Since the fall of 2014, I’ve been running an off-season series titled “Philography” in which I present a brief biography of the important players in the Phillies’ past, both recent and distant. I try to mostly key on their playing career, but also toss in a few personal tidbits to frame their background.
In two chapters of the series earlier in this current off-season, I covered a pair of shortstops who were vital to National League pennant-winning Phillies teams of the past. Larry Bowa was the starting shortstop with the NL pennant winners who also won the World Series in 1980, and Kevin Stocker solidified the position during the magical 1993 summer of Macho Row.