Local baseball legend Bobby Shantz celebrates upcoming 100th birthday with Ambler parade

Local baseball legend Bobby Shantz celebrates upcoming 100th birthday with Ambler parade

AMBLER — A stretch of Mount Pleasant Avenue was buzzing with activity during a recent afternoon as motorcycles, firetrucks and police cars passed the home of Major League Baseball legend Bobby Shantz. With Shantz nearing his 100th birthday later this month, loved ones and community leaders sought to honor him with a parade and a party. “The whole parade was a surprise,” Ambler Mayor Jeanne Sorg told MediaNews Group, adding it was a “lovely littl…

Birthday celebration for Bobby Shantz of Ambler, MLB’s oldest-living MVP, feat. by 6ABC - Around Ambler

Bobby Shantz, an Ambler resident for the past 70 years and the oldest living recipient of Major League Baseball’s Most Valuable Player award, was featured by 6ABC on Monday. On Sunday, Shantz celebrated his upcoming 100th birthday (which is on September 26) with a parade and a party which included family, friends, the Wissahickon Fire Department, Phillies ballgirls and the Phillie Phanatic. Shantz was presented with a Phillies jersey featuring t…