Philadelphia Teams Final Round Notes

Philadelphia major sports league teams (the 4 current and the former ones, the Athletics and Warriors), have made 37 final round entities (in football 4 NFL “all the way” title games and now a 5th Supe), going (17-23) in previous such.

The glorious, great and largely forgotten (they also had far more bad years but they were truly the “little girl with the curl”) Philadelphia Athletics were (5-3) in World Series play, the current baseball team the Phillies are (2-6).

Once Philadelphia had the Warriors before they moved to the West Coast really S.F./Oakland Bay Area, beginning with the 1962-1963 NBA season. That team won the first NBA crown in 1947 and another in 1956 while losing in such to the defunct Baltimore Bullets, coached by Buddy Jeannette in 1948.

Hockey’s Flyers won their first two Cup Final rounds, their last two wins, having lost in 5 straight final round appearances.

Football’s Eagles “go in” (4-4) in final round entities, (3-1) in all the way NFL title tilts (wins in their last 3 in ’48,’49 and ’60 after losing to the lone Cardinals’ franchise title team in ’47) but only (1-3) in Super Bowls, including a (38-35) really tough loss to today’s opponent, the current two time champion, Kansas City Chiefs.

Jimmy Dykes, pictured above, was a major contributor to the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics’ title team. He also was on the ’30 champions and the ’31 team “Pepper’d” by John “Pepper” Martin and the Cards in the ’31 W.S.

Philadelphia up (2-1) in the ’29 W.S. certainly appeared headed for (2-2), trailing the Cubs (8-0), before they scored 10 runs (B7) to win game 4 (10-8). Dykes had the big hit though the superb Baseball Reference credits such to Jimmy Foxx.

In 1929, Dykes had a career-high .327 batting average and was ninth in the American League in slugging, helping the Athletics win their first American League pennant in 15 years by 18 games over the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.^[1] He was one of six Athletics players to post batting averages above .310 during the 1929 season.^[1] Dykes capped the season by hitting .421 in the World Series against the Chicago Cubs; in Game 4, he had two hits and three runs batted in in a 10-run seventh inning as Philadelphia overcame an 8–0 deficit, and went on to win the Series in five games.