Phillips didn’t stick in the ML until he was 31, when he was 17-9 for the 1899 Reds. In 1914 he managed the Federal League‘s first pennant winner at Indianapolis, with Benny Kauff, Bill McKechnie, and Edd Roush as the team’s stars.
Phillips didn’t stick in the ML until he was 31, when he was 17-9 for the 1899 Reds. In 1914 he managed the Federal League‘s first pennant winner at Indianapolis, with Benny Kauff, Bill McKechnie, and Edd Roush as the team’s stars.