Word: shibe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business on the Field. Any other manager would have been fired. Connie owned his team. So he hung on, scouted for rookies, traded shrewdly for established stars. Neatly garbed in a business suit, he was a part of every ball game in Shibe Park. The A's might lose, but it was worth the price of admission to watch Mr. Mack wigwagging signals to his outfield with a rolled-up score card, a bath towel around his thin neck, his famous straw hat hanging near...
...older brother Lawrence run a milk route. By 5:30 he was back in bed; at 8 he was on his way to school. Always, young Roy's income was turned over to his mother, and always, his allowance was spent on movies or a ball game. Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was within walk ing distance of the Campanella home, and any afternoon there was a game. Roy was there, too. For a quarter a kid could get an unofficial bleachers seat on the roof of one of the houses adjoining the field...
Equipped with season passes, Meehan spent two full summers painting the Phillies. Day after day, he roamed Shibe Park from opening to closing, filling notebooks with sketches, then going home to put them on canvas. The players paid little attention, but a lot of fans thought he was crazy. "It got so bad," says Meehan, "I pretended I was just keeping score...
...days after the New York Yankees clinched their third pennant in a row,* the National League race was right back where it started on opening day. In Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Brooklyn's stumbling Dodgers looked up at the big scoreboard and read the bad news from Boston. The Giants had actually done it. They had beaten the Boston Braves, 3-2, had whittled the Dodgers' 13½-game lead down to nothing and hauled themselves into the league lead. For the Dodgers, trailing the Phillies 8 to 5 in the sixth inning, it looked like...
While Curt Simmons sped to Shibe Park with a special ten-day pass, approved by the Department of Defense, the general continued, "it is gratifying to be able to take this course of action to encourage the ball team during the World Series...