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Show 65th Season Ahead , Venerable Connie Mack, just turned 85, is looking forward to his 65th year in baseball. The ancient and active chief of the Philadelphia Athletics is shown holding a "white elephant," which became the Athletics' symbol as a result of a remark by John McGraw, who said in 1901 when the American League was about to begin its first season: sea-son: "And in Philadelphia. Connie Con-nie Mack has a 'white elephant on his hands." The A's won nine pennants and five world series. |