After Potter pulled out, the remaining Phillies stockholders sold the team to Charles Phelps Taft, a native of Cincinnati and a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University Law School, and Charles Murphy, who was part-owner of the Chicago Cubs, thanks to money Taft had loaned him to purchase controlling interest in the team. In June 1972 Owens replaced John Quinn as general manager. But once named, Ruch proved to be a capable and effective administrator who worked extremely hard to make the club respectable. Carpenter was like that. When one girl fell and she and her friends started screaming help and murder, fans ran to the top of an overhanging balcony protruding about 30 feet above the stands to see what the commotion was about. In 1966 he headed the New York entry in the North American Professional Soccer League. In 1904 they dropped to eighth. He tried unsuccessfully to change the teams nickname from Phillies to Live Wires. Carpenter encouraged him to try to put together a group to buy it. Boston manager Joe McCarthy, however, had left Ted Williams and Vern Stephens home. Lets put it this way: The original group bought the team in 1981 for $30 million. Perhaps Carpenters chief contribution to the Phillies, though, was the dignity he gave to a flimsy franchise. Westcott, Rich. He developed Phanavision, a $4 million electronic scoreboard that featured close-up pictures of batters, fans, and replays, plus various kinds of statistical information. He was a tough-minded businessman who described himself as an awful skinflint and who worked hard to achieve success with the Phillies. When Gerry sent Klein to the Chicago Cubs in 1933, he received three players and $65,000. He also vainly attempted to form a 10-nation soccer league. More than 70 years later, the team was still there. But the team value is an entirely different story. His father died in the Civil War, and Ruch was raised in poverty. Reach fired the teams first manager, Bob Ferguson, after the Phillies lost 13 of their first 17 games, replacing him with outfielder Bill Blondie Purcell. Two years later he became one of the teams stockholders and the title co-general partner was added to his rsum. Rumor has it, Middleton was a big reason why the Phillies signed Jim Thome in 2002. Having gained a reputation as owning one of baseballs brightest minds, Montgomery moved to the forefront in 1992 when he was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of the team. Bill Conlin describes it in better detail in his article on the limited partnership, but here is the Cliffs Notes version. But in 1934, Sunday baseball was legalized in Pennsylvania. But no matter how good an operator you are, he once said, you have to have some luck.. And the Reach ball became the official ball of the new league. During his reign, Cox feuded with National League President Ford Frick, with some of the other owners in the league, and even with officials of his farm team at Trenton, who protested to Commissioner Landis that he was raiding the club of its players. Bob could get mad himself. MLB clubs are now worth a record $2.07 billion on average, up 9% from last year, according to Forbes estimates. The Reach Company and the A.G. Spalding Company, founded by another old baseball-playing pioneer, were the dominant firms in the sporting-goods field in the country. While Giles had little to do with the teams daily operations, he continued to be extremely active in local charities and was frequently honored for his work both in baseball and in the city. Westcott is a former president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association and has been inducted into four halls of fame. The group also hired Pete Mackanin as manager in 2015, but fired him after the 2017 season, despite his having been signed through 2018. Others were signed in the years shortly thereafter, although the first black player to perform in an actual Phillies game did not occur until John Kennedy took the field in 1957. One day in 1913, Ruch received an urgent call from Baker. He had been friendly with the Carpenters for many years, even to the point of taking Bob as a youngster on a road trip with him when he played for the New York Yankees. It was a clear conflict of interest, despite the fact that such things were fairly common during that era, as the Taft organization, among others, would demonstrate. The team had been purchased by Carpenters father, Robert R.M. In 1943 the Phillies had finished seventh, but having been eighth in the five previous seasons, Pennock and Carpenter formulated a plan to pull the club out of the National League dungeon. Right. The gesture merely served to infuriate the Red Sox, especially McCarthy. Carpenter died at his home outside of Wilmington on July 8, 1990. Meanwhile, starting with a second-place finish in 2001, the team finished third in the division twice, then second three straight times. With Pennock teaching the young owner how to run a big-league baseball team, the two put their plan into action. Westcott, Rich. Hard to say if Middleton even attempted to buy the team, but the program during a ceremony in 2004 at Amherst said, Montgomery runs the show. In 1980, led by Rose and the provocative manager Dallas Green, the Phillies won the East Division, and the League Championship Series in a thrilling match with the Houston Astros. One of the best kept secrets in Philadelphia is the phantom group of people we loosely call the Phillies owners. They then lost to the New York Yankees in six games in 2009. When we lose, I think its my fault. But soon after he became president, Mills launched a movement to rid the league of those two squads, replacing them with teams from New York City and Philadelphia. He also presided over the signing of future Hall of Famers Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn, and Mike Schmidt, as well as such stars as Dick Allen, Chris Short, Greg Luzinski and Larry Bowa. A former