Presented here for the first time ever at an auction house are some 2 000+ incredible pages of original entries into the business and sometimes personal accounts of the fabled Philadelphia Athletics franchse owned and managed by Connie Mack. These ledgers span some 40+ years from 1915-1953. The records were used exclusively by heralded author Norman Macht for his three-book trilogy of the Athletics' rise and fall under Mack drew from the historially accurate and irrefutable evidence of the team's business dealings and player salaries. The discovery of this long-missing treasure has been highlighted in several newspaper articles including a 2011 piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer. First the amazing story of how the ledgers themselves made the incredible journey spanning the country for more than a century: Most historians assumed these entries were lost to the ages never to be seen again. For the better part of 50 years they seemed to be correct. Historians such as Macht were aware of the existence of these ledgers because not long after the A's were sold to Kansas City businessman Arnold Johnson in 1954 Philadelphia newspapers included several mentions of them. The ledgers were moved with the franchise to Kansas City and then Oakland where they seemed to vanish. Over the years sportswriters and historials had often inquired about the records and a new generation of club executives assumed they had vanished. Until 2011 no one had any reason to doubt them. Macht couldn't uncover them in either Kansas City or Oakland. "I found a former secretary who remembered seeing the files in a closet gathering dust " Macht was quoted in the 2011 article "She thought she recalled that during an office remodeling in the 1970s they had been thrown in a dumpster behind the Coliseum." Her recollection was accurate. A stadium worker discovered them there and rescued them from the trash. They remained in his possession until 2009 when he sold them for the paltry sum of $200 at an Oakland flea market. The dealer listed the ledgers along with some other materials on eBay where they were purchased by an advanced collector for $5 000. Two years later that collector sold them privately to our consignor. The historical importance of the records cannot be overstated. They are a complete and accurate chronicle of all the business dealings of one of the game's most important ballclubs including every penny of income and expense over a pariod of half a century. More than a thousand pages of financial transactions are entered neatly handwritten in the penmanship of several different people. The financial ledgers include data on gate receipts concessions even revenues from non-baseball activities like football games and advertising. Expenses include a detailed recor