Society member from Scotland visits on Saturday, September 18, 2010. Society employee Mike Fesnak shares a few minutes with our guest from across the Atlantic, Retired Judge Graham Richards of Longsdon, Straffordshire, England who told Mike he found our Museum quite by accident after enjoying his breakfast at a local restaurant he decided to walk through the “Village” and was astounded when he saw the name of the Society painted on our green awning.

The judge indicated he was a long time Athletics fan..As an aside, we have neighbors who live right around the corner who have not stopped in for all of the 12 years we have been in Hatboro!!!

SOCIETY WELCOMES MEMBER VISITOR FROM JAPAN

In the 12 years since we opened our Hatboro facility we are most proud of the distances some of our members have traveled to pay tribute to the Philadelphia Athletics. We have had visitors from Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Holland, The Netherlands, Austria, Mexico, South America. On September 10, 2010 we were pleased to greet our member Akira Matsubara as he arrived after a 24 hour trip from Tokyo as he walked through the Museum looking at all of the items from the Athletics & baseball’s glorious past.

Our visitor from Toyko, Japan, Akira Matsubara shown with employee Joan Searles who presented Akira with a complimentary Hartland figurine to take home & place on his sportswriters desk to remind him constantly of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics.