The 1981 season was a watershed for the Phillies and baseball. A players strike led to a sixty-day work stoppage. Based on personal interviews, and newspaper accounts, this book explains why a team that had regularly made the post-season in the mid-MoreThe 1981 season was a watershed for the Phillies and baseball. A players strike led to a sixty-day work stoppage. Based on personal interviews, and newspaper accounts, this book explains why a team that had regularly made the post-season in the mid- to late 1970s, only to lose in the playoffs, was finally able to win its first world championship.