Philadelphia Phillies - The Golden Era (1950-1959)

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Titles:

Top Phillies Players of the Fifties

1950 NL Champs (Lost to Yankees in World Series)

Pitchers:

Ballpark:

Robin Roberts (60.49) - 148

Shibe Park

Curt Simmons (24.04) - 66

Jim Konstanty (6.47) - 26

Team Name:

Bob Miller (9.29) - 20

Phillies

Russ Meyer (4.54) - 19

Jack Sanford (6.62) - 17

Owners:

Bubba Church (7.04) - 16

Robert Carpenter

Murray Dickson (5.94) - 14

Karl Drews (4.39) - 14

General Managers:

Harvey Haddix (4.32) - 13

Roy Hamey (1954-1958)

Herm Wehmeier (2.94) - 11

John Quinn (1959)

Dick Farrell (5.15) - 11

Gene Conley (4.82) - 7

Managers:

Jack Meyer (5.48) - 7

Eddie Sawyer (1950-1952, 1959)

Steve O'Neill (1952-1954)

Catchers:

Terry Moore (1954)

Stan Lopata (16.26) - 41

Mayo Smith (1955-1958)

Smokey Burgess (9.07) - 25

Andy Seminick (7.28) - 19

Hall of Famers:

Richie Ashburn

First Basemen:

Robin Roberts

Ed Bouchee (7.67) - 24

Earl Torgeson (5.4) - 13

Rookie of the Year:

Eddie Waitkus (4.41) - 10

Jack Sanford (1957)

Second Basemen:

MVP

Bobby Morgan (4.97) - 12

Jim Konstanty (1950)

Connie Ryan (5.79) - 11

Sparky Anderson (0.01) - 0

No Hitters:

None

ShortStop:

Granny Hamner (17.38) - 50

Cy Young:

Chico Fernandez (1.8) - 14

None

Third Base:

Notable Events:

Puddin Head Jones (21.7) - 44

1950 - The Phillies blow a seven game lead with eleven games

Outfield:

left and have a one game lead over the Dodgers on the final

Richie Ashburn (50.88) - 145

day of the season. They beat the Dodgers in ten innings

Del Ennis (17.38) - 46

on Dick Sisler's three run homer to win the pennant.

Harry Anderson (5.64) - 21

The Phillies are dubbed the Whiz Kids as the youngsters that

Wally Post (2.08) - 12

Herb Pennock had signed lead the way: Ashburn; Ennis; Jones;

Dick Sisler (5.7) - 11

Hamner; Roberts and Simmons

Notable Events:

1951 - Philadelphia drops twenty games in the standings and

finishes fifth. Curt Simmons went into the military, Jim Konstanty

1955 - Richie Ashburn is batting champ

lost his effectiveness and Andy Seminick and Del Ennis, who had

combined for 55 homers in 1950, get less than half that in '51.

1958 - Richie Ashburn is batting champ

It begins a run of mediocrity, seven straight fourth or fifth place

finishes over which time the Whiz Kids move on to becoming

1958 - The Phillies seven year run of mediocrity is over.

Wheeze kids..

They now become doormats.

1954 - The A's move to Kansas City. Shibe Park, originally

1958 - Hamey is axed. John Quinn is hired away from the Braves.

the Park of the A's is now the Phillies' all alone. The move of the

Quinn had the bloodlines, as his father had been an outstanding

A's was a huge irony. A decade earlier and it would have been

baseball man (who had the misfortune of running the two Boston

the Phillies who were moving. The A's owned the town for most

teams when they were both penniless). John was a chip off the old

of the first half of the Twentieth century. Even tho' the A's were

block and was a breath of fresh air for the Phillies who had been

woeful much of the time, the Phillies were woeful all of the time.

floundering for a decade after Herb Pennock's death

However, when the age of moving franchises came to being, the

Phillies were relatively up and the A's were down.

1954 - Bob Carpenter realizes that he hasn't added a single meaningful

player to the group that Pennock signed. He hires Roy Hamey as

General Manager. Hamey comes from the Yankees, but brings no

Yankee magic with him. It turns out that the guys who were making

magic in New York were George Weiss, Lee MacPhail and Casey

Stengel. Hamey had just been riding on their coattails. Altho' in

Hamey's defense, he was a pretty good GM prior to his Yankee

tenure when with the Pirates, but seemed to have lost his mojo after that.