Talk:Connie Mack

message: The Baseball Encyclopedia lists him as born in Brookfield, not East Brookfield.  Which is right?  Badbilltucker 20:40, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The site where Mack was born is within the present limits of East Brookfield, Massachusetts, but that town was not incorporated until 1920. At the time of Mack's birth, the property was in Brookfield, Massachusetts. So, as a general statement, both are right. Mack was born in Brookfield, but his birthplace is (now) in East Brookfield. Wiki Wistah 07:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Born Where?

message: I visited the Football Hall of Fame a while ago, and I saw Connie Mack was in the HOF for owning one of the first pro football teams, the Phil. Athletics. Can we get anymore information on that?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.192.172.250 (talk) 03:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Here's some info http://ghosts.footballhistory.org/Phillies-Athletics.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.192.172.250 (talk) 04:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football? 

message: Did it remain McGillicuddy? Or did he legally change it to Mack?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.111.132 (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He never legally changed it.  However, he was always known as "Mr. Mack" (his father had been too) and his children adopted the name.  His descendants are still legally named McGillicuddy, though many go by "Mack".  Fumblebruschi (talk) 21:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  SURNAME 

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message: By the 1940s a member of the Shibe Park staff had established a procedure: He would leave the office in the last half of the seventh inning and go to the elevator section on the clubhouse level, open the door, and hold it for Mack to take Connie to his tower office. The A's played a home game against the Detroit Tigers in 1945 that lasted for 24 innings. The staffer went to the elevator about 4:30 and held the door open for about 3 hours!
Above passage reverted from article. It's not cited, out of context, and of dubious importance. JNW (talk) 21:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited anecdote

message: I have started a major overhaul of this article to add sources and bring it into line with standard article format.  I'll be editing it more over the next few days, so please discuss any changes here.  Fumblebruschi (talk) 21:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I think I'm more or less done.  I have removed the improve tags.  Fumblebruschi (talk) 18:02, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Big Rewrite

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thread_title:  [[:File:Connie Mack3.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: He was a Chicago native. I have no idea where he lived at the time of the purchase of the Philadelphia A's, but it was not Kansas City, and I doubt if he ever moved or lived there.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.136.147.109 (talk) 23:20, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arnold Johnson was not a Kansas City businessman 

message: Interesting that the other American owners were sick of playing road games in dilapidated Shibe Park in 1953, yet National League teams played the Phillies there until 1970. Was it perhaps renovated to some degree?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.136.147.109 (talk) 23:33, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shibe Park 

message: Under section Legacy, article states:  "Another rule also required managers to wear a baseball uniform if they are to be in the dugout; Mack always wore a business suit instead, which is more common for head coaches in ice hockey and basketball."
Article itself perhaps should have mentioned earlier how he always wore a business suit, distinct for (all or most????) managers of that era.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.136.147.109 (talk) 23:37, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Business Suit 

message: I wonder what was the rationale for  edit in 2008 removing the Alexander middle name, when sources like Encyclopedia Britannica and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book list that as his middle name. In contrast, Mack's autobiography states: "My mother had me christened Cornelius McGillicuddy..." Arbor to SJ (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no objection to re-adding. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 03:14, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Norman Macht's exhaustive biography there is no evidence that Mack ever, at any time, used any middle name. Mack's own autobiography does not mention it. Mack's eldest son was baptized "Cornelius McGillicuddy, Junior". What happened was that the son, at his confirmation, took the confirmation name of Saint Alexander, thus becoming "Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy, Junior". Later writers assumed the "Alexander" was inherited from the father, which it wasn't. Fumblebruschi (talk) 01:45, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle name? 

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message: Legacy:  Connie Mack World Series hosted by the city of Farmington NM since 1965. 73.242.246.13 (talk) 03:39, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connie Mack World Series