Perhaps Carpenters chief contribution to the Phillies, though, was the dignity he gave to a flimsy franchise. Front Office Executive David Dombrowski has put together a formidable quartet Of quality closers for his Philadelphia Phillies. Relief pitcher Jim Konstanty won the leagues Most Valuable Player Award as a relief pitcher. Gerry, it was said, was always just one step ahead of the sheriff. We need to take advantage of the moment while we can, and our ownership group has shown us time and time again that they wont do anything to help. Later, he attended Duke University, where he earned a varsity letter as an end on the football team. Carpenter sold Connie Mack Stadium in 1964 to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman for a meager $600,000. The Phillies continued to play there, while the campaign for a new ballpark staggered along. And Nugent had to peddle his stars to raise cash. Just imagine for a second how different things would be if someone like Pat Croce, Ed Rendell, or heck even Comcast-Spectacor was running the team. Klentak was only 35 years old at the time, the youngest GM in Phillies history. Before retiring, Reach sold his company to the rival Spalding firm. 1. Trust me, they are NOT LOSING MONEY. When Bill Giles bowed out in 1997, Montgomery was named general partner, president, and chief executive officer. By then the Phillies had run the gamut from pennant winner to doormat to pennant contender to mediocrity. The Phillies ranked fifth in the National League this year in runs (747) and on-base percentage (.317). John S. Middleton is in his mid-fifties and splits his time between Bryn Mawr and Stone Harbor. Ruly Carpenter III watched his team and the sport it played change completely. But that was one day of happiness. A bonus of $65,000 went to Curt Simmons, $25,000 to Roberts, and lesser amounts to Ashburn, Del Ennis, Granny Hamner, Willie Jones, Stan Lopata, Bob Miller, Bubba Church, and others. Some of Coxs maneuvers and statements were given a poor press and the public reacted unfavorably, said Ed Pollock in the Evening Bulletin. At one point, almost as an aside, Harris told reporters that Cox had a habit of betting on the Phillies. I hate to lose. When Waitkus was shot in 1950 by a deranged woman, Bob ordered the best available medical care. The Phillies moved out of Baker Bowl in midseason in 1938, shifting seven blocks away to Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, at 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue. If anybody goes into this business for money, he once said, he should have his head examined., But Carpenter wasnt anxious to lose money, either. Officially known as Tri-Play Associates, the three brothers are involved with T.D.H. They are the nucleus of our club, the foundation from which we must build.. He held daily conferences with manager Dooin on ways to improve the team. But his efforts suddenly ended. In his nine years as president of the Phillies, Robert R.M. The tactic backfired when infielder Granny Hamner discovered that he was being trailed home after a game. It usually cost about $350,000 a year to operate the team, $250,000 of that going for payroll. The club seldom drew many more than 200,000 fans for the season, falling below that mark twice and going above 250,000 just once. By the spring of 1964, he and then-scout Paul Owens worked together, evaluating the talent on the lowest minor-league teams in the Phillies chain. He appointed the team's first general manager, Herb Pennock, during his tenure. The attendance, 156,421 in 1933, jumped to 169,885 in 1934 and then to 205,470 the following year. He said that he, along with other owners, would run Baker out of baseball. Under Montgomerys watch, Ed Wade was elevated to the post of general manager in 1998. Bill Giles hired David Montgomery in 1971 to work in the Phillies' ticket sales office and he later became Sales Director. He was a tough-minded businessman who described himself as an awful skinflint and who worked hard to achieve success with the Phillies. As president, MacPhail had a major role in the decision-making process. A former college professor who became an Oscar-winning film producer, Jeff Lurie has the NFLs 10th most valuable team back in the Super Bowl for the second time in five years. We increased our payroll 25 percent. In 1868 he was named first-team All-American by the New York Clipper. Over the years, Nugent sold and traded away a virtual All-Star team, including Bucky Walters, Dolph Camilli, Claude Passeau, Johnny Moore, Ethan Allen, Kirby Higbe, Curt Davis, Morrie Arnovich, Spud Davis, Dick Bartell, Pinky Whitney, and Klein. He admitted that things had not been right in the past, but that now they had swung the other way. Even Giants manager John McGraw, however, who had been the beneficiary of some of Bakers trades, got tired of Bakers foibles. Cox, who