Richie Ashburn

...break into the Bank and see Game 4 without a ticket. Jack McMenamin, who's been coming to Phils games since 1959, when he saw Richie Ashburn awarded the batting title, wore the tux last night because this was his first time seeing a World...

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...did not integrate until 1955, the Phillies until 1957. "That period was not baseball's finest hour," Phillies center fielder Richie Ashburn told the Philadelphia Inquirer decades later. Those Phillies were one-year wonders who finished...

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...things to go. Them against the Yankees, the Phillies trying to avenge his best friend's loss in the 1950 World Series." If Richie Ashburn's loss is, in fact, avenged 59 years later, Jimmy Rollins has vowed to wear Harry's jacket at this...

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...home run leading off the top of the 10th. The Phillies had a runner on second with one out in the 10th, but Reynolds retired Richie Ashburn and Dick Sisler to end it. "I should have left after nine," Roberts said, laughing. "It was a...

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...in 1964. Grayson died after a yearlong bout with cancer in 1968 at age 74. Manager Eddie Sawyer's team was led by centerfielder Richie Ashburn (23); rightfielder Del Ennis (24); third baseman Willie Jones (24); shortstop Granny Hamner (22);...

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...as the last 11. Thursday, Oct. 5, 1950/At Shibe Park New York: 010 000 000 1 - 2 10 0 Phillies: 000 010 000 0 - 1 7 0 RECAP: Richie Ashburn 's fifth-inning sacrifice fly answered Gene Woodling 's second-inning RBI single. Joe...

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...the Phils won 91 games and drew four times as many people as the A's. "It was like first love," Ashburn remembered. And the Phillies were good. Ashburn hit .303. Sisler had 25 homers. Del Innis cracked 31, added 126 RBIs, hit .311.

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...Sixth Boroughs an opportunity to exact a measure of revenge, and win this one for Whitey as well. Fifty-nine years ago, Richie Ashburn was one of a number of young cogs in the Phillies' machine. There he was, alongside 20-game winner Robin...

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Back in 1950, the Yankees and Phillies met in the World Series. Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford and the Yankees swept Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn and the Phillies, with every game tight. Philly rooters were all set to see the Yankees again in...

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...up. I'd be happy about that." That year's Phillies team came to be known as the Whiz Kids because several of the star players Richie Ashburn, Robin Roberts and Simmons among them were under 25. "We just clicked that year," Simmons said.

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