The fall of the 1977 phillies how a baseball teams collapse sank a citys spirit on october 7 1977 the philadelphia phillies lost a playoff game to the dodgers a game that began so hopefully and ended so disastrously that it has become known in philadelphia simply as black friday. The fall of the 1977 phillies how a baseball teams collapse sank a citys spirit review january 2009 nine a journal of baseball history and culture 172157 159. The fall of the 1977 phillies how a baseball teams collapse sank a citys spirit amazonin nathanson mitchell books. The fall of the 1977 phillies explores these roots by providing a social history of philadelphia through the lens of its professional baseball teams first the beloved athletics and later the until very recently despised phillies it traces the roots of the citys inferiority complex back to its origins in the early 19th century and examines how over time the citys loss of national stature in the political financial and intellectual arenas much of this at the hands of jealous . This item the fall of the 1977 phillies how a baseball teams collapse sank a citys spirit by mitchell nathanson paperback 2500 only 6 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom