[rollei_list] OT: Baseball

I believe Connie Mack's actual name was Cornelius McGillicutti ( or similar), so my friend from Philadelphia got a real laugh out of the politician from Florida changing HIS name to trade on his grandfather's fame.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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According to family legend, my grandfather, Robert W. Lilley spent a couple of seasons as a catcher sometime before WWI with the Philadelphia Athletics. 
Apparently he caught for the famous Herb Pennock who grew up near him.
All my grandfather ever said about baseball was that the players, except for Herb Pennock who was a gentleman, were a rough lot and not fit to be around 'honest women' (go figure). My grandfather ended his days as a metallurgist 
with the Worth Steel Company in Claymont, Delaware about the time Connie
Mack left the 'A's.


Rob

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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc James Small
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Snip.....

Baseball is full of oddiities but my personal
favorite is Connie Macki, the manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates from 1900 to 1902 and for the
Philadelphia Athletics from 1902 to 1950.  By the
end, he owned the team and the stadium.  His
grandson served as a Senator from Florida for a
term or two.  Mack ended up holding almost all
managerial records through sheer longevity:  most
wins, most losses, most this, most that.

I have a Connie Mack baseball on my desk, the
only fee I received from a divorce case I handled
twenty yeas or more ago.  It is from either the
'32 or '33 Athletics.  And I knew a guy once who
knew Honus Wagner well and who had met Ty Cobb and the Babe.

And, yes, I do remember Forbes Field.  And
Memorial Stadium.  And Candlestick Park.  <sigh>

Peter Morris' books are worthy reads though he
loses focus when the discussions run much past 1900.

Marc


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