...on the ride from Cleveland to1 KB (184 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=McKnight calls for the Athletics' expulsion ...cretary Williams. Upon this charge McKnight demanded the expulsion of the Athletics from the Association. After fuming and fretting about for a half hour like2 KB (306 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- ...who never does things by halves; and can’t he talk a club up, though. The Athletics certainly made a mess of it when they let him be over-run by new men.</p>1 KB (195 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Not long ago it was understood that the Athletics had given Matthews a promise that when his days of usefulness as a pitcher |Source=Philadelphia Times526 bytes (86 words) - 20:12, 29 February 2020
- ...bby matthews, who is now pitchign such a great game with the Athletics, of Philadelphia, occupied the box for one of the Queen City's Jonah nines, several years ag471 bytes (74 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] McDonald made a terrific hit to right field, which just touched |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury407 bytes (62 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Title=excitement about the Atlantics-Athletics match ...tness the return match between the above named rival clubs of Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Any one visiting Brooklyn yesterday between the hours of twelve and two w2 KB (320 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...afternoon on the Star Grounds between the Athletics, a non-league club, of Philadelphia, and the Buckeyes, of this city. The day was beautiful, and the grounds we ...cs will return, and several very interesting games may be looked for. The Athletics are a fine looking and manly set of fellows, and aside from their good play2 KB (357 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>This club [the Athletics of Philadelphia] have already in hand the laying out of the programme of their spring campa606 bytes (96 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...at the Haymakers, who behaved like gentlemen under the unjust infliction. Philadelphia City Item September 11, 1869</p> ...e contest; but ultimately better counsel prevailed, and the game went on. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 12, 1869</p>2 KB (360 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] Among the reporters present from New York were–Messrs. Chadwic |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury486 bytes (71 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...e the other. [from a letter from Harry Wright to Frederick Long written in Philadelphia May 18, 1874]</p> |Source=from a letter from Harry Wright to Frederick Long written in Philadelphia817 bytes (134 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Horace Phillips gone from the Athletics; cushioned chairs |Source=Philadelphia Item624 bytes (92 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics' trophy case |Source=Philadelphia Item423 bytes (66 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- ...e terms of which the Players' League club shall assume the position of the Athletics in the American Association.</p>498 bytes (76 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] [Al Reach] was badly injured in one of his finger |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury492 bytes (71 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...g to itself the title of being “the only unprejudiced base ball journal in Philadelphia,” and it is therefore because it describes itself as unprejudiced that we ...k city... [It goes on to quote at length the NY Dispatch pice of 7/21/72.] Philadelphia Sunday Mercury July 28, 1872</p>1 KB (188 words) - 18:41, 29 February 2020
- ...week. The Players' League will start with clubs only in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Chicago.</p>1 KB (210 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>In the afternoon they [the Athletics] drove out to the ground, which is pleasantly located on the outskirts of t |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury516 bytes (81 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...nd are regarded, in the City of Fraternal Affection, as second only to the Athletics. ... Notwithstanding the prestige attaching to their performances, however580 bytes (79 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...think–of heartily applauding visitors, and that too when victorious. The Athletics were loudly huzzared [sic] by the Buckeye and Cincinnati players at the con |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury598 bytes (91 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...ld in Pittsburg Oct. 10 to consider the formation of the new association. Philadelphia, Boston, and this city have been invited to cooperating in the plan, and th ...entirely distinct from the League meets with considerable favor. The Item Philadelphia September 18, 1881</p>1 KB (218 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Minerva Base Ball Club of Philadelphia |City=Philadelphia2 KB (319 words) - 06:02, 24 February 2024
- ...benefit for the Chicago Club, with mixed sides, Cummings pitching for the Athletics] Cummings appeared...looking anything but like a professional, in the hands |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch552 bytes (78 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...ine meeting the Athletics until after they have played the Atlantics. The Athletics and Atlantics are the only tow first-class clubs in the country, who have a |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (219 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Equity Club of Philadelphia v Athletic Club of Philadelphia on 12 November 1860 |Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Philadelphia#date1860-11-122 KB (248 words) - 09:01, 18 January 2024
- |Title=Thomas Fitzgerald presides at the Athletics' championship celebration ...an d concluded one of the most remarkable demonstrations in the history of Philadelphia, and one unprecedented in the annals of the game.</p>946 bytes (143 words) - 19:50, 29 February 2020
- ...sition to postpone, and that indefinitely, and so notified the Atlantics. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 29, 1867</p> ...phians, how could they do this in view of the recent decided defeat of the Athletics on the Union grounds in a home-and-home match. Start’s sore hand did not3 KB (446 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ..., however, that they are only anxious to settle the trouble to benefit the Philadelphia and Metropolitan Clubs. Both the latter clubs will have very few games whi |Source=Philadelphia Times1 KB (246 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The officers of the Athletics, before the recent match [with the Atlantics 10/22/86], announced that they |Source=Philadelphia City Item597 bytes (90 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...are very cautious as to their acts, but attempt faintly to justify them. Philadelphia Sunday Republic July 19, 1874 [Note: Boston won 7-6.]</p> ...oubtful point, and some about which there was no question, in favor of the Athletics, but that was no reason why the crowd should have taken up the matter and w3 KB (490 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Atlantics got Pratt back, agreed to play the Athletics |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury501 bytes (77 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...d have nothing to do with Radcliffe. Suffice it to say, that he is now in Philadelphia. Report states that Hatfield did the same thing with the Cincinnati Club b1 KB (176 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...the League batsmen found his peculiar, slow ball very hard to hit... The Philadelphia Times April 13, 1886</p> ...and in curve, and the hits that followed were few and well scattered. The Philadelphia Times May 23, 1886</p>1 KB (246 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Harvard vs. Athletic 7/8/1869] On the sixth inning the Athletics, who appear to have conscientious scruples against changing a pitcher in th |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury507 bytes (76 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...esies, we have not a word to say. But the treatment of the friends of the Athletics we do complain of. At every game the Atlantics have played on the Athletic |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (206 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |City=Philadelphia |Description=<p>Shiffert, "Base Ball in Philadelphia" says the Olympic Club (1857) and later the Minerva used these grounds, and2 KB (343 words) - 06:44, 20 January 2024
