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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]
The first concrete-and-steel stadium in the majors, it was completed in less than one year. City block on which the ballpark was built measured 520 feet along 21st and 20th Streets; 481 feet, 3 inches along Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street. Named for Ben Shibe, an Athletics stockholder and baseball manufacturer.
4 de mar. de 2013 · Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium (Philadelphia) – Society for American Baseball Research. This article was written by James Lincoln Ray. Shibe Park, later known as Connie Mack Stadium, goes back to the Philadelphia Athletics, its original occupant, and their owner Benjamin Franklin Shibe.
- Mr. Mack, Tear Down This Wall!
- For Rent.
- It’S All Yours Now—Good Luck.
Slowly, but just as surely, Connie Mack dismantled his second dynasty in the mid-1930s. This time, he had the Great Depression to blame—as did most everyone in baseball at this point—but he also claimed the A’s became so dominant a team that the fans began taking it for granted; attendance, Mack theorized, would be more optimal if the A’s fought to...
The A’s soon would benefit from several new tenants. Midway through the 1938 season, the Phillies fled the badly deteriorating Baker Bowl just a half-mile to the east and begin play at Shibe because, why have one bad team at the local ballpark when you can have two? The Phillies were just as moribund as the A’s, and eternally so; they had no recent...
The Phillies, which had bought Connie Mack Stadium from the A’s in 1954 for $1.7 million, began to spruce up the park as the sole baseball tenant. A fresh new field was planted, the seats were repainted in Phillies Red, billboards were placed on the outfield walls and atop the left field bleachers for the first time, and a towering new scoreboard w...
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). When it opened April 12, 1909, it became baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium.
Click For Team HistoryFirst Game(last Game)04-12-1909(09-19-1954)First Game05-16-1927Last Game05-28-1927First Game07-04-1938Last GameLand in a mostly isolated part of Philadelphia was purchased, and ultimately the stadium was built at a cost of $315,248.69. 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.
Connie Mack Stadium, named after the long time manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, was named that in 1953. Previously it was called Shibe Park after Ben Shibe, an A's stockholder and baseball manufacturer. This was the first concrete and steel park built. It paved the way for Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, and others.
