Movin' on Up: Baseball and Philadelphia Then, Now, and Always

by Robert Gordon and Tom Burgoyne

Movin' On Up takes a fun ride through the then-and-now of a great city and its ball club. The city and its team have cooked up a partnership as strong and as strange as scrapple and toast over the past 121 years. Since 1883, the Phillies have been on the move-at times slowly, many times glacially, and sometimes quickly. Movin' On Up layers the present on the past by revisiting the places the Fightin' Phils once called their new home. But Movin' On...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975441930
• ISBN13: 9780975441930
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Middle Atlantic Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

moving along and moving on up

I couldn't put this book down. These two guys latch on to that movin' on up theme and never let go - from 1883 right on up to the present. I finished the book in a day and ended up wanting them to cover so many more stories and legends. They said in the introduction that they wouldn't and couldn't cover everything. That was my only disappointment - that they didn't, but then the book would have been several thousand pages long! The inside story of the Phillie Phanatic losing his head and the two aurhors' serious reflections about Veteran's Stadium were worth the price just all by themselves. I hope they come out with Movin' On Up volume 2!