2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Phillies Photos

Today's edition of the 2008 Nittanydelphia Holiday Gift Guide brings us back to the Phillies.

Phillies Photos by Mark Stang offers over 245 black and white photos over the course of over 100 years of Phillies baseball, spanning from 1900 to the concluded 2008 season. Hardbound and 208 pages make a terrific archive.

Here is an editorial review from Amazon;

"Mark Stang is the author of Athletics Album, A Photo History of the Philadelphia Athletics: Cardinals Collection, 100 Years of St. Louis Cardinals Images: Cubs Collection, 100 Years of Chicago Cubs Images and Indians Illustrated, 100 Years of Cleveland Indians Photos (all by Orange Frazer Press)as well as Baseball by the Numbers (Scarecrow Press), the guide to Major League player uniform numbers. Stang received the 1991 SABR MacMillan Research Award for this book."

"He also co-authored (along with Greg Rhodes) Reds in Black and White, 100 Years of Cincinnati Reds Images (Road West Publishing). The book won the 1999 SABR/Sporting News Baseball Research Award. He also co-authored (along with Phil Wood) Nationals on Parade, 70 Years of Washington Nationals Photos, published by Orange Frazer Press in 2005. A native of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Stang now resides in Tampa, Florida with his wife, Rosemary."

If you are interested in purchasing this book for the holidays online you should get your order in soon as Amazon is stating that it could take 10-13 days to receive. You can place your order here, and don't forget to browse the rest of the store's items and save on shipping!