Roy Mack
Roy Francis McGillicuddy (August 27, 1888 – February 11, 1960), known as Roy Mack, was an American baseball team executive owner who co-owned the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League with his brother Earle Mack from through . Mack was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888, the son of Hall of Fame manager and former Athletics owner Connie Mack and Gertrude Browning Chaffee. His paternal grandparents, Michael McGillicuddy and Mary McKillop, were born in Ireland. He grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he attended Worcester Academy. Roy Mack's baseball career was focused on front office administration and management. After serving as business manager of the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League, which had a working agreement with the Athletics, he joined the Philadelphia front office in 1936 as a vice president. In August 1950, he and Earle Mack became majority owners of the club during a reorganization. But they could not arrest the club's declining perform ...
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Philadelphia Athletics
The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, the team became the Oakland Athletics, their current identity and location. The beginning The Western League had been renamed the American League in 1900 by league president Bancroft (Ban) Johnson, and declared itself the second major league in 1901. Johnson created new franchises in the east and eliminated some franchises in the west. Philadelphia had a new franchise created to compete with the National League's Philadelphia Phillies. Former catcher Connie Mack was recruited to manage the club. Mack in turn persuaded Phillies minority owner Ben Shibe as well as others to invest in the team, which would be called the Philadelphia Athletics, a name taken from the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, which had been a founding member of the NL in 1876 bu ...
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