was once described as impatient, impetuous, and inexperienced, was embroiled in one fracas after another. The Philadelphia Phillies are 38-19 under interim manager Rob Thomson since he was promoted from bench coach to replace Joe Girardi on June 3. Carpenter also became the owner of the Wilmington Blue Bombers, a professional team then in the American Basketball League, and he was the driving force behind the construction of a new stadium in that city. He was replaced by Gerald P. Nugent. Albert Wiler was installed as the interim president of a franchise that was in a state of limbo. Although he had become a full-time businessman, Reach retained his contacts in baseball. At the age of 21 he was earning $15 a month on a farm, plus 50 cents for each cord of wood he cut. Simple as that. For putting the ownership deal together, Giles was given a 10 percent share of the team and ran it for the other owners; the era of the Phillies' silent partners commenced. Bill Giles handed over his general partner position to David Montgomery in 1997, who also took a sliver of the company. Jarrod Saltalamacchia was the cheapest player with the highest percentage owned at 46.7 percent and $2,200. Eventually, they all took major roles on the team. As he later would demonstrate, that went for established players, too. Later called Huntingdon Street Grounds and then Baker Bowl, the park was used by the Phillies for 51 years. A former publisher and editor of Phillies Report, he has written eight books on the Phillies, including the local best-selling Phillies Encyclopedia, plus three books on Philadelphias ballparks. Nugent had none, and neither did his hapless charges. Giles was also a member of the rules committee and the National League executive committee, and he was on the committee that recommended interleague play and the inclusion of more than four teams in each leagues postseason playoffs. At a press conference, Cox declared, The Phillies will not want for an all-out show of energy, alertness and winning spirit. He also said, Whoever the manager is, there will never be an attempt on my part to interfere. The statement would sound hollow a few months later. The only times the team could expect to attract much of a crowd were Saturday afternoons and holidays. And he soon justified his salary, which was said to be $1,000 for the season. He packed his major- and minor-league rosters with pitcher like Short, Bob Miller, Jack Meyer, Jim Owens, Don Cardwell, Dick Farrell, Jack Sanford, Dallas Green, Art Mahaffey, Ray Culp, Dennis Bennett, and Rick Wise. But after the 1914 season, Baker did something right. A score of 120 means that the team achieved 20% moreompared with the league average during the 2021 season. The team, which averaged just 26 years old, justified the $2 million that Bob by then had pumped into a long-range development plan. A glib, convincing talker, Cox had the promotional instincts of a circus barker and a head substantially less knowledgeable for running a baseball team than he thought it was. The Fightin Phils Oddities, Insights, and Untold Stories (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2008). Thus Reach and Rogers had to start from scratch, recruiting players and even finding a ballpark. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library). Montgomery would go on to preside and be a part-owner of the Phillies during the greatest era in team history. Pennock was a former pitcher and a future Hall of Famer. While Nugents mind worked overtime, his players did little else but lose. For decades the Phillies had been hampered by the absence of Sunday baseball. Giles had also gotten some flak for trading away future Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg in 1981, and for breaking up the 1980 and 1983 championship teams, perhaps prematurely and with little in return. The winner was Blue Jays. After the game, Carpenter treated all comers to a chicken dinner at the local fire hall. Giles broke the logjam by signing Parrish, who had become a free agent after playing with the Detroit Tigers. The remark landed like an exploded bomb. Klein signed a three-year contract for $45,000, a heavy sum for the Phillies at the time but far short of what many of Kleins followers thought he was worth. To get Simmons, Carpenter even sent the entire Phillies squad to Curts hometown of Egypt, Pennsylvania, to face the left-handers local team. Harry Kalas had also joined the team in 1971, and would be the teams iconic play-by-play announcer until 2008. In 1966 he headed the New York entry in the North American Professional Soccer League. This article was written byRich Westcott, This article was published in the Team Ownership History Project, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw celebrates after closing out Game Six of the 1980 World Series, clinching the first championship in franchise