» April 26, 1909: A's popular C Doc Powers dies at the age of 38. He developed intestinal problems sustained when he ran into a wall during the Shibe Park opener on April 12th.

» May 30, 1909: the A's Frank Baker belts the first homer over the RF wall at Shibe Park. His drive comes off Red Sox hurler Frank Arellanes.

» September 26, 1911: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their 2nd straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11–5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.

» September 3, 1917: At Shibe Park, the A's host their biggest crowd in three years and celebrate by sweeping a pair from the Senators, 7–4 and 9–2. Joe Bush, reinstated today by Connie Mack after being suspended for two weeks, starts for the A's but is lifted after three because of wildness. Roy Grover and Amos Strunk have three hits apiece in the opener. In the 2nd game, the Mackmen jump on Walter Johnson, knocking him off the rubber in the 3rd inning, and Jing Johnson coasts to the win.

» June 15, 1925: In Shibe Park with the Indians leading 15-4 after seven innings, many fans leave and miss one of the greatest rallies of the century. The A's score 13 in the eighth for a 17-15 win. The outburst gives P Tom Glass his lone major-league victory.

» May 14, 1927: During a game between the Phils and Cards, a section of 10 rows in the RF stands at Baker Bowl collapses from the weight of the crowd and hundreds of fans fall on those below. There are many injuries, but the one death that occurs is caused by the crowd stampede, not the stands collapsing. Philadelphia is leading 12–4 in the top of the 7th—4 runs coming on Russ Wrightstone's 2nd grand slam of the year—when the tragedy occurs, and the game is called. The Phils 12 remaining home games in May will be played at Shibe Park.

» July 21, 1928: Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A's take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.

» October 14, 1929: After a Sunday off, a special train from Washington brings President and Mrs. Hoover to Shibe Park to see if Howard Ehmke can wind up the Series against Pat Malone. They match zeroes for 3, but with two outs in the 4th, a walk and three hits give the Cubs a 2–0 lead. Malone stifles the A's with two hits and the 2–0 lead holds up into the 9th. The Athletics rally and come up with three runs, the winning run scoring on a Bing Miller double, and take the series four games to one. There won't be another winning rally by a team down two runs in the 9th of game seven this century; the Diamondbacks, in 2001, will do it next. National League MVP Rogers Hornsby, hobbled with a heel spur, manages just five hits in the Series.

» October 1, 1930: The World Series opens with a Wednesday game at Philadelphia's Shibe Park. The defending World Champion Athletics are held to 5 hits by Burleigh Grimes. Lefty Grove limits the Cards to a pair of runs, as the A's capitalize on their power. Their 5 hits include HRs by Mickey Cochrane and Al Simmons, 2 triples and a double, providing Philadelphia with single runs in 5 different innings and a 5-2 victory.

» October 6, 1931: The A's George Earnshaw evens the WS with a 3-0 shutout, giving up 2 hits to the red-hot Pepper Martin. Jimmie Foxx hits a ball over the LF stands, judged one of the longest drives ever at Shibe Park.

» April 8, 1934: The Phillies and A's meet in a City Series game before 15,000 fans at Shibe Park for the first legal Sunday baseball game ever played in Philadelphia.

» August 29, 1934: A capacity crowd at Shibe Park sees Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe fail to win his 17th straight. He is knocked from the box in the seventh inning of the second- game, 13-5 loss to Philadelphia.

» May 24, 1936: Yankees 2B Tony Lazzeri sets several slugging marks with two grand slams, a 3rd home run, and a triple for 15 total bases in a 25–2 slaughter of the Athletics at Shibe Park. Tony has now hit seven home runs in four games and six in three games. He also sets a new AL mark of 11 RBIs in one game. DiMaggio has three hits, including a homer, and Frank Crosetti also goes deep as a league mark is tied when nine Yanks score two or more runs. Another major-league record is tied when Ben Chapman draws five walks as the Yanks are handed 16 bases on balls. Gehrig exits early and is replaced by his favorite sub, Jack Saltzgaver. Monte Pearson is the winner over George Turbeville in the laugher.

» June 30, 1938: The Phillies play their final game in the Baker Bowl, losing 14–1 to the Giants. They will play future games in A's-owned Shibe Park. Hank Lieber hits the last homer in the park, while Slick Castleman is the last winning pitcher.

» August 28, 1938: On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader from the White Sox, setting a league record by playing their seventh successive twin bill in 8 days.

» May 16, 1939: A crowd of 15,109 watch the first American League night game played at Shibe Park, with Cleveland beating the A's 8–3 in 10 innings. Johnny Humphries is the winner over Roy Parmalee.

» May 17, 1941: The city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania declare a legal holiday to honor the A's manager on Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park. Connie declines to agree to a name change for Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium. George M. Cohan sings a new baseball song and then the Tigers put a damper on the day's festivities with a 6–5 come-from-behind win. Frank Croucher has three hits, including a triple, for Detroit.

» June 1, 1942: Army-Navy relief games by each team are publicized war efforts by organized baseball. The game at Ebbets Field contributes $60,000 from a crowd of 43,000, but the Phillies' game at Shibe Park draws only 2,000 fans and $3,000.

