The fall of the 1977 Phillies : how a baseball team's collapse sank a city's spirit /
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- The fall of Philadelphia
- Professional baseball in the Quaker city
- Baseball's pre-expansion power structure : New York's boon, Philadelphia's doom
- The fall of the A's, the rise of the Phillies
- The Phillies and Philadelphia : into the abyss
- The structural renaissance of a city and its team
- Social rebirth on the streets and on the field
- Breaking from the past
- History's ultimate triumph
- Results, repercussions and reassessments.