history. He was raised in Brooklyn, where his industrious nature surfaced early. After the 1917 season, Baker made one of the worst trades in the history of the franchise. After Carpenter graduated from Yale, he took courses in business administration at the University of Delaware and served as the universitys assistant baseball coach. The highlight of Bobs regime was the clubs 1950 National League pennant. Pete, Jim and Sandy Buck, David Montgomery and Pat Gillick own the remaining 52 percent. One night in 1912 Fogel was drinking with some writer friends, and at one point said the National League pennant race was fixed. But when pressed on the issue several years later, Baker told the real reason for the trade. The NL champion Philadelphia Phillies may have to start the 2023 season without Bryce Harper, whose elbow will undergo surgical repair next week. On March 6, 1981, Ruly Carpenter, having repeatedly complained about skyrocketing player salaries, made the announcement that stunned the baseball world. It was sometimes said that Roy Campanella, a Philadelphia native, would have preferred the Phillies to the Dodgers. Toiling as an iron molder with heavy tools and near the hot furnaces, he worked 12-hour days. That's more money than 99.9 percent of human beings will ever make in their entire lives, . In 1904 they dropped to eighth. He tried unsuccessfully to change the teams nickname from Phillies to Live Wires. Playing at Jefferson Park before an estimated crowd of about 2,000, the Athletics lost that game, 6-5. At one point, Nugent had to put his stock as collateral to keep the team afloat. And when the American League began, Reach, who in 1899 had unsuccessfully offered to sell his shares in the Phillies to Rogers, recommended his partner for a franchise in Philadelphia. Nugent also managed to escape, at long last, from the motley problems of Baker Bowl. We own this team and we intend to win, Middleton said. As you will soon learn, that is exactly what it means to be a limited partner, limited. Phone: 602.496.1460 Lets meet the cast: Claire S. Betz By then, Charlie Manuel had taken over as Phillies manager, and eventually the team became filled with star players, such as first baseman Ryan Howard, second baseman Chase Utley, and shortstop Jimmy Rollins all three becoming the greatest players at their positions in Phillies history plus outfielder Pat Burrell, catcher Carlos Ruiz and pitchers Cole Hamels and Brett Myers. The relationship between Reach and Shibe couldnt have been better. But once a player showed more than average ability, he was gone. Ruly became his assistant. Before revealing these Phillies Phantoms, let's discuss how exactly they came to be the owners. Williams went on to lead the National League in home runs four times, three of them during his 13 seasons with the Phillies, thereby etching his name as one of the great hitters in Phillies history. A total of 6 pitchers got "A" grades or better for their sinkers, including recent Giants' signee Sean Manaea, who threw it over 60% of the time. Ruly hated it all. After he bought the team and became president, it didnt take long for Potters collapse to begin. He was panned and pitied, admired and ridiculed. The son of a United States attorney general who later served as US secretary of war, Taft was the younger brother of William Howard Taft, the nations 27th president. Born August 31, 1915, the year of the Phillies first pennant, Bob had been a football, basketball, and baseball star at Tower Hill School in Wilmington. Murphy was a former newspaper reporter who had become one of baseballs first publicity chiefs, first with the New York Giants and then with the Cubs. The Phillies owners sought an injunction to stop Lajoie from playing with any other teams. He promoted boxing matches and owned the rights to several fighters. Sally Buck, wife of the deceased James, had also become the owner of her husbands stock before she died in 2014, leaving the stock to their estate. Although the Athletics would continue to play as an independent team and, in 1882, another team called the Athletics was awarded a franchise in the new American Association, Philadelphia was left without a National League team for the next six years. In 1946 Carpenter made headlines when he hired a woman scout, Edith Houghton. Probably no chief executive in the history of the franchise was ever as successful at turning the spotlight away from his team and onto himself. Ruly, at age 32, assumed the presidency after the 1972 season. In a rash of spending unparalleled in Phillies history, the club began issuing big long-term contracts to some of its better players, including Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell, Randy Wolf, and Mike Lieberthal. Ill do everything possible to bring about a winning club.. Pennock died suddenly in 1948, leaving Carpenter to run the club. The