Connie Mack
Chronology
| 1862 | Born December 22 in East Brookfield, Massachusetts |
| 1884 | Joins professional Meriden team of Connecticut State League as catcher |
| 1885 | Plays for Hartford in Eastern League; traded to Washington of National League |
| 1887 | Marries Margaret Hogan on November 2; they will have three sons |
| 1890 | Joins Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players in fighting for players' rights; revolt results in formation of Players' League |
| 1890 | Invests $500 savings in Buffalo team of Players' League; loses it all when league collapses |
| 1892 | Wife, Margaret, dies |
| 1894 | Becomes manager of Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League |
| 1896 | Is dismissed from Pittsburgh; accepts Ban Johnson's offer to manage the Milwaukee team in the Western League |
| 1901 | Buys minority interest in Milwaukee team and moves it to Philadelphia after Johnson renames league American League; team becomes the Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1910 | Athletics win first World Series and league pennant |
| 1910 | Marries Katherine Hallahan; they will have five children |
| 1914 | Facing financial difficulties, Mack sells or releases his star players, resulting in a seven-year losing streak for the Athletics |
| 1926 | Athletics play first Sunday game ever in Philadelphia, after Mack and Tom Shibe decide Sunday baseball is allowed and get court injunction to prevent police interference |
| 1929 | After Mack rebuilds the team, Athletics win league pennant and World Series; Mack is given the Edward W. Bok Prize |
| 1930-31 | Athletics win two more pennants and another World Series (1930) |
| 1933 | Great Depression forces Mack to again sell star players |
| 1937 | Becomes president and treasurer of Philadelphia Athletics, but team continues to lose |
| 1937 | Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1940 | Acquires controlling interest in the Athletics from the Ben Shibe family for $42,000 |
| 1944 | Voted favorite manager of sportswriters and players |
| 1950 | Mack retires from managing, at almost 88 years old; his sons take control of Athletics, although Mack remains president |
| 1953 | Shibe Park is renamed Connie Mack Stadium, in spite of Mack's objections |
| 1954 | Resigns as president of the Athletics, at age 92; sons persuade him to sign from his sickbed for the sale of the Athletics to Arnold M. Johnson of Chicago |
| 1955 | Johnson moves Athletics to Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1956 | Mack dies on February 8, at age 93, at daughter's home in Germantown, Pennsylvania |
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