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Author | : Larry Shenk |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 163319471X |
From when the Phillies franchise was established in 1883 and a rookie manager led the team to its first National League pennant in 1915 to the World Series titles in 1980 and 2008, Larry Shenk, a longtime Phillies executive, provides insight into a potpourri of faces, places, events, and personalities in Phillies history. He takes readers through every no-hitter thrown by a Phillies pitcher and an incredible season by a relief pitcher who became the Most Valuable Player. Read about Mike Schmidt’s most dramatic home run, the youngest pitcher to ever win a game in the big leagues, the greatest one-game performance in World Series history, the most unbreakable records in franchise history, and why the Phillies held spring training in Pennsylvania during the 1940s.
Author | : Tyler Kepner |
Publisher | : Mvp Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0760342776 |
Highlights the stories, athletes, and memorable moments that have defined the Philadelphia Phillies since the franchise's founding in 1883.
Author | : Steve Fulton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
If you love baseball, then you will love reading about the history of the Philadelphia Phillies. Inside you will read about every season in Phillies history, including players stats, Playoff and World Series line scores and game recaps. Since 1883, the Phillies have a rich history and part of American lore for baseball fans in the Tri-State area and across America. Relive some of the great seasons, games and moments in Phillies history.
Author | : Harry T. Paxton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Baseball |
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Author | : Brian C. Engelhardt |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1439652783 |
While Reading may be known today for the Fightin' Phils, it has also been the site of 72 games played by 17 major-league franchises and barnstorming teams since 1874. Among the teams that have played in these exhibition games are the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals, along with appearances by baseball greats Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mike Schmidt, Ernie Banks, and Rogers Hornsby. Reading fans have looked on as both the 1906 Phillies and A's tried to catch a bunny on the field mid-game, cheered for Christy Mathewson's shutouts, sang "Happy Birthday" to Pete Rose, and watched "Shoeless" Joe Jackson hit a home run.
Author | : Bob Gordon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1613214316 |
More than twenty former and current Philadelphia Phillies players share their fondest single-game experience and memories with author Bob Gordon. Many of the moments celebrate the extraordinary events that have shaped the Phillies’ rich heritage. Curt Simmons, John Vukovich, Kevin Jordan, Del Unser, Doug Glanville, and Tug McGraw are just a few of the legendary Phillies stars who discuss the games of their lives. Even Phillie Phanatics I and II join in the fun. This book is the ticket for Philadelphia Phillies fans everywhere to travel back to many of the big games and moments that have shaped the team and franchise during its 131-year history in the City of Brotherly Love.
Author | : Norman Lee Macht |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2019-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 149621417X |
Noted baseball historian Norman L. Macht brings together a wide‑ranging collection of baseball voices from the Deadball Era through the 1970s, including nine Hall of Famers, who take the reader onto the field, into the dugouts and clubhouses, and inside the minds of both players and managers. These engaging, wide-ranging oral histories bring surprising revelations--both highlights and lowlights--about their careers, as they revisit their personal mental scrapbooks of the days when they played the game. Not all of baseball's best stories are told by its biggest stars, especially when the stories are about those stars. Many of the storytellers you'll meet in They Played the Game are unknown to today's fans: the Red Sox's Charlie Wagner talks about what it was like to be Ted Williams's roommate in Williams's rookie year; the Dodgers' John Roseboro recounts his strategy when catching for Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax; former Yankee Mark Koenig recalls batting ahead of Babe Ruth in the lineup, and sometimes staying out too late with him; John Francis Daley talks about batting against Walter Johnson; Carmen Hill describes pitching against Babe Ruth in the 1927 World Series.
Author | : James D. Szalontai |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2002-09-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780786411894 |
Sal Maglie was a feared and hated pitcher perhaps best known for his vicious knockdown pitches that made batters tremble. Yet he was also respected as a ferocious competitor, one who pitched with his arm and his head, one who could be depended upon when his team needed a victory, and one who refused to quit, even when faced with a blacklisting, crippling injuries, and advanced age. Off the field, he was an amiable man. This work chronicles the life and career of the man and the player: his unspectacular minor league career, his 1945 debut with Mel Ott's New York Giants, his blacklisting by organized baseball for playing in Jorge Pasquel's Mexican League, and his rejoining the Giants in 1950 at the age of 33. He thereupon established himself as a bona fide big league pitcher, and went on to have a stellar career in the majors that included stints with the Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. Game-by-game analyses of Maglie's professional career, intimate portraits of the men Maglie played with and against--Mel Ott, Eddie Stanky, Monte Irvin, Jackie Robinson, Carl Furillo, Willie Mays, among others--and a look at baseball as it was played in the 1940s and 1950s are features of the book.
Author | : Rich Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781933822136 |
In The Fightin' Phils, Rich Westcott leads fans beyond common knowledge of home team lore to a treasure trove of the other stories many previously untold, all richly entertaining and surprising.
Author | : Richard Worth |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786468440 |
Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.