Philadelphia Phillies are back in the National League Championship Series thanks to help from players who were a part of the 2010 MLB Draft. I think hell make us a fine manager.3 Baker was right. Cox established a reputation for himself by running onto the field during one game to protest a referees call. He authorized a number of key trades that bolstered the clubs on-field prowess, including acquiring players like Curt Schilling, Jim Eisenreich, Lenny Dykstra, John Kruk, Dave Hollins, Terry Mulholland, and Mitch Williams. Shortly after he took over the team, he named the Phillies ballpark after himself. His time out of the spotlight would soon end. Giles made perhaps one of his boldest moves when he signed catcher Lance Parrish to a Phillies contract in 1987. Bob grabbed a microphone and announced to the fans that they could have their ticket money refunded. He's done so with a high success rate of 85 percent for . After he spent $18 million to get a 15 percent share of the stock in 1994, his ownership in the Phillies had increased after he sold his business for a reported $2.9 billion in 2007 and invested an additional undisclosed amount over several years that wound up giving him a 48 percent interest in the team. But he induced many of them to join him in his investment in the sport of base ball. In addition, Dreyfuss, who had earlier loaned Reach and Rogers money to fight the new American League and had been paid off secretly with Phillies stock, took the position of running the team behind the scenes. Want to get rid of David Montgomery? Actually, that view was badly mistaken as the team had signed its first African-American, a player named Ted Washington of the Philadelphia Stars, in 1952. It isnt fun anymore, Ruly said in 1981, the year of a players strike. It was an era of terrible teams, playing much of the time in a miserable ballpark with little success and equally little support from the fans. Giles had said soon after assuming command of the team that his groups objective was not to make a lot of money but not to lose money, either. Buying a professional sports team is not just another investment where you can let your stock broker do all the work and call you every once in a while with an update. He was opposed to his players enjoying too much nightlife. Simultaneously, he took in a partner, Benjamin J. Shibe, an expert on leather and a manufacturer of horse whips. The Middleton family, led by John Middleton, and the . The Phillies president fought back. The Phillies' first GM was Herb Pennock, selected by owner Bob Carpenter, Jr. to oversee the team when he went into the army; before this time, GM duties were handled primarily by the team owner, and this would continue after Pennock's tenure when a GM was not present. Giles himself drifted into the background, away from the spotlight that for many years had shone so brightly on him. Ultimately, he and Reach became the principal owners of the new team, each holding 43 percent of the clubs stock with a few friends of theirs holding the remaining shares. Andy had been a major-league executive with the Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, and Chicago Cubs, whom he served as president and CEO from 1994 to 2006. Later, he founded his own lumber firm. This article will provide the background of these owners and describe their path to ownership. Ownership The Phillies is a limited partnership formed in 1981. Would Reach be interested in taking over a new team in Philadelphia? The establishment of Mr. Reach has grown to larger proportions, and the name is synonymous with baseball, it said. The team had been purchased by Carpenters father, Robert R.M. He had stuntman Karl Wallenda walk across the top of Veterans Stadium on a wire, and brought in such acts as Kiteman, Cannonman, Rocketman, Benny the Bomb, and the Playboy Bunnies to deliver the first ball at a game. In the late 1930s, Bob had convinced Connie Mack of the need for a minor-league team in Wilmington. 2023 Forbes Media LLC. Seven months after he assumed control of the team, Locke died. When Carpenter took over, however, the Phillies future did not seem bright. But he wasnt the only great star the Phillies could have but didnt sign. On September 10, 2015, the Phillies announced they would not extend GM Rubn Amaro, Jr.'s contract. Potter, a socialite and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was also a stockbroker whose clients had mostly not achieved the social status to which he was accustomed. By this time, though, the Phillies debts were still mounting. Hall of Famer Bill Terry, then the Giants manager, and Philadelphia Eagles owner Alexis Thompson tried to put together a group to purchase the club. The following season he brought in new players, and most importantly, turned the managerial reins over to Harry Wright, a baseball pioneer himself, and one of the games premier