[Mick]

[quote author=BobK link=topic=17367.msg200211#msg200211 date=1505157892]
I was fortunate to be at the old Phillis stadium in 1968. 

While I might have seen Ennis once in person I don't recall.  However I sure don't recall anyone thinking he was a good LFer.  Phogge?

Ennis was not mentioned in the conversation about good OF's in the 50's. He was a clutch hitter on a team that couldn't pitch except for Bunning. He also belonged to the club of aged hitters picked up during stretch runs. His case with the Chisox in '59 but he didn't make their WS roster.

Mick has stats in his blood and he's always ready. So... what did I hit for SFS in 1966?
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Phogge, you hit .362 against LHP and 279 against LHP.  Off-speed stuff was your weakness, low-outside fastball could get you out.  Actually, I have no idea... :P

Here's how bad Philly fans were.  Del Ennis once hit three HRs in a game for Philly, with 7 RBIs, one short of the National League record at the time.  He popped up in his fourth at bat and they booed him.  Ennis was from North Philly, and the South Philly fans didn't like him at all.  A common complaint about Ennis was that he struck out too much.  His highest one-year strikeout total?  62.  Rob Deer would get that in two months.  Only Stan Musial had more RBIs than Ennis from 1948 to 1956, but they still kept booing him.

The White Sox didn't keep him for the '59 series, but they voted him a 1/4 share.  He had four game winning hits that 1959 season.  The Sox waived him (a) because Ennis had some personal issues that ended his career and (b) they wanted to bring up rookie Norm Cash who had an all-world rookie season for Detroit the next year, batting .360.

Ennis is well thought of by the Philly franchise.  In their list of champions, their Hall of Fame, he was the fifth one elected after Richie Ashburn, Robin Roberts, Chuck Klein and Grover Alexander.

[Mick]

[quote author=BobK link=topic=17367.msg200211#msg200211 date=1505157892]
I was fortunate to be at the old Phillis stadium in 1968. 

While I might have seen Ennis once in person I don't recall.  However I sure don't recall anyone thinking he was a good LFer.  Phogge?

Ennis was not mentioned in the conversation about good OF's in the 50's. He was a clutch hitter on a team that couldn't pitch except for Bunning. He also belonged to the club of aged hitters picked up during stretch runs. His case with the Chisox in '59 but he didn't make their WS roster.

Mick has stats in his blood and he's always ready. So... what did I hit for SFS in 1966?
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Phogge, you hit .362 against LHP and 279 against LHP.  Off-speed stuff was your weakness, low-outside fastball could get you out.  Actually, I have no idea... :P

Here's how bad Philly fans were.  Del Ennis once hit three HRs in a game for Philly, with 7 RBIs, one short of the National League record at the time.  He popped up in his fourth at bat and they booed him.  Ennis was from North Philly, and the South Philly fans didn't like him at all.  A common complaint about Ennis was that he struck out too much.  His highest one-year strikeout total?  62.  Rob Deer would get that in two months.  Only Stan Musial had more RBIs than Ennis from 1948 to 1956, but they still kept booing him.

The White Sox didn't keep him for the '59 series, but they voted him a 1/4 share.  He had four game winning hits that 1959 season.  The Sox waived him (a) because Ennis had some personal issues that ended his career and (b) they wanted to bring up rookie Norm Cash who had an all-world rookie season for Detroit the next year, batting .360.

Ennis is well thought of by the Philly franchise.  In their list of champions, their Hall of Fame, he was the fifth one elected after Richie Ashburn, Robin Roberts, Chuck Klein and Grover Alexander.