- ...benefit for the Chicago Club, with mixed sides, Cummings pitching for the Athletics] Ferguson fell in this inning [seventh] and damaged a portion of his breech |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch563 bytes (82 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Eurekas of Newark 8/27/1866] It was remarked by all that the fence in t |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury569 bytes (87 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Thomas Fitzgerald presides over the welcome banquet for the Athletics ...other speeches, and the party borke up at about 1 o'clock in the morning. Philadelphia Record October 2, 1883 [from a long article about the reception parade and959 bytes (142 words) - 19:50, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] We repaired to the reporters’ stand, where we f |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury584 bytes (87 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...dge its rebound. The out-field is also very uneven and full of ruts. The Athletics provide the ball, and a very dead one will perhaps counterbalance any advan ...that the ball sometimes bounded ten or fifteen feet in the air at a time. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury May 26, 1872</p>1 KB (223 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Anson has been reengaged by the Athletics for the seasons of 1877 and 1878, playing in Chicago this season. Anson, b |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury571 bytes (88 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the financial condition of the Athletics 2 |Source=Philadelphia Item639 bytes (98 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- ...Fisler–were in such disabled condition that it would be impossible for the Athletics to play the Baltimores according to announcement, and placards announcing t623 bytes (93 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- <p>Manager Lew Simmons, of the Athletics, offers a $20 gold piece to every man who knocks a ball over the fence at O <p>In the Athletic Atlantic game, last Saturday, Dock Mansell, of the Athletics, knocked a ball over left field fence, earning the first $20 gold piece fro1 KB (180 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a lawsuit against the old Athletics ...ous for so many victories, such sad defeats and such hopeless bankruptcy. Philadelphia Sunday Republic May 6, 1877</p>1 KB (175 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- <p>Athletics …..........$25,000</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item646 bytes (83 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The Athletics cannot reach the championship this year, even if they should beat the Atlan |Source=Philadelphia City Item643 bytes (100 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] Start [third in the lineup]...reached his second by a grounder p |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury551 bytes (86 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...tures $10,461.50, leaving a balance on the 1 st of June of $2,139.63. The Athletics have paid 25 per cent of the expenses of the European trip, and yet show an |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item617 bytes (93 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=plans for the Athletics for next season ...srs. Sharsig, Fulmer and Mason, and the second under Phillips' direction. Philadelphia Item October 2, 1881</p>2 KB (412 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ure to a contract, $500 in advance of what he was offered to stay with the Athletics.</p>1 KB (222 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics outbid Boston for Mathews and Rowen ...remain in Boston next season, as he has an offer from the Athletic club in Philadelphia which he will accept, as the sum offered hi is far in advance of that which517 bytes (88 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=judgments against the Athletics for back salary |Text=<p>Judgments were entered in Philadelphia last Saturday against the Athletic Base Ball Club in the suits against it b623 bytes (88 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The [Athletics] game on Decoration Day drew the largest crowd ever witnessed on a ball fie |Source=Philadelphia Item612 bytes (98 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Cincinnati 7/27/1870] [ninth inning, two outs, Cincinnati behind in the <p>“Out,” said the immortal and nervy man addressed, and the game was won by Philadelphia.</p>2 KB (426 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...occurred, which we cannot refrain from noticing. Directly in front of the Philadelphia delegation a number of planks had been arranged as seats, the same being pa |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (175 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ks ago we showed up the nefarious umpiring in Cincinnati that deprived the Athletics of several games. Mr. Frank Wright, the genial young base ball editor, cam |Source=Philadelphia Item656 bytes (101 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] Kleinfelder...reached first base. McBride succee |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury584 bytes (86 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Philadelphia crowds ...g, was eagerly sought after and fought for by the great unwashed. Verily, Philadelphia is a great place for base ball.</p>2 KB (284 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2022
- ...e student. Besides these, Andy Sommers of Boston, and Eddie Seward of the Athletics, are graduates of the West Side Cleveland high school.</p>1 KB (200 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- |Description=From Brooklyn Atlantics versus Philadelphia Athletics, October 22, 1866. John Thorn and Mark Rucker, The National Pastime 3, No.501 bytes (61 words) - 08:12, 28 June 2023
- |Title=the difficult early days of the Athletics |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury679 bytes (108 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...e need not stay at home fearing that a storm will cut the game short. The Philadelphia Times February 6, 1887</p> |Source=Philadelphia Times2 KB (350 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Chadwick at the Clipper and the Eagle; feud with the Athletics |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch687 bytes (112 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Philadelphia vs. Athletic 9/15/1875] The game was a tedious one, occasioned greatly by l <p>When the Athletics took the field, Knight was practicing Coons, when on the second ball pitche1 KB (178 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...stances one handsomely furnished–and we will be very much surprised if the Athletics do not embrace the opportunity now offered them of possessing a club-room w |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury697 bytes (110 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...ntic, Athletic, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, Mutual, Philadelphia, New Haven, St. Louis, St. Louis Reds and Washington. Of these it is well ...ed out, and rest assured that the financial outcome will be satisfactory. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury November 28, 1875</p>2 KB (340 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...hletic Club meeting of 1/10/1876] The new constitution and by-laws [of the Athletics] present but few changes, the most essential being the reduction of the num |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury631 bytes (97 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...of belonging to one of our leading clubs here; and during the visit of the Athletics to New York, Pratt being offered a good situation here, accepted it, and at ...ratt, their able pitcher, resigned from the club the day of his arrival in Philadelphia, the reason he assigned being that he had been offered a good situation in2 KB (289 words) - 17:16, 19 July 2018