managers. RICH WESTCOTT is a baseball writer, historian, and the author of 26 books. Starting in the late 1890s, the club became the residence of a number of future Hall of Fame players, including Ed Delahanty, Nap Lajoie, and Elmer Flick, who launched their careers with the Phillies, plus Sam Thompson, Billy Hamilton, Tim Keefe, Roger Connor, and Dan Brouthers, all of whom came from other teams. But he made the deals that gave the Phillies such key members of the 1950 team as Jim Konstanty, Dick Sisler, and Eddie Waitkus. Soon afterward, he and Mae were married. Baker died in Montreal on December 4, 1930, a controversial figure in Philadelphia to the end. Value of team based on current stadium deal (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt. Follow every Phillies win and loss with William Y. Giles had lived baseball since the day he was born. Later, Shibe would become the original owner of the new American Leagues Philadelphia Athletics. When the postgame habits of some of the Phillies seemed to become a problem in 1954, Bob and Hamey hired private detectives to follow them. He won one pennant, and finished last eight times. Quickly, the commissioner launched an investigation. Montgomery had begun his career with the Phillies in 1971 when he came to the team in search of a job and was given a spot in the sales department as a seller of season and group tickets at a salary of $600 a month. He changed managers after the team finished a disappointing sixth, replacing Dooin with Moran. The first star shortstop to sign, Trea Turner has joined the NL Champion Philadelphia Phillies. But the senior Carpenter had made it known that if the Phillies ever came up again for sale, he would be interested in buying the team. Meeting with politicians, business leaders, and just about anybody else who might have an interest in the mammoth project, Giles final saw his efforts pay off when plans for a new baseball-only ballpark were unveiled in 2001. Gerry did more than talk. In an era when most baseball teams were the part-time toys of owners whose main interests and occupations were elsewhere, Robert R.M. The first National League game in Philadelphia was played in 1876 with the Boston Red Stockings facing the Philadelphia Athletics, one of several of the citys early teams with that name. Nugent thought this plan, used in the minor leagues, would generate a considerable amount of fan interest. Later, Carpenter said he enjoyed player development more than anything else in baseball. The Phillies' ownership group has remained more of a mystery in this town than Bigfoot or the Bermuda Triangle. But, if John Middleton could somehow grab a majority stake, he could have called the shots and told Montgomery to hit the road if he wanted. But intrusions were part of Coxs style. In late July, climaxing a long and widening rift between the president and the manager, Cox leaked to the press that he was going to fire Harris. In fact, they appear to be very principled and classy people. And he died during the 1909 season. And he achieved his lifelong dream on October 29, 1981, when a partnership he headed purchased the Phillies, ending nearly four decades of ownership by the Carpenter family. One such pitcher the Phillies developed but let go in an ill-advised trade was Ferguson Jenkins, who became one of the outstanding hurlers in the major leagues and a Hall of Famer. Despite a hearing on December 3 at which Cox defended himself, Landiss verdict stood. Nevertheless, the Phillies fell into fourth place in 1984, attendance dropped, and the team was generally acknowledged to have slipped well into red ink. Born in 1840 in London, England, where his father was a prominent cricket player, Reach was brought to the United States at the age of one. National League President Ford Frick and the four owners making up the leagues board of directors were closing in for the kill. (Library of Congress, Bain Collection). Fans started staying away from the ballpark in droves and attendance eventually dropped to as low as 1.5 million for the year in 1997, a sharp drop from the then-all-time high of 3,137,674 million in 1993. It hadnt helped the teams image when manager Ben Chapman and some of his staff screamed racist comments at Jackie Robinson during his major-league debut year in 1947. Amaro had led the team since 2008.[25]. The partnership was formed to launch a business that would manufacture sporting goods. Charlie was then 71. Locke worked hard to build a team that had finished third once, fourth five times, and fifth twice in the previous eight years. Long a baseball fanatic who devoured everything he could read on the subject, Nugent played a valuable role as Bakers right-hand man. A masterful promoter, Giles launched numerous highly popular moves. Ruly agreed totally with that philosophy. 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