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...Sweet Sixteen." The delegates were rewarded with a fleeting glimpse of Wallace, who appeared briefly at Convention Hall, then was rushed back to his hotel. The climax came the next night at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics. Some 30,000 people, who paid 65? to $2.60 for seats, all but filled the vast, covered stands. Banks of blinding floodlights beat down on the speakers' platform erected near second base...
...Williams v. Beau Jack (Mon. 10:15 p.m., Mutual) for the lightweight championship; from Philadelphia's Shibe Park. The fight will be televised if the promoters are satisfied with the box office (TIME, June...
Last week, to the fans' surprise, and to Connie's too, the astonishingly athletic Athletics were playing first-division ball. Arriving at Shibe Park for a home stand, they took a firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...
Outside Philadelphia's Shibe Park last week, a newspaper delivery truck screeched to a stop. The driver dumped his papers and grinned, "What's going on around here, a World Series?" He knew the answer, and so did nearly everybody else in Philadelphia: the team that had been moribund for 28 years,* and in eighth place in the National League for seven out of eight years, was suddenly the livest thing in baseball...
...spite of the heat (96°) and the transit strike (see U.S. AT WAR), Philadelphians-29,166 of them-jammed into Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden...