“The 1993 Phillies captured the imaginations of fans with their hard-edged, take-no-prisoners attitude.”-Billy Beane, executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics “The [1993] Phillies were loud, irreverent, and politically incorrect. <i>Macho Row</i> vividly re-creates their rowdy, memorable season, warts and all.”-Paul Hagen, former baseball writer for the <i>Philadelphia Daily News</i> “Inspiring as well as tragic, <i>Macho Row</i> is ultimately a cautionary tale about the price some athletes pay after their playing days are over.”-Al Tielemans, photographer for <i>Sports Illustrated</i>
Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable season with an up-close look at the players’ lives, the team’s triumphs and failures, and what made this group so unique and so successful.
With a throwback mentality, the team adhered to baseball’s Code. Designed to preserve the moral fabric of the game, the Code’s unwritten rules formed the bedrock of this diehard team whose players paid homage and respect to the game at all times. Trusting one another and avoiding ideas of superstardom, they consistently rubbed the opposition the wrong way and didn’t care. William C. Kashatus pulls back the covers on this old-school band of brothers, depicting the highs and lows and their brash style while also digging into the suspected steroid use of players on the team. Macho Row is a story of winning and losing, success and failure, and the emotional highs and lows that accompany them.
With a throwback mentality, the team adhered to baseball’s Code. Designed to preserve the moral fabric of the game, the Code’s unwritten rules formed the bedrock of this diehard team whose players paid homage and respect to the game at all times. Trusting one another and avoiding ideas of superstardom, they consistently rubbed the opposition the wrong way and didn’t care. William C. Kashatus pulls back the covers on this old-school band of brothers, depicting the highs and lows and their brash style while also digging into the suspected steroid use of players on the team. Macho Row is a story of winning and losing, success and failure, and the emotional highs and lows that accompany them.
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Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable season with an up-close look at the players' lives, the team's triumphs and failures, and what made this group so unique and so successful.
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- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Dutch
- 2. Gang of Six
- 3. Nails
- 4. Boo Birds
- 5. Krukker
- 6. Fourth Estate
- 7. Spring Training
- 8. Wild Thing
- 9. Lightning in a Bottle
- 10. Mikey
- 11. Dog Days
- 12. Inky
- 13. Hide the Women and Children!
- 14. The Series
- 15. Inspiring Moneyball
- 16. Breaking the Code
- Afterword
- Appendix A. Major League Career Statistics for Members of Macho Row
- Appendix B. Individual Hitting and Pitching Statistics for the 1993 Phillies
- Appendix C. 1993 National League Championship Series Box Scores
- Appendix D. 1993 World Series Box Scores
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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Product details
ISBN
9781496214089
Published
2019-04-01
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
372
Author