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Sporting goods manufacturer Al Reach and attorney John Rogers, who jointly owned a professional baseball team in Philadelphia, were awarded a spot in the National League (NL) to replace the Worcester Brown Stockings—aka Ruby Legs—that folded in 1882. Initially nicknamed “Quakers” in 1983, the new NL club compiled a 0.173 winning percentage (17–81 win-loss record), the worst in franchise history.
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Books include Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline. See http://www.philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com.
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Two sources are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015.
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Tyler Kepner, “Phillies’ President Took Path From Upper Deck to the Owner’s Box,” http://www.nytimes.com cited 9 August 2015.
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See “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015, and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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For survey results, there is Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015, and “MLB Team Loyalty Winners and Losers,” http://www.brandkeys.com cited 14 February 2015.
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Two business articles about the Phillies franchise are Kurt Badenhausen, “Baseball’s Highest-Paid Players 2014,” Forbes (14 April 2014): 1, and John George, “Phillies CEO Breaks Down TV Deal,” SportsBusiness Journal (17 February 2014): 10.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). Philadelphia Phillies. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_4
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