Connie Mack Stadium will always be a field of dreams, thanks to artist Gregg Packer. Packer, an art teacher at South Mountain Middle School in Allentown, has captured the essence of the alluring ...

It’s October 1, 1970, and the sounds of ad-hoc demolition ring through Connie Mack Stadium. Chairs, railings, signage, even urinals are rended from the ground; the once glorious ball field is ...

That other ballpark, as Philadelphia sports fans know, was Shibe Park, later named Connie Mack Stadium. When it opened on April 12, 1909, the stadium with the French Renaissance facade would ...

But six decades later, the stadium, much like the intercity neighborhood that grew around it, was old, crowded, unsafe and in a state of decline. Known by that time as Connie Mack Stadium ...

When Connie Mack Stadium (known as Shibe Park before 1953) was built in 1909, it was the first concrete-and-stell baseball structure in the United States. Then, when the Philadelphia A’s (the ...

See those fascinating old photos of Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium? The score of eager telegraph operators? The hearty fans perched on Somerset Street rooftops? I’m too young to have been among ...