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DODGER DEB
12-20-2007, 07:24 AM
On December 20, 1940, CONNIE MACK purchased the Philadelphia A's from the Shibe Family for a mere $42,000.
If anyone has more info on this sale/purchase, I, for one, would be interested in hearing about it.
c.
On December 20, 1940, CONNIE MACK purchased the Philadelphia A's from the Shibe Family for a mere $42,000.
If anyone has more info on this sale/purchase, I, for one, would be interested in hearing about it.
c.
CONNIE MACK acquires controlling interest in the Athletics from the Shibe family at the price of $42‚000 for 141 shares. He started in 1901 with a 25 percent piece of the team and eventually became sole owner.
Mack was also tight-fisted. Seeing baseball as a business, he once confided that it was more profitable to have a team get off to a hot start, then ultimately finish fourth. "A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don't have to give the players raises when they don't win," he said. The most famous example of Mack's tight-fistedness came on July 10, 1932, when the Athletics played a one-game series with the Cleveland Indians. To save train fare, Mack only brought two pitchers. The starting pitcher was knocked out of the game in the first inning, leaving only knuckleballing relief pitcher Eddie Rommel. Rommel pitched 17 innings and gave up 33 hits, but won the game, 18-17.
After playing for Pittsburgh for four years, Mack was made manager as well as catcher. In 1897 his friend Ban Johnson offered him the managerial job with the minor league Milwaukee team; Mack held that position for four years. When Johnson founded the American League, he offered Mack the Philadelphia franchise. Mack kept twenty-five percent and funded the rest through a partnership with Ben Shibe, the inventor of ball-winding machines. The Philadelphia Athletics played their first game under Mack's management in 1901.
DODGER DEB
12-20-2007, 08:32 AM
CONNIE MACK acquires controlling interest in the Athletics from the Shibe family at the price of $42‚000 for 141 shares. He started in 1901 with a 25 percent piece of the team and eventually became sole owner.
Mack was also tight-fisted. Seeing baseball as a business, he once confided that it was more profitable to have a team get off to a hot start, then ultimately finish fourth. "A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don't have to give the players raises when they don't win," he said. The most famous example of Mack's tight-fistedness came on July 10, 1932, when the Athletics played a one-game series with the Cleveland Indians. To save train fare, Mack only brought two pitchers. The starting pitcher was knocked out of the game in the first inning, leaving only knuckleballing relief pitcher Eddie Rommel. Rommel pitched 17 innings and gave up 33 hits, but won the game, 18-17.
After playing for Pittsburgh for four years, Mack was made manager as well as catcher. In 1897 his friend Ban Johnson offered him the managerial job with the minor league Milwaukee team; Mack held that position for four years. When Johnson founded the American League, he offered Mack the Philadelphia franchise. Mack kept twenty-five percent and funded the rest through a partnership with Ben Shibe, the inventor of ball-winding machines. The Philadelphia Athletics played their first game under Mack's management in 1901.
Interesting read, LeoD. Thanks for posting it.
Seems to me WE knew someone who just might have picked up his "business ethic" from Mr. Mack.
c.
Interesting read, LeoD. Thanks for posting it.
Seems to me WE knew someone who just might have picked up his "business ethic" from Mr. Mack.
c.
Your welcome, I was thinking of him also.
PlayJay
12-22-2007, 08:17 AM
How Connie Mack became a legendary figure in his own time, given the realities of attitudes in the Philadelphia press, is one of the great wonders of all time...