Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code

Product Description

Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team,
Macho Row follows the remarkable season with an up-close look at the players’ lives, the team’s triumphs and failures, and what made this group so unique and so successful.

With a throwback mentality, the team adhered to baseball’s
Code. Designed to preserve the moral fabric of the game, the Code’s unwritten rules formed the bedrock of this diehard team whose players paid homage and respect to the game at all times. Trusting one another and avoiding any notions of superstardom, they consistently rubbed the opposition the wrong way and didn’t care. William C. Kashatus pulls back the covers on this old-school band of brothers, depicting the highs and lows and their brash style while also digging into the suspected steroid use of players on the team.
Macho Row is a story of winning and losing, success and failure, and the emotional highs and lows that accompany them.
 

Review

”
Macho Row features a lively cast of characters, players that Major League baseball will probably never witness again.”—Jack Ryan,
ARETE
Published On: 2017-09-05

”
Macho Row is a well-documented book that broaches important themes beyond Philadelphia— steroids and sabermetrics—without delving into the detail that other studies focused on those topics have.”—Craig R. Coenen, 
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies

“The 1993 Phillies captured the imaginations of fans with their hard-edged, take-no-prisoners attitude.”—Billy Beane, executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics
Published On: 2016-09-07

“The [1993] Phillies were loud, irreverent, and politically incorrect.
Macho Row vividly re-creates their rowdy, memorable season, warts and all.”—Paul Hagen, former baseball writer for the
Philadelphia Daily News
Published On: 2016-09-07

“Inspiring as well as tragic,
Macho Row is ultimately a cautionary tale about the price some athletes pay after their playing days are over.”—Al Tielemans, photographer for
Sports Illustrated
Published On: 2016-09-07

About the Author

William C. Kashatus holds a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of more than twenty books, including
Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Line (Nebraska, 2014). He has also published essays in a multitude of periodicals, including the
Philadelphia Inquirer,
American History Magazine,
Baltimore Sun,
Christian Science Monitor,
New York Times, and the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kashatus has appeared on NPR and Pennsylvania Cable Network, as well as on many local television and radio stations.