» July 13, 1943: The AL edges the NL 5-3 at Shibe Park in the first All-Star Game played under the lights. Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox is the hitting hero with a 3-run HR off Mort Cooper in the second inning. Vince DiMaggio of the Pirates has a single, triple and HR in three trips. Doerr also handled six fielding chances. At the All-Star break he had handled 307 errorless chances, dating back to May 20th. His AL streak will end at 349 chances, a record he will break in 1948.

» May 25, 1946: The first place Dodgers whip the Phillies, 7–1, for their 14th straight win at Shibe Park. Augie Galan has single, double, and triple and is involved in an unusual "catcher's balk" play. Augie is at bat when Pete Reiser, on 3B, breaks for home on an attempted steal. Phils C Andy Seminick tips Galan's bat on the play and umpire Al Barlick calls the balk. Reiser is awarded a steal of home and Galan gets 1B. The Dodgers will sweep a pair tomorrow at Shibe.

» July 13, 1946: Al Zarilla of the St. Louis Browns gets two triples in the fourth inning against the A's. The Browns win 11-4 at Shibe Park.

» May 11, 1947: In front of 41,660 at Shibe Park—the largest crowd to date to watch a baseball game in Philadelphia—the Phils take two from Brooklyn to take three out of four in the series. The Jays win 7–3 and 5–4. In the first game, the Phils score all their runs in the 3rd and 4th to give knuckler Dutch Leonard his 5th win against a defeat, and his 2nd win in three days against the Bums. Del Ennis's first homer of the year scores 3. Schoolboy Rowe, with relief help from Ken Heintzelman wins the nitecap. He also bangs a homer, and wins his 9th straight over two seasons. Harry Walker raises his average in a Phils uniform to .406 and "closes out the nitecap with one of the most spectacular catches of the season, a catch that would have made the immortal Dode Paskert of 30 years ago doff his hat." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

» May 13, 1951: At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, Mickey Mantle hits his first righty homer, off Alex Kellner, in the majors, then makes the last out by popping up his bunt attempt with the tying run on 3rd. The A's win 5–4, then win the nitecap as well. Mantle has no homers in the 2nd game loss, but misses 2nd base on a hit.

» June 18, 1951: In a matchup of aces at Shibe Park, Larry Jansen defeats Robin Roberts, 2–0. Jansen's 4-hitter gives the Giants their eighth straight win and the Phils their seventh straight loss.

» August 27, 1951: At Shibe Park, light-hitting reserve C Del Wilber of the Phillies hits three home runs in three at bats to provide Ken Johnson with all his support. Johnson beats the Reds Ken Raffensberger 3–0 in the nightcap after Jocko Thompson shuts out Cincinnati 2–0 in the first game. Wilber went back to the minors in 1949 to manage in the Texas League.

» February 13, 1953: The Athletics change the name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium, in honor of their longtime owner and manager.

» December 11, 1954: With the Athletics poised to move to Kansas City, the Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium.

» April 3, 1961: Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J. Schleifer Properties. The park is to be torn down after the 1963 season and replaced by bowling alleys.

» June 4, 1964: Sandy Koufax becomes the 4th pitcher to hurl three no-hitters by blanking the National League-leading Phillies 3–0 at Connie Mack Stadium. Koufax strikes out 12 and walks one.

» September 26, 1964: At Shibe Park, the Braves and Phillies set a major-league record by using 43 players in a 9-inning game. The Braves' 25 match the 9-inning high mark for National League clubs. Eight of the 25 are pitchers, tying a league mark, but still the stumbling Phils drop their 6th in a row 6–4. The topper is Rico Carty's 3-run triple in the top of the 9th against reliever Bobby Shantz, in for starter Art Mahaffey. Torre again has three hits for Milwaukee, which shaves the Phils' lead to a half-game.

» September 27, 1964: Despite three home runs by Johnny Callison, the Phils are 14–8 losers to the Braves, who complete a 4-game sweep at Connie Mack Stadium. The Phils' 7th straight loss drops them out of first, which they had held for 73 days. Milwaukee tallied 22 hits—10 against Jim Bunning in four innings—and four relievers. Joe Torre has two hits including his 20th homer.

» May 29, 1965: Dick Allen cranks a 529-foot home run over the left CF roof at Connie Mack Stadium in the 1st inning off Chicago's Larry Jackson. The Phils win 4–2.

» August 3, 1969: The Reds tally 10 runs in the 5th inning and smack 25 hits in the game to just beat the Phillies 19–17 at Connie Mack Stadium. With the 10 run-5th they take a 16–9 lead, and add another pair in the 6th. The Phils counter with seven runs in the 6th. Johnny Bench is the high man for the Reds with five hits.

» July 2, 1970: At Connie Mack Stadium, the Phils break their scoreless streak of 53 innings and sweep two from the Mets, 6–1 and 3–2. With successive pinch hits by Tony Taylor, Ron Stone, and Byron Browne, the Phils score six in the 8th inning to win the opener for Jim Bunning, then again come from behind to win the nitecap for Chris Short. The opener is the 6,000th game played at the ancient stadium.

» October 1, 1970: The final game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium is played, the Phillies beating the Expos 2–1 in 10 innings and escape the cellar. A trickle of fans started running onto the field beginning in the 8th inning when the rosin bag was stolen in between innings. One fan grabbed the arm of left fielder Ron Stone just as he started after a ball hit by John Bateman. The ball falls safely, putting the tying run on. With the game's end, the crowd of 31,822 responds by swarming onto and destroying the field and stadium. A post-game ceremony with 67 prizes to be awarded, is canceled.