Baker became the second biggest investor in the syndicate. He was the team vice president until 1982, team president from 1982 to 1987, and General Manager from 1984 to 1987. Bob Carpenter Jr. was a rarity. 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. Ed Pollock in the Philadelphia Public Ledger praised Ruch as a sportsman and a business man of proven acumen. The company said Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to buy the remaining 25% ownership stake in Ocean Wind 1 from New Jersey-based Public Service Enterprise Group. He was panned and pitied, admired and ridiculed. He left an estate valued at $1,017,868. By the mid-1890s, Reach was spending more time with his sporting-goods business and less time with the Phillies. 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. Montgomery would go on to preside and be a part-owner of the Phillies during the greatest era in team history. But after the 1914 season, Baker did something right. One month later, he fired Frank Lucchesi and named himself field manager, explaining that he had to see firsthand what his team was all about. Were not going to beat anybodys brains out by trying to get a good club right off the bat. 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. 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. It's a comparison that Middleton never minded. Reach also managed the team for 11 games in 1890 when three substitute pilots had to fill in for Wright after he developed a case of temporary blindness. It was falling apart and had been given the nicknames The Hump and House of Horrors.. Phoenix, AZ 85004 His name was Horace Fogel and he was a well-known local sportswriter. Bob Levy and Fitz Dixon have also since cashed out. His work with newspapers ultimately became the focus of his career. And there were other attempts by such potential buyers as Bill Veeck, Branch Rickey, Dan Topping, John B. Kelly Sr., Moe Annenberg, and the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.7, In 1940 a group of the Phillies minority stockholders tried to oust Nugent and take control of the club. In combination with his son, Ruly, the Carpenter family owned the Phillies for nearly 50 years (until 1981) until it was sold to Bill Giles, son of former league president Warren Giles. 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. Former collegiate track athlete William D. Cox became owner of the Phillies at age 33 and immediately demanded changes in player conditioning, stating, I want the team to run morning and afternoon. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library). Playing at Jefferson Park before an estimated crowd of about 2,000, the Athletics lost that game, 6-5. Right. Locke made his bid, which was accepted, and on January 15, 1913, his dream became reality. He then rose to ticket taker and then office manager. He acquired a number of respectable players, most notably Schoolboy Rowe, Babe Dahlgren, and Jimmy Wasdell. 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. He was 74. There was nothing bashful about Carpenter when it came to opening his checkbook. Reachs son George married Shibes daughter. Both New York and Philadelphia have tremendous futures, and some day their populations will be in the millions. David Montgomery shut down those dreams instantly. It is fairly well known that John S. Middleton has been an outlier on some issues - breaking loose the money to sign Jim Thome was thought to be one of them., David Montgomery 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. Mae, who had served under Ruch as treasurer and assistant secretary of the club, was added to the board of directors and named a vice president, the first woman to hold a position that high in the National League. The organization dismissed claims made by social media users that its new . Seven months after he assumed control of the team, Locke died. After two seasons, Ruch, his health again failing, tendered his resignation as president on the advice of his physician. 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. Were on the upgrade and will have to be figured as a pennant factor this year, he said in 1941. See, her son, Peter Betz, was murdered by her 16-year-old grandson, Justin Betz, in 1988. I think hell make us a fine manager.3 Baker was right. But he wasnt the only great star the Phillies could have but didnt sign. In 1869 Wright was the player-manager with the first all-professional team, the Cincinnati Redlegs. 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. 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. Although the club never won a pennant, Reach developed it into one of the cornerstones of the National League. The GM controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the . He usually demanded such talent as throw-ins in trades. He developed Phanavision, a $4 million electronic scoreboard that featured close-up pictures of batters, fans, and replays, plus various kinds of statistical information. Ruly, at age 32, assumed the presidency after the 1972 season. Base Ball in Philadelphia (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2006). Quickly, the commissioner launched an investigation. Nugent was an astute businessman with an extremely thorough knowledge of baseball. 