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#47: The Graveyard of Baseball [the last day at Connie Mack Stadium]

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by Kivi

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09.20.2021



It was supposed to be a celebration of sixty years of baseball… and instead, well, Philadelphia fans did what Philadelphia fans do best.

Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, and Bruce Kuklik’s TO EVERYTHING A SEASON: SHIBE PARK AND URBAN PHILADELPHIA, 1909-1976.

Script, full sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-graveyard-of-baseball/

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