Phillies 1980!: Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Philadelphia's First World Series Championship
By (Author) Lew Freedman
Sports Publishing LLC
Sports Publishing LLC
2nd June 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
Sports teams and clubs
796.357640974811
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 27mm
505g
How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History
The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, often-unpopular manager who sought to shape a collection of All-Star talent into champions.
In the
Lew Freedman is the author of nearly sixty books on sports, including Clouds over the Goalpost, The Original Six, and A Summer to Remember, and is the winner of more than 250 journalism awards. A veteran sportswriter, Freedman was formerly a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Tribune, as well as other papers across the country, and currently resides in Cody, Wyoming.