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. The Phillies, however, would drop down again after the 2012 season, and through 2017 would not come anywhere close to being a winning team. The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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. Some of his work went into the construction of New Yorks finest hotels of the day along Fifth Avenue. Overall, the Phillies of 1943 were vastly improved from the previous five years of eighth-place finishers. 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. And he did, moving from his home in Brooklyn to Philadelphia, pumping his energy into the operation. Despite a hearing on December 3 at which Cox defended himself, Landiss verdict stood. Ogden had one scout, Patsy ORourke. One of his moves was to purchase the contract of Klein for $7,500 from a minor-league team. On September 10, 2015, the Phillies announced they would not extend GM Rubn Amaro, Jr.'s contract. In 1887, with the master plan devised by Reach, the team also moved into a new showplace stadium originally called Philadelphia Base Ball Park. After the 1917 season, Baker made one of the worst trades in the history of the franchise. He got his first job in baseball as a summer employee of the Cincinnati Reds while he was attending Denison University. 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. His place was filled by Abraham G. Mills, a former Army officer, a highly successful New York attorney, and a former player and strong supporter of the game of baseball. On March 6, 1981, Ruly Carpenter, having repeatedly complained about skyrocketing player salaries, made the announcement that stunned the baseball world. Two years later, Baker got what Locke had wanted so badly: The Phillies won the National League pennant. He promoted boxing matches and owned the rights to several fighters. After a hunting accident in which Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton extinguished a budding career by shooting himself in the foot (ultimately resulting in the amputation of his leg), Nugent advocated placing a clause in contracts that would ban players from hunting. But on the other hand, I dont want to go broke.. Carpenter could throw his weight around when necessary. During a 10-year period following the sale of the team to the Potter group, the Phillies would have four owners. Wright was given a small number of shares in the team from Reachs friends holdings. He arrived on the scene with a considerable amount of fanfare in early 1943. [2], The longest-tenured general manager is Paul Owens, with 11 years of service to the team in that role, from 1972 to 1983. The gesture merely served to infuriate the Red Sox, especially McCarthy. The Phillies had a working agreement with one minor-league team (Trenton) and one scout. He bought, he sold, he traded, he cajoled. Thus Reach and Rogers had to start from scratch, recruiting players and even finding a ballpark. Although he was a wealthy man, he chose instead to let the team pay for itself. Giles played a major role in running the team. Durham, who had served as a Philadelphia police magistrate, a state senator, and the state insurance commissioner, had high hopes for the team. In addition, outfielders Shane Victorino and Jason Werth, and pitchers Brad Lidge and Jamie Moyer were among players added to the team in trades or as free agents. After the season, Potter realized that baseball wasnt his game. Built at a cost of $345 million, with the city, state, and Citizens Bank footing almost all of the bill, the glittering 43,651-seat ballpark would become an enormously popular spot for local sports 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. But there were other problems. Could Ruch help out? He insisted that he was running the whole show while claiming that he was the sole owner. Before revealing these Phillies Phantoms, lets discuss how exactly they came to be the owners. The observation prompted him to open a sporting-goods store in 1874, one year before his playing days ended. In his nine years as president of the Phillies, Robert R.M. Ruly became his assistant. We already missed the boat once by forcing Cliff Lee out. After his death, neither McNichol nor Wolf decided they had any real interest in running the team. The team would have four managers, once lost 103 games, and drew just 140,771 paying customers one season. He did make a superb trade in 1917, however, when he acquired Cy Williams from the Chicago Cubs. The price tag was an estimated $400,000. Two years later, he became the manager of the Boston Red Stockings, with whom he won six pennants in 11 seasons and was the skipper in the first National League game in Philadelphia. But intrusions were part of Coxs style. Ruly agreed totally with that philosophy. When the Phillies won the case, American League President Ban Johnson moved Lajoie to the Cleveland Blues, a move the Phillies did not contest and where he spent most of the rest of his Hall of Fame career. Within four years, the Phillies had doled out bonuses amounting to $1,250,000. 