Sunbury Athletics

Interstate League (1950)

Tombstone

Born: October 4, 1949 – Affiliation change from Sunbury Reds¹
Affiliation Change: September 26, 1950 (Sunbury Giants)²

First Game: April 26, 1950 (L 4-2 @ Wilmington Blue Rocks)
Last Game: September 4, 1950 (L 9-8, L 6-5 @ Harrisburg Senators)

Governor’s Cup Championships: None

Stadium

Memorial Park

Ownership & Affiliations

Owner: Sunbury Baseball Association (Basse Beck, President)

Major League Affiliation: Philadelphia Athletics

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Source: The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (3rd ed.), Lloyd Johnson & Miles Wolff, 2007

Background

The 1950 Sunbury Athletics were a Class B farm club of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics. This Pennsylvania-based club competed in the Interstate League, which was composed of eight clubs that summer, representing the mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia A’s were in a state of terminal decay at the dawn of the 1950’s and were incapable of providing Sunbury with either a winning ballclub or promising Major League prospects. Sunbury finished the 1950 Interstate League season in last place with a 53-86 record.

Only two Sunbury Athletics players, infielder Jack Littrell and pitcher Dutch Romberger, would advance to the Majors and neither would ever play a full season with a Major League club. (Several older players on the Sunbury team, including 34-year old player-manager George Staller, had prior Major League experience during the 1940’s).