Lent immediate legitimacy to the fledgling American League when he jumped to the Philadelphia A's from the Phillies in 1901 and hit .426, the modern record. He is 14th in career hits (3,242 ...

The team had three future Hall of Famers in the lineup with Ed Delahanty at first base, Nap Lajoie (photo ... had signed not only the Phillies' three star players but a handful of others, most of them ...

Connie Mack was an astute judge of talent and assembled a club from sandlots and also by "raiding" the Phillies of the National League who had been a Philadelphia fixture ... George Kell, Nap Lajoie, ...