- |Text=<p>The great second Base of the Athletics, invites attention to his advertisement. Base Balls and Bats for sale, and |Source=Philadelphia City Item640 bytes (103 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/22/1866] About 2500 persons were within the enclosure, so |Source=Philadelphia City Item640 bytes (98 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...ngement there will be no games postponed on account of an early rain. The Philadelphia Times February 6, 1887</p> ...do not intend to disappoint spectators who go out to see the games.” The Philadelphia Times February 27, 1887</p>1 KB (258 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The Atlantic of Brooklyn and the Athletic of Philadelphia played two of three scheduled matches for the championship of 1866; admissi |Sources=<p>Eric Miklich, "Money Ball-- Atlantics vs. Athletics", in <em>In</em><em>venting Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Ce649 bytes (92 words) - 08:34, 4 February 2016
- ...est between the Mutual Club, of new York, and the famous Athletic Club, of Philadelphia. The experiment was a great success, as four or five thousand people were637 bytes (99 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The policy of the Athletics in arranging first class games on Saturday afternoon is a very poor and sho |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury616 bytes (99 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...oston and Olympic Clubs are not satisfied with this plan, but it suits the Athletics, as the attendance is much larger in this city at baseball matches than els ...lub, viz.: for each club to take all receipts at home games, of course the Athletics had nothing to do with the extra charge. The result was anything but satis3 KB (488 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=ladies admitted free to Athletics games |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury675 bytes (104 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...tickets, should make immediate application to the worthy President of the Athletics, Hicks Hayhurst, either at No. 943 North Second street, or a Al. Reach’s. |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury717 bytes (108 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- ...be played in Brooklyn, instead of this city, as originally contemplated. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 29, 1872</p> ...lmost positively in New York. This is the fitting moral of the business. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch September 29, 1872</p>3 KB (567 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ince, when the Atlantics visited Philadelphia to try their mettle with the Athletics.</p>1 KB (209 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...hia with plenty of money and spend it like a lord among the members of the Athletics. Cuthbert carried out his part of the programme in good shape, but Lew Sim ...ion. He had been doing the town the night before with a young friend from Philadelphia and did not care to play any ball.</p>1 KB (262 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...<em>Altoona Tribune </em>was promoting a baseball carnival—Athletics, Mountain Club of Altoona, and Alleghany Club of Pittsburg</p> <p>Wash DC- Games on 8/28 between the Nationals and Athletics, 8/29 between the Nationals and the Atlantic of Brooklyn, “a festival2 KB (280 words) - 04:23, 1 October 2016
- ...<p>The excitement in this city on the afternoon of Thursday last [when the Athletics played the Mutuals in Brooklyn] was most intense. Telegraphic reports were |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch749 bytes (121 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...rtunities afforded him for “points” of play in his position than he had in Philadelphia.</p>658 bytes (102 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the new Athletics' field; grandfathering reserved seats |Text=<p>The grading and turfing of the new field of the Athletic Club of Philadelphia was commenced last week at Twenty-fifth and Jefferson streets. A substanti1 KB (212 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- <p>Other baseball games (e.g., the Philadelphia Athletics game, June 8, 1866) were played on "Allison's Hill," just east of downtown.661 bytes (99 words) - 05:23, 10 April 2020
- |Title=excitement in Philadelphia |Text=<p>[Mutuals vs. Athletics 8/28/1867] The game was appointed for 2, P.M., but at noon not a seat was t688 bytes (113 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the crowd in Philadelphia |Text=<p>[Cincinnati vs. Athletic 6/21/1869] The Athletics...did not make the fine display that was expected of them. They had, howev770 bytes (127 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...ball was adopted as the one to be used in all championship contests. The Athletics and Defiances will open the championship contests on May 26. New York Clip ...l secure the same by June 9. This resolution excludes from the record the Philadelphia-Harper game of May 26, unless the Harper team obtains inclosed grounds by J2 KB (250 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- <p>At 3:30 the gong again sounded and a second later the Athletics, led by stalwart Captain Stovey, emerged from the dressing room, and there |Source=Philadelphia Item772 bytes (121 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the new organization of the Athletics; conflict with the Philadelphias ...ion was offered that the directors be instructed to arrange games with the Philadelphia Club. This produced a great deal of debate. The scenes of the last two or1 KB (206 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...of this city. He was, also, during 1864 and 1865, one of the nine of the Athletics, taking the position of left field and third base generally. We only know |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (201 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...n advance of Weaver, who had preceded him, and the umpire [McMullin of the Athletics], on appeal, decided Kulp “out,” for failing to touch his base in the r |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury715 bytes (114 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...The case is about as follows: Michael McGeary, who was connected with the Philadelphia Club, on Monday received a discharge from the managers, playing with the cl ...sgraceful, to say the least; to try and force a player like McGeary on the Athletics, does not reflect much honor or credit upon the management of the St. Louis1 KB (236 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] Al. Reach, as usual, was the first striker on the Athletic side; |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury676 bytes (110 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...Mr. Hanna read a letter from John I. Rogers, one of the directors of the Athletics, of which the following are extracts:</p> ...ned, out of the public purse, the Olympian games, surely the great city of Philadelphia can give a slight encouragement to the American Olympiad by postponing for2 KB (415 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- ...he first innings he having again sprained his ank.e, and this deprived the Athletics of one of their best batsmen and fielders, the conduct of Pearce in refusin |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury795 bytes (127 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...games, as is proved in the instance of McGeary, the second striker of the Athletics, being second in hits to games and fourth in averages of times at bal.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury2 KB (303 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[Athletics vs. Brandywines 8/9/1866] “Scipio,” an African brother, who was engaged |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury732 bytes (113 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ayers hail from Philadelphia, five of them having formerly played with the Athletics.</p>834 bytes (137 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- ...sing to put their opponents out. This scheme had the desired effect. The Athletics considered that to enter upon such a contest would belittle them, and decla2 KB (433 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...Philadelphia Sunday Item July 8, 1883 [from an unidentified member of the Athletics sending regular correspondence to the Item]</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Item1 KB (211 words) - 19:49, 29 February 2020
