Last of three parts
WHEN I EXPRESSED skepticism about the Phillies' pursuit of Andy MacPhail in a column a couple of weeks before he was hired as the next president, I received a handful of emails accusing me of ageism. This was mostly because I couldn't resist the temptation to take a few gratuitous shots at the baby boomers, a generation which, it turns out, has quite a few members, plus a whole bunch of newly acquired free time that it is still trying to figure out how to fill. But there were also several readers who thought I was accusing MacPhail of simply being too old to be a capable chief executive in a sport that has witnessed a technological revolution over the last decade.