Talk:Connie Mack (baseball)

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Contents 1 Born Where? 2 Headline text 3 Football? 4 SURNAME 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Connie-mack-cover.jpg 6 Uncited anecdote

[edit] Born Where?

The Baseball Encyclopedia lists him as born in Brookfield, not East Brookfield. Which is right? Badbilltucker 20:40, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

The site where Mack was born is within the present limits of East Brookfield, Massachusetts, but that town was not incorporated until 1920. At the time of Mack's birth, the property was in Brookfield, Massachusetts. So, as a general statement, both are right. Mack was born in Brookfield, but his birthplace is (now) in East Brookfield. Wiki Wistah 07:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Headline text

[edit] Football?

I visited the Football Hall of Fame a while ago, and I saw Connie Mack was in the HOF for owning one of the first pro football teams, the Phil. Athletics. Can we get anymore information on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.192.172.250 (talk) 03:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Here's some info http://ghosts.footballhistory.org/Phillies-Athletics.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.192.172.250 (talk) 04:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SURNAME

Did it remain McGillicuddy? Or did he legally change it to Mack? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.111.132 (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Connie-mack-cover.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uncited anecdote

By the 1940s a member of the Shibe Park staff had established a procedure: He would leave the office in the last half of the seventh inning and go to the elevator section on the clubhouse level, open the door, and hold it for Mack to take Connie to his tower office. The A's played a home game against the Detroit Tigers in 1945 that lasted for 24 innings. The staffer went to the elevator about 4:30 and held the door open for about 3 hours!

Above passage reverted from article. It's not cited, out of context, and of dubious importance. JNW (talk) 21:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)