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Eight Runs Down at Shibe Park: The A’s Rally That Changed the Series
The most famous hit of the Philadelphia Athletics’ 1929 World Series did not put them ahead.
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Hilldale Won the World Series. Its Philadelphia Story Starts in Darby.
The last game of the 1925 Colored World Series was played in Philadelphia, but the champion’s home was elsewhere. On October 10, Hilldale beat the Kansas City Monarchs 5–2 at the Baker Bowl.
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Chuck Klein Hit .386. The Phillies Still Lost 102 Games.
The Phillies had 27 hits against Pittsburgh on July 23, 1930. Don Hurst hit two home runs. They scored 15 times, enough to win almost any ordinary baseball game.
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The Pythians Could Take the Field. Baseball’s Association Kept Them Out.
The Pythian Base Ball Club had sent a representative to Harrisburg with the credentials a baseball club needed to join Pennsylvania’s state association. At the convention on October 16, 1867, the credentials committee reported favorably on other clubs.
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Three Games in Atlantic City Put the Philadelphia Giants’ Claim to the Test
By the time the Philadelphia Giants and Cuban X-Giants reached Atlantic City in September 1904, each had a reason to believe a championship belonged to it. The X-Giants had beaten Philadelphia in a seven-game series the year before and advertised themselves as the “Colored Base Ball Champions of the World.” Philadelphia had remade its club with players from that very opponent.
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The Wire Beneath the Phillies’ Coach’s Box
Tommy Corcoran was supposed to be playing shortstop. Instead, during the third inning of a September 1900 game in Philadelphia, the Cincinnati Reds player began digging into the dirt around the third-base coach’s box.
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A Phillies Game, a Rotten Balcony—and a Fight Over Blame
The baseball game was tied when the sound from beyond the ballpark began drawing attention. On August 8, 1903, the Phillies and Boston were in the fourth inning of the second game of a doubleheader. Spectators in the bleachers turned toward a disturbance on 15th Street. Some moved onto a wooden passageway that overlooked it.
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The Grounder That Kept the Phillies’ 1980 Pennant Hopes Alive
With Nolan Ryan on the mound and a three-run lead, Houston needed six more outs to win the National League pennant. Philadelphia needed something less grand than a home run to begin its comeback. It needed a ground ball to go somewhere other than a fielder’s glove.
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Baker Bowl’s Famous “Hump” May Have Been in the Street, Not the Outfield
Baker Bowl’s rail connection was real. The familiar outfield-hump explanation is harder to prove.
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The Philadelphia Stars Won the Pennant. The Argument Outlived It.
Philadelphia’s 1934 Stars won the pennant in eight games. The dispute over how they won still tests what the surviving record can say.