The title says it all, this is the ultimate Philadelphia A's reference book with over one thousand two hundred bios of virtually every person, player, coach, and manager who ever wore an A's uniform and/or appeared in a A's box score as well as those of numerous support personnel, farm system players—some who came close to making it to the major and some who didn't. It also includes a complete season-by-season rundown, key trades, league leaders and honors, the everyday players, plus all kinds of other interesting information about this legendary baseball club.
The Ultimate Philadelphia Athletics Reference Book 1901-1954
is also author Ted Taylor's homage to Messrs. Johnson and Carmichael. As with his first book, he writes about the lesser players, guys who got a short look—maybe one game, maybe just an invitation to spring training, maybe even a transient one as they were traded from one team to the A's and then shipped off to another before ever pulling on a Philadelphia uniform—as well as the twenty A's icons now residing in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.