- ...se two men should play but changed their minds after being defeated by the Athletics. The Keystones, therefore, gave their opponents a ball, and rather than di |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury770 bytes (119 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |City=Philadelphia |Sources=<p><em>Philadelphia Illustrated New Age, </em>Nov. 1, 1865</p>2 KB (348 words) - 08:24, 22 September 2020
- ..., wanted to keep his word wit that player, and he would release him if the Athletics would hire him. This Simmons said he could not do, still Bancroft says he840 bytes (138 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics finances; control of the Oakdale Ground; liquor sales |Source=Philadelphia Times814 bytes (127 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ine, and, if anything can be gained by hard practice they will get it.–The Athletics have given them a day in each week on their unequaled ground, for practice. |Source=Philadelphia City Item843 bytes (133 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...12, at which a communication was received from the Boston Club asking the Athletics to sign an agreement that the home club shall be responsible for any disord768 bytes (127 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...grateful, speaks of them as disparagingly and as bitterly as he did of the Philadelphia Club. We say that we shall insist that he does this, otherwise we shall ho ...on the Mutuals for their course with regard to Pike, as in the case of the Athletics, and we therefore presume that the assailants of the A’s, are now convinc4 KB (632 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...d of Bradley”] When he [George W. Bradley] consented to play for them [the Athletics ]last season, a great howl was made by The Item and other papers of the gre |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Item722 bytes (117 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- ..., (brother to W.D. Fisler,t he powerful and most gentlemanly player of the Athletics,) is the captain of the Shanghais, and this accounts for their brilliant su |Source=Philadelphia City Item773 bytes (126 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...f him, while the batting of the nine is, as a rule, very poor indeed. The Athletics took a heavy trip to Chicago, being unable to combat the “Little Engine� |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch738 bytes (117 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>[the Atlantics wish to postpone a match due to injuries; the Athletics insist on playing] Having already done the square thing in sending on a wea ...appear in the city ready to play, but the self same Atlantic nine; and the Athletics, finding their little game blocked, and of course obliged to meet their adv6 KB (998 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...-fifth and Jefferson, the third game of their championship series with the Athletics. An immense assemblage will doubtless be present to witness the contest be |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury804 bytes (126 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...ord 6/18/1868] One old chap had faith even in the Rockford Club, when the Athletics were at the bat for the last time, the Rockford players having been dispose |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury778 bytes (128 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...usly agreed upon by the managers of the two clubs. In this emergency, the Athletics were compelled to take an umpire from Baltimore, or else the game could not |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury797 bytes (123 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...for a number of years one of the most celebrated amateur ball players and athletics [sic]. It is said taht Tyng is to receive $2,500 for his services.</p> ...t, but I believe the public will appreciate it and that it will pay.” The Philadelphia Times December 23, 1887</p>3 KB (504 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>General Dan Kleinfelder, of the Athletics, is arranging a nine to be composed of the A’s Reserves. The General hea |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury905 bytes (140 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Club Name=Athletics |Sources=<p>Philadelphia <em>Sunday Dispatch</em>, June 17, 1866</p>688 bytes (95 words) - 12:42, 2 January 2022
- |City=Philadelphia ...t Grounds" The Olympic and Mercantile BBCs leased this ground in 1864. The Athletics moved there in 1871.</p>935 bytes (136 words) - 08:02, 26 June 2023
- ...yobserved in the future with this club playing on our grounds.Unidentified Philadelphia newspaper, 1867? Athletic scrapbook, Hall of Fame</p>2 KB (397 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...he "common" of Allegheny, entered as "east common" for field listing). The Philadelphia team won easily. See New York Clipper, Sept. 30, 1865.</p>1 KB (190 words) - 11:01, 24 December 2022
- ...eny club is after Casey. The prices offered for these players warrant the Philadelphia gentlemen in offering about $10,000 for the club. Pittsburgh Commercial Ga1 KB (217 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...that they had telegraphed to Philadelphia to postpone the match, but that Athletics had replied that they should come on prepared to play. We hope they will c <p>THE ATHLETIC CLUB.–A correspondent wishes to know whether the Athletics can claim a ball if they come on here to morrow, appear on the field, and c2 KB (299 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics don't meet the Atlantics at the station |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury872 bytes (140 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...been maintained intact, and now numbers some of the leading members of the Athletics and other base ball clubs. Their annual re-unions are notable for their br |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury895 bytes (143 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics' version of the failed match of October 1 |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1,001 bytes (162 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...however, have to be procured before the championship record is affected. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 25, 1871</p> ...His legal membership in that organization commenced on the 16th instant. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch June 25, 1871</p>2 KB (288 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics reorganize as a stock company; ownership ...the Philadelphia gentlemen, with Philadelphia capital, and maintained as a Philadelphia institution.</p>2 KB (321 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Thus far this new [Philadelphia] club, Athletics, and Baltimorians, are the only regular teams spoken of as likely to take p943 bytes (151 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- <p>umpire abuse in Philadelphia; the umpire runs to third to better see the play</p> ...s. The result was that another umpire has vowed that he will never act in Philadelphia again. As Swandell, Burdock, Hooper, and Ferguson have arrived at the same3 KB (528 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Atlantics throw a (practice?) game? the Athletics claim the championship from it ...llingly arriving at the conclusion that the game on Monday last one of the Athletics-Atlantic games, in the performance of which they became so notorious last y5 KB (903 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- <p>a failed match in Philadelphia</p> ...been thrown away if continued. New York Sun October 3, 1866, quoting the Philadelphia News October 2, 1866</p>5 KB (808 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ant comes out of Philadelphia or continues to hand in the clubhouse of the Athletics, is of very little consequence, as the record at the close of the season wi915 bytes (159 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...EVOLVER SYSTEM.