The Whiz Kids: How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant, Lost the World Series, and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496242686ISBN-10:1496242688UPC:9781496242686Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, United StatesBook Topic:History, State & LocalSize:9.23 x 6.41 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCN6M8JEF9
The Whiz Kids: How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant, Lost the World Series, and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever
Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies had won only a single National League title in more than sixty years. For the next five years, Carpenter and the newly hired general manager, Herb...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496242686ISBN-10:1496242688UPC:9781496242686Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, United StatesBook Topic:History, State & LocalSize:9.23 x 6.41 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCN6M8JEF9
Dennis Snelling is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Pacific Coast League Historical Society. He is the author of Lefty O'Doul: Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador (Nebraska, 2017), Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life, and The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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