Athletics Mugs
Description: This is a vintage recreation of a classic matchbook cover of stomper the white elephant the mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Kansas City Athletics baseball team. This design is not affiliated with, licensed, sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by any college, university, pro team league, or other artists, athletes, other brands, or any licensing entity. All art and designs are recreated from non-copyrighted tickets, decals, matchbooks, pennants, and non-copyrighted publications/programs. If you have a valid intellectual property concern about this design please send a message.
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Description: Pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle, Washington. Three dads – Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum — whose kids were bored with their usual summertime activities — are credited for creating game. Pickleball has evolved from original handmade equipment and simple rules into a popular sport throughout the US and Canada. The game is growing internationally as well, with many European and Asian countries adding courts.
Description: The Birmingham Athletics (A’s) were the Class AA farm club of the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics from 1967 to 1975. The Southern League ballclub was owned directly by Oakland’s colorful, spendthrift owner Charles O. Finley. The Athletics had a phenomenal farm system in the late 1960’s and many of the great ballplayers from Oakland’s 1972-1974 World Series dynasty spent time in Birmingham on their way up the developmental ladder.