newspaper and magazine writer and editor, he is considered the foremost authority on Philadelphia sports. Club employees looked like red-eyed mourners.. Sara L. "Sally" Buck, 83, who joined the Phillies' limited partnership that formed in 1981, died on Saturday morning. Ill do everything possible to bring about a winning club.. And public-address announcer Dan Baker would start in 1972 and after 46 years was still at work in 2018, the second-longest PA stint in baseball history. Along the way, he put Murphy in charge of the team after purchasing his stock in the Cubs. Rumor has it, Middleton was a big reason why the Phillies signed Jim Thome in 2002. It was announced in November of 2007 that Middleton had sold his family cigar company to the Altria Group, owners of Phillip Morris, for $2.9 billion. He assumed leadership only to protect his investment. He was dismissed after that season, and named the clubs business manager. Betz Laboratories was later sold to General Electric. I think hell make us a fine manager.3 Baker was right. When Waitkus was shot in 1950 by a deranged woman, Bob ordered the best available medical care. Already signed through the 2024 season, Dombrowski received a three-year extension, taking him through the 2027 season. The Roaring Twenties were not accompanied by roaring crowds at Baker Bowl. John Middleton Announces New Changes in Phillies Ownership. During his career, Taft served as a successful attorney, a member of the Ohio State Legislature, and a member of the US Congress. 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. The first year under Moran, the Phillies won their first pennant. At the time he had no plans to run the club, but when the board of directors passed him the reins, Ruch plunged enthusiastically into the job. Although he was only 28 years old, at the time the youngest club president in National League history, with World War II at its height, Carpenter faced being drafted. The Fightin Phils Oddities, Insights, and Untold Stories (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2008). Gerry, though, was the eternal optimist. The price tag was an estimated $400,000. It was sometimes said that Roy Campanella, a Philadelphia native, would have preferred the Phillies to the Dodgers. Frick moved swiftly, ousting Nugent and appointing a group from his office to run the Phillies while a new owner was sought. Shibe became the first owner of the American Leagues Philadelphia Athletics. Baker became the second biggest investor in the syndicate. 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 Phillies' ownership group hasn't. The Phillies never got above seventh place during Gerrys presidency, finishing eighth six times and seventh four. HA! View Jeff's full profile . by Marc Narducci, Inquirer. He usually demanded such talent as throw-ins in trades. 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. Ruly agreed totally with that philosophy. In 1961 the Phillies lost a major-league-record 23 straight games. 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. I always wanted to make money, he admitted, because theres no satisfaction in doing something if you dont make a success of it., When Carpenter took over the Phillies, the franchise was in ashes, the result of the previous regimes. The Boston Red Sox were visiting Clearwater for an exhibition game. 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. Contents 1 Early life, education and family 2 Career 2.1 Philadelphia Phillies He just reaffirmed that fact. Bill Giles hired David Montgomery in 1971 to work in the Phillies' ticket sales office and he later became Sales Director. We (Baker and his partners) thought that when I could get the club up to the first division, we could get a good price for it, he said. On October 10, 1969, Giles joined the Carpenters and the Phillies as vice president of business operations, as the Phillies prepared to move from Connie Mack Stadium to Veterans Stadium. Gerry does all the talking for this family, she said. . With the 1,200 shares that his wife and son now owned plus some stock he had previously bought himself, Nugent now controlled 51 percent of the Phillies stock. They also have been heavily involved in local charity, including gifts to the zoo, orchestra, and education. During that period, the Phillies finished in fourth place five times, in fifth twice, and second and third each once. An old ballfield built in 1860 on the block surrounded by 24th and 25th Streets and Ridge and Columbia Avenues called Recreation Park was totally refurbished by Reach. Nugent tried unsuccessfully to set up a farm system, too, naming Swarthmore College graduate Johnny Ogden, a former pitcher and minor-league executive, as the teams first farm director. Bowa, Bob Boone, and Dick Ruthven were among others who had grown up through the Phillies farm system. 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. Meanwhile, Montgomery, a lifetime activist in community and charity organizations, had taken a leave of absence due to illness and left his post as the Phillies leader in 2014. He had the team stage emotional retirement nights for future Hall of Famers Steve Carlton, who had won four Cy Young Awards with the Phillies, and Mike Schmidt, a three-time Most Valuable Player, as part of the numerous special events that were geared to building fan interest and making a Phillies game an entertaining event for fans. Putnams Sons, 1953). Theyre not big enough to support National League ball, he said. Reportedly, he owed the league $160,000 and was two years behind in rent at Shibe Park. Immediately, the Phillies improved tremendously. Ed Pollock in the Philadelphia Public Ledger praised Ruch as a sportsman and a business man of proven acumen. The Gang of Six, as it came to be called, was often criticized in the press and by fans for some of the moves it made. She also oversees logistics for various game day and non-game day events that involve the Phillies Ownership Group. By the time he took over the Phillies with the new title of managing partner in 2016, the club was said to be worth more than $1 billion. In 1944, Carpenter held a public contest to pick a new name. The Phillies formed a limited partnership in 1981 to purchase the team for $30 million, and that group has operated with relative secrecy ever since. A man who always treated his players and other employees fairly, Giles also brought in general manager Lee Thomas in a move of considerable foresight because of Thomass success on the trading market. Attendance (466,975) in 1943 not only was more than double that of 1942, but also was the highest for a Phillies team since 1916. Eventually, Ruch moved to Ravenna, Ohio, where he got a job in a hardware and farm implement store, earning $25 a month, and enrolled in a six-week business course in a school in Poughkeepsie, New York. 