Overview :In October 1954, the Philadelphia Athletics relocated to Kansas City, putting an end to more than a half-century of American League baseball... Read More
Overview :Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played stood for decades until Cal Ripken Jr. broke it in 1995. Most people remember Gehrig for th... Read More
Overview :The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Undergrou... Read More
Overview :Being a Phillies fan has never been easy. The team has amassed the most losses of any professional sports franchise in history, as well as t... Read More
Overview :Michael Jack Schmidt, in the minds of many the greatest third baseman of all time, was a Philadelphia institution. From 1973 to 1989 he led ... Read More
Overview :Charles Albert Bender was one of baseball's most talented pitchers. By the end of his major league career in 1925, he had accrued 212 wins a... Read More
Overview :Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny ... Read More
Overview :Everything seemed to be going the Phillies' way. Up by 6 1/2 games with just 12 left to play in the 1964 season, they appeared to have clinc... Read More
Overview :Baseball star Richie "Dick" Allen forced Philadelphians to address the racism that existed in their city during the 1960s. While his candid ... Read More
Overview :Blue-Eyed Soul Brother tells the life story of NFL All-Pro free safety Bill Bradley, who was known on the gridiron as much for his fierce co... Read More
Overview :On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Cape Cod. Mary J... Read More
Overview :It has been said that Connie Mack managed only two kinds of teams during his half-century in the City of Brother Love--unbeatable and lousy.... Read More
Overview :Lefty and Tim is the dual biography of Hall of Fame pitcher Steve "Lefty" Carlton and catcher Tim McCarver, detailing their relationship fro... Read More
Overview :Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs--specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)--provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur b... Read More
Overview :As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break profess... Read More
Overview :Spitballer is the biography of one of baseball's greatest pitchers. Stan Coveleski was a quiet, modest man, the youngest and most successful... Read More
Overview :Located just over the Mason-Dixon line dividing free and slave states, Chester County was an important and dangerous junction on the Undergr... Read More
Overview :In the spring of 1945 Pete Gray, who had lost his right arm in a childhood accident, made his debut with the St. Louis Browns of the America... Read More