DATE: 1950s ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 3 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, within about 2 years of when it was shot TEAM: Philadelphia Athletics SUBJECT: Connie Mack APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/8"x8-7/8" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Cornelius Alexander Mack (The Tall Tactician) (born Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy) was born in 1862 in East Brookfield, MA and died in 1956 in Philadelphia, PA. He played major league baseball from 1886 to 1896 as catcher for the Washington Nationals, Buffalo Bisons, and the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. Mack managed the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1894-96 and went on to a 50-year career managing the Philadelphia Phillies from 1901 to 1950. He was the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history. The Philadelphia stadium, originally called Shibe Park, was renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953. Starting in 1909, it was home to the Athletics, and starting 1938, it was also home to the Phillies, then from 1955 to 1970 was home to the Phillies alone, after the Athletics moved to Kansas City. Mack's son Earle Mack played several games for the A's between 1910 and 1914, and also managed the team for parts of the 1937 and 1939 seasons when his father was too ill to do so. In more recent years, his descendants have taken to politics: Mack's grandson Connie Mack III was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1983 to 1989 and the United States Senate from 1989 to 2001, and great-grandson Connie Mack IV was elected to the House from Florida's 14th Congressional District. On August 26, 2008, Connie Mack was the first person inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame. He is mentioned in the poem "Lineup for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Q is for Don Quixote, Cornelius Mack; Neither Yankees nor years, Can halt his attack. SKU: SPP01456
Item: SPP01456
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