Philadelphia's Top Fifty Baseball Players

Authors

Rich Westcott

Date of this Version

Spring 2013

Comments

© 2013 by Rich Westcott.

Foreword © 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Philadelphias-Top-Fifty-Baseball-Players,675664.aspx

Abstract

Philadelphia’s Top Fifty Baseball Players takes a look at the greatest players in Philadelphia baseball history from the earliest days in 1830 through the Negro Leagues and into the modern era. Their ranks include batting champions, home run kings, Most Valuable Players, Cy Young Award winners, and Hall of Famers—from Ed Delahanty, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Roy Campanella, Mike Schmidt, and Ryan Howard to Negro League stars Judy Johnson and Biz Mackey and other Philadelphia standouts such as Richie Ashburn, Dick Allen, Chuck Klein, Eddie Collins, and Reggie Jackson. For each player the book highlights memorable incidents and accomplishments and, above all, his place in Philadelphia’s rich baseball tradition.