Being from Maryland the Orioles were my favorite team, the Phillies were my second favorite and I attended games at both Memorial and Veterans Stadium. 1983 was the perfect year in baseball for me.

The 1983 Phillies were an extension of the Big Red Machine with Tony Perez, Joe Morgan, and Pete Rose, key pieces of the 1970s Cincinnati Reds Dynasty.

Giving away Lonnie Smith and Ryne Sandburg was huge. We would have kept winning.

@DM-iw2qt

Жыл бұрын

Yes very. Very true. Files was a asshole

@steveswangler6373

Жыл бұрын

And Julio Franco, Keith Moreland, Larry Bowa would have been better to have than Ivan dejesus. Let Bob Boone go who had about another productive decade left. The Pope had built the Phillies in the seventies and then for some reason let it all fall to pieces in the early 80’s . It’s very sad to think that the Phillies could have been a very competitive team throughout the last decade of the greatest third baseman in history’s career.

@scottaw666

9 ай бұрын

Manny Trillo had broken an MLB record for chances at 2nd base - Phils trade him. Mike Krukow stays one year - traded to Giants and wins 20 games. 1st baseman: The Phils had Al Oliver - a perennial .300 hitter, traded mid-season. Willie Montanez and Bill Robinson could have been a part of this old team also. Lastly, I recall a superb hitter named Ron Jones who sadly had a career ending injury.

@Rockhound6165

Ай бұрын

Lonnie Smith won wherever he went. Won World Series titles with the Phils, Cardinals, and Royals and nearly won one with the Braves.

The 83 team was the most unappreciated and least talked about team in the history of all Philadelphia sports...

Thank goodness for Kiko Garcia and other unlikely heroes - Hudson, Gross, Lefebvre - keeping the team afloat while some of the Phillie veterans struggled

Nice vid. Would love to see one on the 1976 Philies. 1st NL East Champs

Great video ... Great! 👍👍

Amazing year and team!

Thank you!!!!! You are the man!!!!! Very interesting year 1983. The Phils turned over a huge portion of their roster and managed to win the Pennant, changing managers along the way, that has to be unique in MLB history. Despite their age, the lineup had some decent talent. They may have been the "Wheeze Kids" but the young guys on the pitching staff contributed as well. It's true in any sport if a team gets hot at the end of the year and makes the playoffs, they can ride that wave to big things. I Was hoping for something like that with this years 2021 Phils, but alas it wasn't meant to be. 1983 ends up being Cal Ripken Jr's only World Series victory. Looks like the Oriole's pitching staff was the big factor in their victory. Thank you so much for telling this story! As I write this, a few days after the 2021 Phils were eliminated, I hope you enjoyed the season despite the heartaches it provided. Many question marks going into the offseason with the multiple aging Veterans in the field, but a few bright spots in the starting rotation. I'm really looking forward to watching Ranger Suarez. As we say all too often here in Philly, maybe next year!

@PhiladelphiaBaseballHistory

2 жыл бұрын

You are so very kind. Thank you for tuning in. I love making videos for people who appreciate what I’m doing. Thank you.

@therealjd4life

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody ever talks about that team...John Denny won the Cy Young and that team has tons of players that have plaques in Cooperstown

@3b1d5c

7 ай бұрын

I did a season replay of this team with APBA baseball. These guys were my hero from my youth but man, very inconsistent . Lost in the playoffs to the Dodgers

@Rockhound6165

Ай бұрын

Changing managers isn't unique. Changing managers while in first place IS unique.

What's funny is that both the Phils and Orioles went downhill after the 1983 WS. The O's got back sooner, though (in 1989, they missed out on the AL East on the next to last day). It took the Phils ten years to make the playoffs after this.

@Rockhound6165

Ай бұрын

And another 15 years after that.

Wild year... Those W.S. games against the Orioles...UGH!

Bill Giles was the GM of the Phils which perhaps his created ego may had cost them the world series which for the next 25 years they would finally win one which to date it's their 2nd world series title.

@steveswangler6373

Жыл бұрын

Paul Owens was the GM, not Bill Giles. And how would a GM cost a team a World Series they were playing in? A mid series trade?

11:15 Has any other team after fired a manager mid-season while in first place? I've never heard of such a thing.

I was worried about playing the Dodgers in the NLCS. Weren't they 11-1 against us with some dominant pitching?

Years ago I meet Von Hayes he was very nice gentleman

“Most of the core had moved on…” They didn’t move on so much as were pushed out. Several players were jettisoned for being “too old” yet the Phillies brought in Morgan and Perez. And never forget how Dallas green went to Chicago and raped our farm system. Look at the cubs 1984 pennant winners and count the players from our system. If not for green destroying our farm system, and stupid trades like the 541, the Phillies would have kept fighting for the division for at least the first part of the decade. And remember, you actually had to earn a playoff berth back then, not like last year’s(2022) team

@Rockhound6165

Ай бұрын

Outside of Julio Franco who did we trade in the 5-for-1? Jay Baller? George Vukovich? Jerry Willard? Didn't really give up much and only in hindsight did the trade look stupid. Would have been nice to have kept Franco considering the guy was a freaking cyborg playing until he was almost 50. And last year(2022) team did go to the World Series. You're complaining about that?

Phillies got over that Dodger hump, after the Dodgers eliminated them in the 77 and 78 NLCS.

Pat Corrales was also from the 70s reds

Good topical coverage of the World Series and season, but you could go deeper. GRADE: B

@SJK-uc6lf

2 ай бұрын

B- for the background music being too loud. I almost turned it off at the beginning. I did turn it off mid way through.

Good video. However the background music is way too loud. It makes you hard to hear. You should lower down the music volume.

Your anti-Rose bias shows once again. Rose's "inconsistency" in the 1983 WS was 0-4 in game 2, and 0-1 pinch-hitting in game 3. Rose was 4-for-7 the rest of the way, hitting .313 in the WS, and he hit .375 in the NLCS, far outperforming his best friend & teammate Joe Morgan.

Phillies would have to wait til 25 yrs later to win their 2nd title.

Mike Schmidt's horrible slump cost Philly the most in the World Series.

The orioles in 1983 were far superiors than the Phillies. The better team won. Back in the two league four divisions era, 90 wins was good enough to win the division maybe a third of the time.

OK, is that ridiculously unnecessary "music" going to play in the background the whole time??