–Mr. Pike, formerly of the Atlantic, but more lately of the Athletics, and now playing with the Irvingtons, who was still to have become a member |Source=Philadelphia City Item942 bytes (156 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...antic 7/5/1869] The first meeting this season between the Athletic Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn which took play July 5, on the Capitoline gro ...pated; and we were informed by a Philadelphia reporter who accompanied the Athletics that the intention all along had been to make the two first games mere cont7 KB (1,199 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...talked of it as something “smart.” These facts coming to the ears of the Athletics, they very properly refused to play such a nine and the game was declared o ...m when the latter were without the services of their regular pitcher. The Athletics, according to their agreement, left for New York, on Monday last. They wer6 KB (1,072 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...p Committee, through Harry Wright, their Chairman, and it remains with the Athletics to accept or make such amendments to the same as they may think fit.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury884 bytes (142 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the financial condition of the Athletics |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch931 bytes (151 words) - 18:41, 29 February 2020
- |Title=organizing the Athletics' annual meeting |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch1 KB (167 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a lager saloon at the Athletics ground? ...We don’t object to lager, but a ball ground is not the place to sell it. Philadelphia City Item August 1, 1868</p>3 KB (434 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...se of the 8th inning, when the score showed 7 to 7. On the 9th inning the Athletics went to the bat determined to “do or die.”</p> ...lked over to the Athletic Pavilion, and declared the game forfeited to the Athletics by a score of 9 to 0.</p>2 KB (313 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...that the fiasco of the last attempt of the Atlantics to play with them in Philadelphia should not be repeated, and made the most complete arrangements to provide2 KB (327 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...t to hear, resigned the Presidency of and membership in the Athletic Club, Philadelphia. Brooklyn Daily Eagle August 16, 1864</p> ...ties. To achieve the objects he had in view, for popularizing the game in Philadelphia, he has spent hundreds of dollars out of his own private purse; procured ba4 KB (612 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...bers, will not let out any of the days on the new ground to another club. Philadelphia City Item February 24, 1866</p> <p>Our old friend, the Athletics, held their annual meeting on Monday last, when some fifty new members were4 KB (664 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics won't make their Western tour ...b will make a Western trip or not, is at present a matter of uncertainty. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 17, 1876</p>5 KB (820 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- ...case is that “The substitute shall be the player running the bases.” The Athletics, unfortunately for their claim, did not discover that Snyder was running fo ...te to run for him forfeited all claims to consideration, and therefore the Athletics feel justified in taking advantage of this point. New York Clipper June 6,3 KB (548 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...managed in Hornellsville, Syracuse, Troy, Baltimore and Philadelphia (both Athletics and Philadelphias). Phillips' weak point has been his nervous unsettled te969 bytes (149 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...of belonging to one of our leading clubs here; and during the visit of the Athletics to New York, Pratt being offered a good situation here, accepted it, and at ...ratt, their able pitcher, resigned from the club the day of his arrival in Philadelphia, the reason he assigned being that he had been offered a good situation in2 KB (273 words) - 18:22, 29 February 2020
- ...er, in order to strengthen the claim, produced a petition signed by 900 of Philadelphia's citizens. He also offered to give visiting clubs 30 per cent. of the 25-1 KB (243 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics reorganize as a stock club ...subscribe should not fail to be present at the meeting next Monday week. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 2, 1876</p>3 KB (480 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...s of the national game in demanding a correct understanding of the rules. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 14, 1868</p> ..., but the Porkopolite noodles still accept him as the law and the gospel. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 14, 1868 see also PSM 8/2/68]</p>2 KB (332 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a social club outgrowth of the old Athletics ...distinctively good-fellowship... ... Its history is curious. Just as the Philadelphia Club sprang from a whist party, the Social Art from a reading club and the2 KB (387 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- ...decision, took the field, and two men were put out without adding a run. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 15, 1872</p> ...hat, and therefore both Anson and Reach were forced off their bases. The Athletics, however, produced the rules which distinctly says, “if an adversary stop5 KB (852 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=proposals to the Athletics for reform: better seating, lower admission, rain checks |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Republic926 bytes (157 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an account of the founding of the Athletics ...1 [sic: probably late 1880] Sharsig, Mason and I started the Athletics in Philadelphia with $9. that paid for the stockings, Sharsig having old uniforms. We pai2 KB (330 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...and the Buffalos have played against the club. If Troy is expelled by the Athletics, the under the Constitution of the American Association the Cincinnati Club ...day received official notice from Secretary Williams that the Philadelphia Athletics had expelled John Troy for breach of contract. The club at once telegraphe4 KB (751 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- ...for the best interests of our noble game. Let the hired men take notice. Philadelphia City Item June 30, 1866 [citing the New York Tribune]</p> ...his expenses until he could obtain work. “Only this, and nothing more!” Philadelphia City Item July 14, 1866</p>2 KB (406 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Athletics Show Annual Expenses, Income for 1872 |City=Philadelphia4 KB (701 words) - 05:20, 22 November 2022
- ...Club is in just the same position that the Phillies were in '83, when the Athletics were winning right along and playing at twenty-five cents, while the League ...with 40 per cent of the gate receipts to the visiting club, as is done at Philadelphia. Buffalo also wants this privilege. Detroit, probably now with a winning2 KB (274 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- ...Bill Taylor jumped St. Louis Unions' contracts to join the Baltimores and Athletics, respectively.</p> ...Myers and Porter, of the Milwaukee, were induced to break contract by the Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams. This out to show conclusively to every unpartisan mind2 KB (320 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