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. Philadelphia Phillies Past and Present (MVP Books, 2010). Fans had a brief moment of hope that maybe, just maybe, we could have an ownership committed to winning. During the later years of his ownership, he was constantly trading whatever talent he had to get cash to meet the payroll. After serving as chairman for some 18 years, Giles was named chairman emeritus of the Phillies in 2015. When the current group bought the team, Giles appointed Montgomery as his top assistant in 1982. But we are going to start working for one systematically.. In 1945 he became part-owner with Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Pro Football Conference. The Phillies first owner is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. Here's why: When it comes to their baseball team, the owners are as. When Cox took control of the Phillies, he promised a fighting club. In the end that dilemma forced the beleaguered Nugent to relinquish control of his team. Their function was to make the club respectable until the youngsters arrived from the farms. He has been attributed as declaring, Ill pay for him myself!. John Betz had died in 1988, leaving his wife, Claire, in charge of their stock. For decades the Phillies had been hampered by the absence of Sunday baseball. In fact, they appear to be very principled and classy people. Thats when she took over his share. Klentak was only 35 years old at the time, the youngest GM in Phillies history. 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. During his 28 years as president, Carpenters teams finished over .500 12 times, placing in the first division nine times. At one point, Nugent had to put his stock as collateral to keep the team afloat. For five years, he and other members of the front office ran the baseball operation. Albert Wiler was installed as the interim president of a franchise that was in a state of limbo. That started an 11-year streak in which the team would finish in the first division each season, winning as many as 87 games in 1892. At the age of 21 he was earning $15 a month on a farm, plus 50 cents for each cord of wood he cut. In pursuit of the franchise's first World Series championship since 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies did something this season that the ownership group had resisted doing in the past: going. He finally did move him, reluctantly and only after it had become apparent that Roberts and new manager Gene Mauch couldnt get along. The team would have four managers, once lost 103 games, and drew just 140,771 paying customers one season. The militant, arrogant, and often stubborn Rogers, who frequently battled with Reach, took over control of the operation of the team. His death led to the tenure of William F. Baker, who became the teams primary owner and president. 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. While most people in the media focused on his announced hiring of Andy MacPhail as President I was more interested in Middleton's comments regarding the ownership of the Phillies. She and David Montgomery are also on the board of the Schuylkill Center, a local conservation group. Philadelphia Phillies fans enter the Baker Bowl for a game in 1915. Westcott, Rich. Giles, who reportedly had put up only $50,000 for a 10 percent ownership, had partners that included Taft Broadcasting Company, which owned Channel 29 in Philadelphia and which was granted rights to the Phillies games for 10 years beginning in 1982. By then, the A. J. In 1941 he became part-owner of the football New York Americans. No partner owns a majority of the team. The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League.In the franchise's history, the owners and ownership syndicates of the team have employed 11 general managers (GMs) and appointed 15 team presidents. The writers in Fogels group wrote articles about his comments. Cox was an astute businessman. He was shocked when some of the writers advised him to stay out of the clubhouse. David Montgomery said recently that the Phillies owners are in the red and have been since they took over the team. 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. On at least one other occasion, he used his own salary to pay a debt, although he and Mae reportedly drew a combined salary of only $20,000. He also vainly attempted to form a 10-nation soccer league. Shettsline, a resident of Glenolden in Delaware County, served through the 1908 season, during which time the Phillies finished third once and fourth three times. The stadium would be called Baker Bowl for the rest of its long life. He served in that position until 1952, then took a post as a stockbroker for a prestigious Philadelphia firm. Baker also failed to endear himself to the loyal Phillies fans in 1925 when, in Common Pleas Court testifying in a suit contesting the ownership of shares of Phillies stock, Baker admitted that he was hoping to sell the team eventually. Simultaneously, he took in a partner, Benjamin J. Shibe, an expert on leather and a manufacturer of horse whips. The Phillies are currently overseen by team president, Andy MacPhail.