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. Two years later, at the age of 40, Nugent was elected president of the club when Charlie Ruch retired. In 1945 he became part-owner with Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Pro Football Conference. Too bad. Ruch was born on a farm in 1862. David Montgomery said recently that the Phillies owners are in the red and have been since they took over the team. The teams debts almost always exceeded its income. I hate to lose. Baker fired eight different managers during his tenure, including Pat Moran, who had led the team to the 1915 pennant. Weve got to get those big cities back into our league, he said. The players came from an assortment of directions, some locally and some from minor professional teams elsewhere. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the managing partner and principal owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, [1] holding a 48 percent ownership stake in the team. But greater expectations amid a rising payroll sidetracked by recent failures have prompted scrutiny, which was intensified by team president David Montgomery's medical leave in August. By 1967, he was a vice president of the Astros. The Americans had signed Phillies star Nap Lajoie, who had won the ALs first batting crown with what would be the highest average (.426) in AL history. He was replaced by Gerald P. Nugent. The two dated, and eventually Mallon introduced Nugent to her boss. Bob Carpenter Jr. was a rarity. Montgomery was not lying, but he was surely bending the truth as well as any politician out there. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Penn Medicine. Simple as that. After serving for three years in the US Air Force, he joined the Reds front office on a full-time basis. In 1884 the club moved up to sixth place, and the following year it jumped up to third with the clubs first season over .500 (56-54-1). He insisted that he was running the whole show while claiming that he was the sole owner. The organization dismissed claims made by social media users that its new . One of the biggest critics of the Alexander trade was manager Moran, who let it be known that he and the boss did not see eye to eye on it. The reason for this decision to sell, Ruly said, is that it has become very apparent to me that some deeply ingrained philosophical differences exist between the Carpenter family and some of the other owners as to how the baseball business should be conducted. He introduced the knothole gang and Ladies Day to Philadelphia. The 2019 Phillies were 59-56 at this juncture; the U. Phillies ownership believes Dombrowski is the man who can get them those last two wins. Succeeding Terry Franconas unsuccessful reign, Larry Bowa was hired as the manager, and in 2001 he led the team to only its second .500 season since 1993. Former big leaguer has been in front office for several years with Phillies", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_owners_and_executives&oldid=1128771592, This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 22:35. Repeatedly Carpenter turned down trade offers for Roberts. Shiffert, John. Public relations director Larry Shenk had been hired by the team in 1963 and would hold that position until he retired in 2007. Charlie engineered the end of a long contract dispute with slugger Klein, who staged a holdout that lasted through all of spring training in 1931. Building from within was the anchor of Montgomerys philosophy. (Neither Quakers, Live Wires, Blue Jays, Whiz Kids, nor any other name was ever officially registered as the teams nickname.). That proved to be a brilliant move. David Montgomery shut down those dreams instantly. His work with newspapers ultimately became the focus of his career. Pennock died suddenly in 1948, leaving Carpenter to run the club. Base Ball in Philadelphia (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2006). After he was approached by Mills about starting a team in Philadelphia, Reach enlisted the aid of Colonel John I. Rogers, a prominent lawyer, a former city comptroller, a colonel in the Philadelphia National Guard, and a member of the Pennsylvania governors staff. There were no players involved in the transaction. A native New Yorker, he was born in 1909 and grew up on swanky Riverside Drive, graduating from high school at the age of 15 and attending New York University and Yale. 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. Eddie Sawyer, the manager who had been so popular a few years earlier, fell out of favor in 1952 and was fired. A year later he was named business manager, and in 1928 he joined the clubs board of directors. Top prospect Andrew Painter tops the list . 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. 