The Whiz Kids: How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant Lost the World Series and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever (Hardcover)

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 th...