- |Title=rivalry between the Athletics and Olympics ...the rivalry at present existing between the Olympic and Athletic Clubs of Philadelphia being any thing but that manly and generous action which is excited by a cr1 KB (175 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics club meeting following Fitzgerald's resignation ...ation of the Presidency was read, and accepted by a vote of 41 to 37. The Athletics then proceeded to ballot for a new President, and Col. D. W. C. Moore and M4 KB (689 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- <p>Hayhurst and McBride resign from the Athletics</p> ...s conduct in retiring from the Athletic, that he cannot be depended upon. Philadelphia Sunday Republic April 8, 1877</p>1 KB (170 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a retrospective of the founding of the AA Athletics; finances; ownership ...n was an old ball player. He had come from the Live Oaks, of Lynn, to the Philadelphia Club in 1876. He gave their new venture the name of the Athletic Club. In5 KB (824 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- ...ming contest between the Philadelphia and Athletic clubs, on the 21st, the Athletics being the favorites:</p> ...to thus waste their time and money, and how fortunate we are in staid old Philadelphia in having so such state of moral turpitude. Yours, truly, T.H.M.</p>2 KB (358 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Athletics' admission price ...mes. The public have themselves only to blame for this state of affairs. Philadelphia Item April 26, 1877</p>2 KB (386 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>Recently in this city, during a game betwixt the Bostons and the Athletics, Col. Fitzgerald stated that Geo. Wright, at his (Col. Fitzgerald) request |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item1 KB (176 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...e from any complicity with this apparently most discreditable proceeding. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 15, 1871</p> ...plays upon this occasion. The game certainly should have gone against he Athletics, by a score of 10-11 on the last inning. But their opponents desired it ot3 KB (533 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...the corner of Jefferson and Twenty-fifth street, adjoining the Reservoir, Philadelphia, were duly inaugurated on Wednesday last...</p> ...izations to occupy the same locality, and hence we shall expect to see the Athletics priding themselves on the possession of a fine ground and clubhouse, and th2 KB (314 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...in favor of the Hartfords, suddenly veered around to the same odds on the Athletics, all this change taking place an hour before the game commenced. $1,100 is1 KB (185 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...sent, hold their meetings at No. 1108 Samson street. The club-room of the Athletics, at Eleventh and Chestnut streets, was first opened to the public on the 25 |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (180 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...has experienced trouble, which finally culminated in the affair of Monday. Philadelphia Sunday Republic May 26, 1872</p> ...ltimore 5/20/1872] [after confirming the Athletics version of events:] The Athletics, we are told, intend to lay the matter before the Judiciary Committee. We4 KB (754 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics stall out a game ...but to his credit be it said, he held it. Now came the deciding inning. Athletics would stand at the bat, and waste as much time as possible, and but for the5 KB (940 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...iting game,” and were given their first base seven times on called balls. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 10, 1869</p> <p>[Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/11/1869] The first game of the first regular series of con2 KB (284 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>A re-organization of the Athletics has just been made, and it now looks as if a great deal of the old interest |Source=Philadelphia Item1 KB (213 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- <p>New York professionals against the Athletics</p> ...b whose nine when meeting the others in the field draws such crowds as the Athletics do in their games with New York clubs. This action of our professional clu3 KB (526 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...Suffolk, of Boston, are the principal members; also the Fall River Club. Philadelphia Item March 20, 1876</p> ...tion club and a manager of another club in the association before Nov. 1. Philadelphia Item April 2, 1876</p>3 KB (466 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...lub, and are bound to do the bidding of the majority of the organization. Philadelphia All-Day City Item April 12, 1874</p> ...ter from “Good Sense”] Will you spare me a corner of your paper to ask the Athletics to pause? I am an amateur Base Ball player, and I have visited England (al3 KB (452 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...e your ideas regarding Mr. Young’s decision in the recent game between the Athletics and Troys where Force dropped a ball and made a double play? Did he have a |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch1 KB (197 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- ...ers announced that ten thousand people saw the Cincinnati-Athletic game in Philadelphia on Decoration Day. Yet the Cincinnati Club got for its share the receipts2 KB (337 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...y are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p> <p>Can the Athletics borrow the necessary $5000? If they had a gentleman for President, it migh4 KB (642 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...position, if not a higher one, than that occupied by his former pets, the Athletics, and we have no doubt that, by 1867, this club will rival in playing streng2 KB (452 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...country should be represented, if they are alive to their own interests. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 29, 1871</p> ...he Olympics, of Washington, making four games in all that were forfeited. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury November 5, 1871</p>6 KB (985 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...question stole the special message, emasculating it so as to say that the Athletics earned no runs, when the Age had two earned runs for the champions, and thi |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury1 KB (202 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...innati for $25,00, $500 of which it is reported Latham obtained. When the Athletics and Louisville protested against the sale the boss calmly said that both cl |Source=Philadelphia Times1 KB (203 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ground yesterday, and I heard it again to-day. The recent defeats by the Athletics, Mutuals and Philadelphias have, it is believed, caused a feeling of uneasi |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item1 KB (215 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Fitzgerald's epistle to the Athletics <p>Philadelphia, August 27, 1866</p>2 KB (403 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- <p>Same, Sept. 18, 1865 notes that the Athletics of Philadelphia, on a tour, will play the local Enterprise, Lincoln and Allegheny Clubs,</p1 KB (191 words) - 08:34, 22 May 2018
- |Title=the reorganized Athletics |Text=<p>[reporting on the reorganization of the Athletics] The first and most necessary thing to be done was, of course, to slough of3 KB (456 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...brought about by the creation of the rival Philadelphia nine, they and the Athletics dividing nearly $50,000 in receipts in 1873. Chicago has made a mistake in1 KB (222 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Location=Philadelphia, PA, |City=Philadelphia5 KB (861 words) - 17:42, 21 December 2021
