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

by Dennis Snelling

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 Pennock, would overhaul the team's operations, building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496242688
• ISBN13: 9781496242686
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 328 Pages