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{weblog_name} - THE PHILLIES AND YANKEES 59 YEARS AGO IN THE SERIES.
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  When the Yankees and Phillies begin the 2009 World Series in the Bronx tonight, it will have baseball historians reminding fans of the last time these two teams played for a championship 59 years ago when Philadelphia’s surprising 1950 “Whiz Kids’’ captured the heart of the country.   But there will be no “first-hand’’ accounts of how these young upstarts gave the “City of Brotherly Love’’ its first National League pennant in 35 years, dating back to Woodrow Wilson’s days in the White House.  The sportswriters who actually covered the ’50 Series are long gone, as are all but a handful of the players on that historic team.   But a little background on the long suffering Philadelphia franchise is needed to put things in perspective.  After replacing Worcester (Mass.) in 1883, Philadelphia could lay claim to being… read more