- ...ear before. Reach sets high value on his services. In 1865 they cost the Athletics about $800. We suppose he will make $1000 in 1866. Indeed, we love hypocr |Source=Philadelphia City Item1 KB (220 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...European countries, and sinking fund to be used in part for that purpose. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury December 15, 1867 see also New York Clipper 12/22/1867</p> <p>the judiciary’s justification of the Athletics-Atlantics decision</p>2 KB (360 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...unpleasant lot to deal with. [from a letter by Harry Wright, writing from Philadelphia, to Frederick Long, dated September 3, 1875] [Boyd arrived in time to umpir |Source=from a letter by Harry Wright, writing from Philadelphia, to Frederick Long2 KB (371 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...s on foot to organize a new Association, to include St. Louis, Louisville, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and New York. Already the pr2 KB (375 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- ...lphia Club took a course in civil engineering last winter. Gunning of the Athletics was in attendance at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania;1 KB (233 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- ...enough to win when they pleased, except when pitted against the Bostons or Athletics. Hippodroming places them next to last in the championship race, while the ...t desired, another year will show that base ball is assuredly played out. Philadelphia All-Day City Item November 2, 1875, quoting the St. Louis Globe-Democrat</p4 KB (717 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...their cost when they come to put Cassidy's pitching against the Bostons or Athletics.</p>1 KB (241 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...ling reflection that escaped the lips of a ver enthusiastic admirer of our Philadelphia Club. The crowd now left Third street, and sought Reach’s, and as one or ...rove untrue. Nevertheless, it was true; but Josie and the admirers of the Athletics in the company refused to believe that “our pets” had been vanquished,4 KB (773 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...orge Concannon; Centennial, of Philadelphia, Thomas J. Lindsay; Kleinz, of Philadelphia, M. C. Lyons; Quicksteps, of Wilmington, A. Hindle; Active, of Reading, J. <p>A letter was read from Charles Spering, of the Athletics, president of the association in 1875, in which he said that “owing to pr4 KB (602 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...Note also references therein to the Atlantics having disbanded.] [See also Philadelphia Sunday Republic 5/21/71 for a similar account of the dispute.]</p>1 KB (254 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics put new financial controls in place |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch1 KB (247 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- <p>Jack Brennan's grievance with the Athletics</p> ...told out of school, explaining to some degree the many disappointments the Athletics have given their admirers both and home and abroad. New York Sun March 16,3 KB (466 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...he ninth inning. New York Sunday Mercury July 4, 1875, quoting an unnamed Philadelphia paper. [Note: Phila Sunday Mercury estimates crowd at 5,000.]</p>1 KB (235 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...agers. ... Certainly the National Game is a profession, and nothing else! Philadelphia City Item October 3, 1868</p>1 KB (238 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...ed as a semi-professional team for 1885. The nine includes Siffel, of the Athletics, Metz, of the Olympics, and McCann, catchers.... The Sporting Life March 112 KB (257 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
- ...ut Anson [third baseman], who was under him, quickly got it on the bound. Philadelphia Sunday Republic August 25, 1872</p> ...treet facing The American office, and when the eighth inning [in which the Athletics scored seven runs] was announced it was laughable to witness the countenanc2 KB (379 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- <p>Athletics salaries, finances</p> ...propose to double this next season in order to secure a first-class nine. Philadelphia Times July 9, 1882</p>2 KB (292 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- ...oroughly disgusting everyone on the ground and losing their many friends. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 18, 1874</p> ...nning resulted in a blinker for the Bostons, to the general satisfaction. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch October 18, 1874</p>3 KB (501 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...In 1865, the Nationals hosted a baseball tournament with the Philadelphia Athletics, for which viewing stands were built and admission was charged.</p>2 KB (268 words) - 06:38, 12 November 2023
- ...s around with the remains of the champs. And then, too, the Brooklyns and Athletics will both be big drawing cards in St. Louis. Each will have old St. Louis2 KB (319 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- ...risburg that August. See Harrisburg. An 1863 game against the Philadelphia Athletics was played on the Altoona home grounds on "Prospect Hill." Prospect Hill is1 KB (218 words) - 12:18, 28 August 2023
- ...York Clipper</em>, Nov. 4, 1865 reports that that the touring Athletics of Philadelphia defeated Williamsport 101-8.</p>1 KB (211 words) - 17:10, 4 September 2021
- |Text=<p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] As early as ten o’clock, the prominent positions outside of th ...rt and Berry’s restaurant were all occupied at two and one dollar a seat. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 6, 1868</p>2 KB (276 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...tom of the whole thing, expecting to make some money out of the snap. The Philadelphia Item October 1, 1882, quoting the Pittsburg Despatch.</p> |Source=Philadelphia Item3 KB (475 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
- ...ject, however, in all respects to the rules and regulations adopted by the Athletics for the government of their professional players. All of our first-class a |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury2 KB (308 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- ...of the Baltimore club and Messrs. Simmons and Sharsig of the Athletics of Philadelphia attended the meeting, and worked like beavers in the interest of the Americ2 KB (283 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- ...n, and held a brief interview with him. Mr. Spering claimed that while in Philadelphia the St. Louis club selected Mr. McLean from a number of names furnished to |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Republic3 KB (593 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...ntal. At least Mr. O’Rourke says so, and he will catch for the Reds. The Athletics were not so unlucky after all in not securing White.</p> ...upon Mr. White fulfilling his contract, and that he is likely to give in. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch April 20, 1873</p>2 KB (301 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- ...e Brotherhood team will consolidate, and the new club will be known as the Athletics.</p>4 KB (609 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- <p>the Athletics to form a stock company</p> ...ription book is now open at Reach & Johnson’s, No. 6 South Eighth street. Philadelphia All-Day City Item November 21, 1875</p>3 KB (448 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the Athletics' version of negotiations for the return match with the Atlantics ...ch a demand, and matters were again settled. On the 15 th of October, the Athletics put in an appearance on the Capitoline grounds, at Brooklyn, at their own e4 KB (684 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...makers should know by this time that when they spring a lively ball on the Athletics, they have no equal in the country as batsmen. Evening City Item June 29, ...lightest tip it flew around in a manner that made it dangerous to handle. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch July 2, 1871</p>5 KB (880 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...ans on Staten Island we had the biggest crowd ever seen there. We went to Philadelphia, and the very first game was witnessed by 13,000 persons. The four games w ...ion, and that alone will do it. Can such clubs as the Cincinnatis and the Athletics afford to lose the St. Louis Browns for the few hundred dollars that the pe4 KB (657 words) - 20:15, 29 February 2020