[6]. Finally, on November 23, 1943, Landis announced that he was banning Cox from Organized Baseball for life. That all changed in 1883. Claire S. Betz is approaching the age of 90 and shares time between her homes in Gwynedd, PA and Key Largo, Florida. While Nugents mind worked overtime, his players did little else but lose. At the time of Bakers death, he and Ruch owned the controlling interest in the Phillies. The great right-hander, often rated by Carpenter as his number-one player, performed brilliantly year after year in Philadelphia, at one point winning 20 or more games in six straight years. Al Kaline and Carl Yastrzemski could have worn Phillies uniforms, but got away. The Betz made their fortune through a family-owned water-purifying company called Betz Laboratories of which John Betz was the chairman. They are the nucleus of our club, the foundation from which we must build.. His first team finished second to the world champion St. Louis Cardinals in the National League East. 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. If you are a Phillies fan, I think you will enjoy this. He is a 1977 graduate of Amherst College, and according to them, "Middleton heads his family's business, which includes McIntosh Inns, Bradford Holdings, and Double Play, Inc." He inherited his portion of the ownership from his father, Herbert H. Middleton. He initiated the formation of the Phillie Phanatic, a team mascot that, played first by Dave Raymond and then Tom Burgoyne, became the most highly acclaimed mascot in the nation. Meanwhile, Nugent sadly closed his office at Phillies headquarters in the Packard Building. But Bakers will stipulated that the club could not be sold. Then he shifted his focus to the Worcester Ruby Legs (or Brown Stockings as some called them). They had been gobbled up by other teams as soon as it became apparent that the failing Worcester team would be folded. Then, after buying 53 percent of the stock in the Cubs, he became the teams president in 1906. Many have tried, and none have succeeded. (Neither Quakers, Live Wires, Blue Jays, Whiz Kids, nor any other name was ever officially registered as the teams nickname.). The store thrived and by 1881 Reach moved to a larger store. Bob changed the image of the club, giving it the respectability it had for so long been lacking while finishing in the first division just once between 1918 through 1948. After serving for three years in the US Air Force, he joined the Reds front office on a full-time basis. The teasing and criticism from my teammates and classmates in college convinced me that I wanted to do something about the Phillies. Meanwhile, the rival Athletics of the new American League won five pennants and three World Series between 1902 and 1913 while becoming the favorite team of Philadelphia baseball fans. Carpenters side won both battles. Fan interest was also reviving as the Phillies finally became once again a top contender in the National League East. Available now! The new owner appeared almost immediately. He stayed until 1914 when he was ousted by the leagues other owners after an acrimonious relationship that came to an end after Murphy was accused of mishandling the contracts of some of his players, especially former player and current manager Johnny Evers. The remark landed like an exploded bomb. He put together a group in which he was the biggest investor and which included a cousin, William F. Baker, a former New York City police commissioner and a man of considerable means. But that was the only time the club finished in the first division between 1918 and 1949. 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. 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. He was a member of baseballs television committee, which had entrusted to it the matter of the distribution of potential cable monies and, ultimately, the shape of the game for years to come. Among these were an annual fund-raising event for ALS, several baseball programs for urban youth, and other programs that supported teachers, fitness programs, and pets. He also spent 10 years as editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star and later owned the Cincinnati Post. Before retiring, Reach sold his company to the rival Spalding firm. The two dated, and eventually Mallon introduced Nugent to her boss. Three years later, he became the Phillies president. Weve got to get those big cities back into our league, he said. Once he was installed as president of the Phillies, despite his teams sometimes shoddy performances, Carpenter became a major power in the National League. John Middleton Announces New Changes in Phillies Ownership. The Phillies also committed $1 million to part-time employees, many of whom received stipends on Friday. He had to cut overhead expenses and at the same time satisfy the stars.. A former softball star on the widely heralded Bobbies and a former Navy officer, she is believed to have been the first female scout in baseball. One night in 1912 Fogel was drinking with some writer friends, and at one point said the National League pennant race was fixed. The group also hired Pete Mackanin as manager in 2015, but fired him