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Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a ballpark located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League (AL) and the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL). When it opened April 12, 1909, it became baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium. [3]
Shibe Park. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In baseball’s landscape of horse buggies and wooden carts, Shibe Park emerged as the Model T of ballparks, a sparkling trendsetter that introduced steel and concrete to the game’s vernacular, beget rooftop entrepreneurs long before Wrigley and brought the game out of its lumbered, fire-cursed squalor.
Mar 4, 2013 · Shibe Park, later known as Connie Mack Stadium, goes back to the Philadelphia Athletics, its original occupant, and their owner Benjamin Franklin Shibe. When Shibe in 1901 took charge of the new team, one of eight clubs in the brand-new American League, he could not have foreseen that the Athletics would become so popular so quickly.
SHIBE PARK. Philadelphia, PA. Located in North Philadelphia and opening in 1909 as the home of the Philadelphia Athletics, Shibe Park’s innovation influenced baseball and the next wave of ballparks, setting the standard for future ballparks built in the 20th century.
Shibe Park, the first of 11 steel and concrete baseball parks built over a five-year period, originally had a seating capacity of 23,000.
A beloved and iconic theater for baseball, Shibe Park (later renamed Connie Mack Stadium) stood from 1909 through 1970. The palatial venue hosted two All-Star Games and eight World Series. It...
Nov 12, 2014 · Home of the Philadelphia Athletics(1910-1954) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1938-1970) On a Shibe Park/CMS kick today. If you haven't seen this one it's great. Early 1960s. #Phillies pic.twitter.com/NYW6TTZ9A3. — MLBcathedrals (@MLBcathedrals) November 12, 2014.
In baseball’s landscape of horse buggies and wooden carts, Shibe Park emerged as the Model T of ballparks, a sparkling trendsetter that introduced steel and concrete to the game’s vernacular, beget rooftop entrepreneurs long before Wrigley and brought the game out of its lumbered, fire-cursed squalor.
Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a baseball park located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League (AL) and the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL).
Shibe Park, known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a ballpark located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League (AL) and the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL).