- <p>“Ever since my connection with the club the Athletics have played honest ball and employed honest players, and so long as I am co |Source=The Philadelphia Evening Item2 KB (362 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ...in the presence of a crowd of witnesses, notwithstanding the rules of the Athletics. Such infringements of the law and such exhibitions of immorality are calc |Source=Philadelphia Evening Telegraph2 KB (381 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...r sentiments in reference to this promiscuous distribution of badges. Our Athletics and Keystones have suffered through the folly of it, and have ordered their |Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury5 KB (891 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=plans for the Athletics' grounds ...itted up club-room at 135 North Eighth street, where ball-players visiting Philadelphia will receive a cordial welcome. Cincinnati Commercial February 18, 1882</p3 KB (527 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...additional runs were added by the wild throwing of Force and Radcliff,... Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 25, 1872</p> ...ensued, which resulted in giving the Athletics no less that seven runs... Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch August 25, 1872</p>4 KB (732 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...eduled between the Athletics and Louisvilles at Louisville, transferred to Philadelphia. The result is, the press and public of Louisville are up in arms and deno2 KB (381 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- ...e privilege of playing with out than League Alliance Clubs in New York and Philadelphia. The special legislation enacted for the benefit of Day and Reach seemed t ...ot closed within the next few days they will be given to the Baltimore and Athletics Clubs, who are now negotiating for them. Cincinnati Enquirer March 23, 1882 KB (402 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...as removed from the box, so the letter stated, the man who was backing the Athletics immediately began to hedge, and the odds veered around from $100 to $60 on |Source=Philadelphia Item2 KB (392 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- <p>Mr. Simmons, of the Athletics, seconded these remarks by withdrawing his vote of opposition to the appoin |Source=Philadelphia Item3 KB (437 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=baseball excitement in Philadelphia ...kled the vanity of the majority of them amazingly. “Muffin” Atlantics and Athletics became important personages, wore their hats on one side, and looked on ord6 KB (1,120 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...The idea is to take over the two champion club nines of 1872 and 1873, the Athletics and Bostons, and together to play not only a series of games of baseball, b3 KB (446 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ng variation of the usual way, originated with Messrs. Mann & Benolt. The Philadelphia Sunday Item July 15, 1883</p> <p>the Athletics gathering relics of the old club</p>5 KB (904 words) - 19:49, 29 February 2020
- ...of William Barnie, of Baltimore, who was expected to hold a proxy from the Athletics, to arrive in time, left the meeting without a majority of clubs necessary ...it is authoritatively stated that Brooklyn, Baltimore, Cincinnati and the Athletics have entered into an agreement favoring the continuance of the present guar5 KB (916 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...t what I said then, I mean it now and I will mean it on September 3.” The Philadelphia Times August 2, 1887</p> ...earned seems to have been forgotten by some of the Association clubs. The Philadelphia Times August 7, 1887</p>6 KB (1,154 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...al nine;: Troy, ditto, and an opposition tot he Athletics is organizing in Philadelphia. St. Louis, too is in the market, and also New Orleans. </p>3 KB (441 words) - 09:22, 18 November 2020
- |Region=Philadelphia | <p>Philadelphia, Pa.</p> <p>United States Club grounds at corner of 61st and Hazel streets<34 KB (5,498 words) - 05:31, 29 April 2016
- |Title=Athletics' finances; effect of membership on split of gate receipts |Text=<p>[report of the Athletics’ annual meeting] The Treasurer presented his report, which showed $22,6213 KB (476 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...d have to do with it.” Here we have a showing of the League's hand. The Philadelphia Item January 1, 1882</p> ...erning the engagement of John Troy, who has broken his engagement with the Athletics, and received the following reply:</p>7 KB (1,175 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...merican Association expelling Troy, who first signed with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and then broke his contract and joined the Detroit team, the Enquirer corr4 KB (612 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...of which prospered greatly, until continued success begot emulous rivalry, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and other cities soon disputed the claimed superiority of the Got ...known, admired, and dreaded throughout the entire county. When the famed Athletics and Atlantics will be compelled to “pale their ineffectual fires” befor6 KB (1,078 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...of Act VI of our Constitution, which seems to require his expulsion by the Athletics, and under section 12 of the same article no Club of this Association could ...eir intentions are already endeavoring to get up a League Alliance Club in Philadelphia under the notorious Phillips, whom they claimed they would have nothing to7 KB (1,305 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...p>“Cranks in base ball? Well, I should say so,” said Charles Mason of the Athletics. “Do you know, every season brings new ones to the surface. Our mail ev |Source=The Philadelphia Evening Item4 KB (681 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- ...York, Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis (American), Chicago, Phillies and Athletics certainly all made profits on the season, and that therefore they should gi ...as they decided that they would first find out what they were doing. The Philadelphia Times November 19, 1885</p>4 KB (706 words) - 20:01, 29 February 2020
- ...ue Alliance Club. This will especially operate in Philadelphia, where the Athletics belong to the American Association, and the Philadelphias to the League-All5 KB (822 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The coming man for manager [of the Athletics] is said to be Mr. Horace S. Fogel, the official scorer of the club, and un ...re naturally afraid of the motives back of them. Last season a well known Philadelphia reporter, doubtless with the best intentions, made such an attempt and fail7 KB (1,174 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...Errors at the hands of such players as Start of the Mutuals, Fisler of the Athletics, Wright of Boston, Clapp of St. Louis, Spalding of Chicago, Fulmer of Louis5 KB (821 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- ...ers of distinction. Radcliff, the short stop of the champion Athletics of Philadelphia, and Pike, of the Haymakers, one of the most powerful batters in the countr5 KB (890 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...eland was won over, and then it only remained to secure the vote of either Philadelphia or Louisville to secure the Cowboys' admission. Meanwhile Mr. Whitfield w5 KB (883 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- ...to it. But the crops of cranks is a big one this year.” St., quoting the Philadelphia Record</p>6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- ...e="text-decoration: underline;">The 1883 American Association Philadelphia Athletics</span>. (2021, SABR)</p>10 KB (1,408 words) - 23:45, 6 January 2024
- <p>Mr. Simmons, of the Athletics, seconded these remarks by withdrawing his vote of opposition to the appoin ...as reconsidered and adopted. J. H. Pank, of Louisville, Lewis Simmons, of Philadelphia, and W. Barnie, of Baltimore, were appointed as the committee. Cincinnati7 KB (1,162 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
- ...U.S. professional baseball teams—the Boston Red Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics in 1874 and the Chicago White Stockings and an All-America team in 1889. Bo21 KB (3,885 words) - 08:49, 12 March 2016