A Tribute to a Beloved and Famous Baseball Team—the World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies.

If you love everything baseball, you’ll want to pick up a copy of Phillies Journal 1888-2008 by author Max Blue.

Get ready to laugh out loud as writer Max Blue pays homage to what he refers to as the “baseball gods” and his beloved Phillies.  Opening this book is like opening night at the World Series!

Included in Blue’s humorous book: a play-by-play account of the 1915 Phillies-Red Sox World Series, a pitch-by-pitch account of Grover Cleveland Alexander’s 1916 season when he won 32 games for the Phillies, including 16 shutouts, and a summary of the 1922 Wrigley Field game: Cubs 26, Phillies 23 –  the highest scoring nine inning game in Major League history.  

With wit and insight, Blue delivers a jam-packed account of milestones, rundowns, and nearly 1,000 limericks regaling the team, its players and legendary games.  Relive the glory days of baseball!  Blue will take you out to the ballgame and you’ll be glad you took this nostalgic journey to what he describes as “a mystical love for this green field in the sun.”

About the Author

A retired Penn State University professor and 79-years young, Max Blue currently lives, works, eats and sleeps baseball.  He lives with his wife, the luminous Liddy, in New Jersey, a mere 20-minute ride to Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies play in south Philadelphia.  Back when “Max Blue” was known as Paul Fritz, he played a season of professional baseball as catcher on the 1950 Appleton Papermakers, a Class D Wisconsin State League affiliate of the St. Louis Browns. Blue has four children and five grandchildren and is currently at work on two novels, of course, also continuing to write about baseball.  He does his best writing on a mountaintop in Costa Rica at 3 a.m. after 5 or 6 hours of sleep.

Visit the author’s website: http://maxblue3.tripod.com/

Review

"Max Blue is first and foremost a baseball fan.  His love of the game comes through with his spot-on account of Phillies baseball laced with a great sense of humor.

When Blue moved to Philadelphia in the early 90s he began writing about the Phillies and now has published PHILLIES JOURNAL 1888-2008, a book dotted with early Phillies history, but primarily featuring more than 1,000 limericks about Phillies' games beginning with Lenny Dykstra and ending with the glorious 2008 championship season.

I like this book."

Chris Wheeler
Philadelphia Phillies TV and Radio announcer