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 | #2664342 in Books |  2007-11-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.96 x.61 x6.02l,.83 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Ambitious Concept That Does Not Always Work|By Leslie E.|Mr. Nathanson's premise is an interesting one in that he ties the fortunes of the Phillies to those of the city of Philadelphia, at least from a parallel historical perspective. I don't agree with all his suppositions, but he presents his arguments well and gives a wonderful history of Philadelphia from a political, raci| |"Goes beyond the Phils' playoff loss to examine how it affected Philadelphia's self image" --The SABR Bulletin|About the Author|Lifelong Phillies fan Mitchell Nathanson is an associate professor of legal writ

On October 7, 1977, the Philadelphia Phillies lost a playoff game to the Dodgers, a game that began so hopefully and ended so disastrously that it has become known in Philadelphia simply as "Black Friday." As a season of rare hope and unity crashed to a painful end in a ten-minute sequence of bad plays, so too did the city's urban renaissance falter and an old sense of inferiority return.

This ambitious examination of the relationship between the team and city de...

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