Philadelphia Baseball History

In the summer of 1993, the Philadelphia Phillies seemed invincible to many in the baseball world. But all of that came to a screeching halt one night in October. And no, I’m not talking about the infamous home run no Phillies fan should be forced to rewatch. The fact is, Joe Carter’s walk-off home run was a foregone conclusion; a moment sealed in fate by events that unfolded just days earlier. It was October 20, 1993.  The Phillies appeared to have game 4 of the World Series sewn up with a five run lead going into the late innings. A Phillies win would have tied up the series at 2, with one game left in Philadelphia, and potentially 2 more in Toronto. But in the top of the eighth, all hell broke loose, robbing Phillies fans of much of their hope of capping off what had been an incredible season with the franchise’s second World Series win in its 110 year history in the major leagues. Riding High Phillies fever swept through the Delaware Valley in the summer of 1993. That season Phillie

Did Bill Veeck really have a plan to integrate Major League Baseball as early as 1943? Some fans and baseball writers will repeat without question or criticism Veeck's boast concerning his alleged attempt to buy the hapless Philadelphia Phillies after the 1942 season. Veeck first made this claim in is 1962 autobiography, "Veeck, as in Wreck."   Veeck's Plan to Integrate Baseball   Veeck asserted that he worked with others, including Harlem Globetrotters owner and sports agent, Abe Saperstein and an African-American sports editor of the Chicago Defender, Doc Young, to field a baseball team made up of Negro League All-Stars, such as Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. Once he had bought the Phillies, Veeck would have replaced all of the players with a baseball team made up entirely of these Negro League Stars. Had the plan been successful, Veeck boasted that he would have turned the Phillies from a perennial basement dweller to a pennant winner.   Efforts to Keep Baseball Se