after the 2017 season, despite his having been signed through 2018. Prior to this position, Christa worked in the Phillies advertising department as an advertising sales coordinator, where she sold corporate partnerships for the club for five years. Under Shettslines leadership, the 1908 Phillies drew 420,660, a club record to that point. The Phillies finished seventh that year. Instead, following a strike that began late in the1994 season and carried into 1995, the Phillies never recovered the glory of 1993 and faded back into mediocrity. The roots had been planted to turn the team around by developing players instead of trying to trade for them. He was raised in Brooklyn, where his industrious nature surfaced early. The sale was finalized on October 29, 1981, with a group of investors paying a reported $30 million. Located on the corner of Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia, it was built at a cost of $101,000 alongside a creek and over a dump that required 120,000 wagonloads of dirt to fill the pits and gullies and bring it to street level. Later, he founded his own lumber firm. His action earned his team a 15-yard penalty. Justin pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and John died of cancer at the age of 72 during the trial. Lets stop it right there and get them out of here. Locke worked hard to build a team that had finished third once, fourth five times, and fifth twice in the previous eight years. The relationship between Reach and Shibe couldnt have been better. While winning the World Series in 2008 took a ton of heat off the Phillies owners, fans renewed their hatred for the faceless, nameless individuals who we never see or hear when the club dealt Cliff Lee for the likely reason of saving $9 million bucks. The Potter groups purchase of the team launched the Phillies downfall. When the team was sold in 1981, the detail-oriented Montgomery was named executive vice president, a job in which he ran the daily business operation of the club. After he bought the team and became president, it didnt take long for Potters collapse to begin. His trades rarely helped the club, except at the bank. The new president, who delighted in suiting up and practicing with the team, worked diligently to build the club into a winner. He moved Alexander and Bill Killefer to the Cubs for $60,000, pitcher Mike Pendergast, and catcher Pickles Dillhoefer. Find out all the different ways to contact the Phillies. In his 10 seasons at the helm of the Phillies, Nugent ruled over the sorriest period in the clubs history. The company opened another plant in Brantford, Ontario, and moved its store to a large building in downtown Philadelphia. Taft had contributed $15 million, good for a 47 percent ownership. Shortly after he took over the team, he named the Phillies ballpark after himself. John Middleton, frontman for the Phillies' ownership group, bellied up to the billionaires' bar here late Friday night and plunked down a cool $100 million to win the bidding on a five-year. By this time, though, the Phillies debts were still mounting. In an era when most baseball teams were the part-time toys of owners whose main interests and occupations were elsewhere, Robert R.M. These actions helped to rebuild the Phillies into a contender. The appointment in 1997 of David Montgomery as the leader of the Phillies was more than simply a case of another local boy making good in his hometown. Reach died on January 14, 1928. He was dismissed after that season, and named the clubs business manager. Cox made a habit of barging into the locker room before and after games, a practice generally frowned on. Bob once offered the Cardinals $500,000 for Stan Musial. After a well-publicized battle that culminated in a stormy meeting of the teams owners, the group lost its case because of insufficient support.8, In his Thanksgiving Day column in the Philadelphia Record the next day, Red Smith wrote: Because holders of at least 51 percent of the Phillies stock agree he is a peachy fellow, turkey will grace the Nugent board this gladsome day, even though crow may be the piece de resistance for some minority stockholders.. (Courtesy of Getty Images). Fogel said that the umpires were told to favor the New York Giants, and that St. Louis Cardinals manager Roger Bresnahan always played his weakest lineup against his former team. Then, in 1934, Mrs. Baker died, leaving her 700 shares to Mrs. Nugent and the Nugents son, Gerald. The first thing I want to do is build up the farm system, said Carpenter at his first Phillies press conference. Du Pont de Nemours Company. Reach accepted the offer and, although he continued to live in Brooklyn, joined the Athletics in 1863. But his efforts suddenly ended. But at least he kept the fans talking about him and his ball club., Cox tried a lot of schemes to generate interest. Meanwhile, Carpenter lavished huge sums on young players. For years, the Phillies treated the luxury tax threshold as a salary cap, but last year, Dave Dombrowski finally convinced ownership to exceed that limit. Montgomery remained with the team with the title of chairman. 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