Spalding then coaxed teammates Deacon White, Ross Barnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players Cap Anson and Bob Addy, to sign with Chicago.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

Somers, a wealthy industrialist and also co-owner of the Boston Americans, lent money to other team owners, including Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, to keep them and the new league afloat.

When Kling returned the next year, the Cubs won the pennant again, but lost to the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1910 World Series.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

Reiter claimed to have invented the overhead spiral pass while playing professional football as a player-coach for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League ( 1902 ).

The Athletics baseball franchise played in the city of fountains from 1955 to 1967, after moving from Philadelphia and before moving to Oakland.

* 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

The " Athletics " name originates from the late 19th century " athletic clubs ", specifically the Philadelphia Athletics baseball club.

They are most prominently nicknamed " the A's ", in reference to the Gothic script " A ", a trademark of the team and the old Athletics of Philadelphia.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in as the Philadelphia Athletics.

After two decades of decline, however, the team left Philadelphia for Kansas City in and became the Kansas City Athletics.

The Athletics ' name originated in the term " Athletic Club " for local gentlemen's clubs — dates to 1860 when an amateur team, the Athletic ( Club ) of Philadelphia, was formed.

According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California in 1968.

The team has played at several stadiums in the city, beginning with Recreation Park and continuing at Baker Bowl ; Shibe Park, which was later renamed Connie Mack Stadium in honor of the longtime Philadelphia Athletics manager ; Veterans Stadium ; and now Citizens Bank Park.

The City Series was the name of a series of baseball games played between the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League and the Phillies that ran from 1903 through 1955.

From 1978 to 2003, the Phillies inducted one former Phillie and one former member of the Philadelphia Athletics per year.

The Giants won the 1905 World Series over the Philadelphia Athletics, with Christy Mathewson nearly winning the series single-handedly.

The rivalry with the Oakland Athletics dates back to when the Giants were in New York and the A's were in Philadelphia and was renewed in 1968, when the Athletics moved from Kansas City.

They and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the only MLB California teams to originate in California ; the Dodgers and Giants are originally from New York, and the Athletics are originally from Philadelphia.

In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition, obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, and also the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy of Design.

Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. in 1890.

On February 26, 1890, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported:

On January 20, 1890, a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote:

* James Pollock ( September 11, 1810-April 19, 1890 )-Congressman ( 1844 – 1849 ); Governor of Pennsylvania ( 1855 – 1858 ); Director of the Philadelphia Mint ( 1861 – 1866 and 1869 – 1873 ); buried in Milton Cemetery.

In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia.

* Philadelphia Athletics ( American Association ), played in the American Association from 1882 through 1890

From 1890 until 1893 Taylor worked as a general manager and a consulting engineer to management for the Manufacturing Investment Company of Philadelphia, a company that operated large paper mills in Maine and Wisconsin.

* Bridge of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company Crossing the Schuylkill River at Filbert Street, Philadelphia, October, 18, 1890 by D. J.

* Chapters from the religious history of Spain connected with the Inquisition ( Philadelphia, 1890 )

The first free Catholic high school in the United States was the " Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia ", founded for the education of boys in 1890.

By 1876, nearly 25, 000 African Americans living in Philadelphia, and by 1890 the population was near 40, 000.

# S. N. Patten, Economic Basis of Protection ( Philadelphia, 1890 )

The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine as The Sign of the Four ( five-word title ), appearing in both London and Philadelphia.

Caloric Corporation began as the Klein Stove Company in Philadelphia in 1890.

* John Sterling, player on 1890 Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, see 1890 Philadelphia Athletics season

In 1890, Hamilton was sold to the Philadelphia Phillies for cash by the Cowboys, who were ceasing their operation.

In 1890 he returned to Philadelphia.

Most notable are the Syracuse Nationals, a NBA team which played seventeen seasons in Syracuse ( 1947 – 1963 ) before moving to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and two different Major League Baseball teams: the Syracuse Stars of the National League in 1879, which didn't finish their first season, and the Syracuse Stars of the American Association in 1890.

* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

John Doukas re-established Byzantine rule in Chios, Rhodes, Smyrna, Ephesus, Sardis, and Philadelphia in 1097 – 1099.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

* 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.

In the 1978 season, the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time and won the Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles 14 – 13.

Their season ended with a loss to Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles 20 – 6 in the NFC divisional playoffs.

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

Franklin of Philadelphia ( 1986 ) – excellent scholarly study excerpt and text search

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

However, the Philadelphia Phillies cut the lead to two by the All-star break, as the Cubs sat 19 games over. 500, but they swooned late in the season, going 20 – 40 after July 31.

The Cubs finished in 4th place at 81 – 81, while Philadelphia surged, finishing with 101 wins.

Colorado won the first game in Philadelphia, 4 – 2.

The Rockies also won the second game in Philadelphia, 10 – 5, with the help of Kazuo Matsui's 4th inning grand slam.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

For the first time in franchise history, Dallas posted back-to-back shutouts when they beat division rivals Washington ( 17 – 0 ) and Philadelphia ( 24 – 0 ) to end the season.

In January 1981, the two teams faced off in the NFC Championship, with Philadelphia winning 20 – 7 ( The Eagles subsequently lost to the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XV ).

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

That three game sweep was Dallas ' first over any opponent and the longest against the Eagles since 1992 – 1995 when Dallas won seven straight matches against Philadelphia.

* 1790 – The U. S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 98: 271 – 276