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. Taft had contributed $15 million, good for a 47 percent ownership. The store became a local hangout for sporting types. Accordingly, a few months later, the team was expelled from the league. Wiler served for only three months, leaving the position when a syndicate headed by William H. Locke purchased the team from Taft, who had become the teams principal owner. In 1986, Taft Broadcasting sold its 47 percent share to Bill Giles and crew for $24.1 million. Although he was a wealthy man, he chose instead to let the team pay for itself. Putnams Sons, 1953), 12. He acted as the clubs general manager for six years, until signing Roy Hamey in 1954. As a player, he was one of the first to receive a salary. He sold newspapers on Broadway, then at the age of 15 he took a job in an iron foundry. It has been argued that the Phillies won the 1915 pennant despite Baker, not because of him. 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. Giles himself drifted into the background, away from the spotlight that for many years had shone so brightly on him. Nugent began work for the Phillies in 1925. Locke was attempting to pick up an option he had to buy the Phillies, but several of his financial supporters had backed out at the last minute, and the deal was on the verge of collapsing. 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. Very, very gentlemanly. None of the partners held as much as a 50 percent share of the limited partnership. He lived his final years in Atlantic City. Shettsline returned to his position as the teams business manager. Find out all the different ways to contact the Phillies. Tri-Play and Double Play are equal partners while Pat Gillick and the Montgomery family own the remaining interests. 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. In pursuit of that notion, he hired a veteran track coach, Harold Anson Bruce, as the teams trainer and physical-fitness director. 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. His constant trades were frustrating to the fans, who watched their heros parade in and out of Philadelphia with sickening regularity. Carpenters side won both battles. Giles became the largest single stockholder in the club. His passing changed the course of the franchises history. It was just the reverse situation with Roberts. Ruly had gone to New Haven with the idea of pursuing a career in law, but he changed his mind while at school. It was a deal that would forever stand as one of the best the Phillies ever made. He operated largely behind the scenes and was seldom quoted in the press or seen on television. But the bill collectors always beckoned. Late in 1882, Mills contacted his old friend Alfred J. Middleton has seemed to step up and take more of a visual role, as opposed to the past, when the Phillies owners have been in the shadows since Dave Montgomery and his group bought the Phillies . After returning home, Nugent worked as a purchasing agent for a fastenings firm. He tried to buy up all outstanding stock so that his interests would be solely in command. He left an estate valued at $1,017,868. There was speculation that the club would be sold. The Phillies Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 3rd edition, 2004). In those days, some teams paid a few of their players under the table, but Reach is usually credited with being the first man to accept pay openly. In what amounts to a formality, Major League Baseball owners on Thursday approved Phillies partner John Middleton as the team's control person at their quarterly meetings in Chicago. Then, with an abrupt shift in policy that stunned both local fans and all of baseball, the Phillies entered the free-agent market in 2003 with their checkbooks wide open. Three years later, he got Klein back, along with $50,000. He was raised in Brooklyn, where his industrious nature surfaced early. At Yale, Ruly was a two-way end on the football team and captained the baseball team, on which he pitched and batted .350. One of his moves was to purchase the contract of Klein for $7,500 from a minor-league team. In his 10 seasons at the helm of the Phillies, Nugent ruled over the sorriest period in the clubs history. The GM controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the . In one deal, Baker sent outfielder George Whitted to the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Casey Stengel. A veteran major-league pilot, Harris made some immediate improvements in the Phillies, and in the early part of the season the club even flirted with the first division. They then won the first World Series in club history, beating the Kansas City Royals in six games with Carlton winning two games and McGraw winning one and saving two. Especially when you ask the city and state for $260 million to help build your new ballpark, you have given up the right to be fiercely private as Middleton was described by Amherst. 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. Over this period, Carpenter, spending nearly every minute of his waking hours working on Phillies business, had 12 managers. Having handed over the daily operation of the club to David Montgomery, who had acquired a small piece of stock in 1994, Giles, at age 63, stepped down as president and chief executive officer of the team in 1997. The Phillies are currently overseen by team president, Andy MacPhail.[6]. No one, of course, has had more to do with turning the Phillies into one of the major leagues most lucrative franchises than Giles. 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. Carpenters team had been on a frustrating roller-coaster. Carpenter, a wealthy resident of Wilmington, Delaware, where he had married the sister of Pierre S. du Pont, and later became the president and part-owner of the mammoth E.I. The most modern and advanced ballpark of the era, it was the first one that was built mainly with bricks instead of wood and was the first ballpark to include pavilions for seating. He promoted boxing matches and owned the rights to several fighters. Baker showed a total lack of understanding for the game after the 1913 season when the Federal League was offering many baseball stars much larger contracts. 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