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Summer of the Cheap Wieners: What the 1941 Phillies Were Up to While Joe Dimaggio Was Making History
"Hyper-detailed and rollickingly funny, Summer of the Cheap Wieners does well to celebrate the agony and the...
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"Hyper-detailed and rollickingly funny, Summer of the Cheap Wieners does well to celebrate the agony and the ecstasy of America's pastime." - Booklist
Meet the 1941 Phillies: A sad little ball club with a fading number of disgruntled fans. They aren't very good now, and they won't be soon. But the Phillies of 1941 certainly are a team--just like all the others, with a uniform and a roster full of players: Cheap ones, angry ones, regretful ones, with nicknames like "Boom-Boom" and "Dangerous Dan." Together, they'll find a way to win about 40 or so baseball games. Also together, they will lose far more.
Their season starts poorly and by May they've traded their last player of any value. Meanwhile, Joe DiMaggio has been drawing boos from bored Yankee fans until he hits a fateful little dribbler that turns into a 56-game hit streak. As the summer goes on, the Phillies try to strangle each other, resent the pity of their opponents, and watch their manager lose his sanity and his job security. For some reason, everyone seems a lot more interested in the DiMaggio thing while meetings are quietly held by league officials to discuss how no one is even buying hot dogs at Phillies games.
The summer of 1941 is the setting of eternal baseball lore including DiMaggio's streak, Ted Williams winning the All-Star Game, and the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking free of their iconic dreadfulness, all as tanks roll across Europe. There's a lot going on in the world, but the Phillies are willing to settle for fewer mean columns being written about them. After all, they have a season to play, too; loss by loss, heartbreak by heartbreak, attempted strangling by attempted strangling.
It was a season that deserved to be forgotten and quickly was. But it taught the Phillies, their fans, and the city of Philadelphia that some players make history; a lot more of them are just playing through it.
Author: Justin Klugh
Publisher: Brookline Books
Published: 02/19/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.92w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781955041584
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2026
About the Author
Klugh, Justin: - Justin Klugh is an award-winning writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A former season ticket holder at Citizens Bank Park and lost child at Veterans Stadium, he eventually graduated from Temple University in 2009 and spent his formative years writing features for Philly.com. His sports writing has also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Athletic, and Baseball Prospectus. He is also the co-host of multiple Phillies podcasts including Hittin' Season, a Phillies podcast for WHYY, and The Dirty Inning, about the dumbest, funniest, and most obscure innings in Phillies history. He is the owner of a signed picture of Gene Mauch shouting and waving his arms (the signature is not Gene Mauch's).
Meet the 1941 Phillies: A sad little ball club with a fading number of disgruntled fans. They aren't very good now, and they won't be soon. But the Phillies of 1941 certainly are a team--just like all the others, with a uniform and a roster full of players: Cheap ones, angry ones, regretful ones, with nicknames like "Boom-Boom" and "Dangerous Dan." Together, they'll find a way to win about 40 or so baseball games. Also together, they will lose far more.
Their season starts poorly and by May they've traded their last player of any value. Meanwhile, Joe DiMaggio has been drawing boos from bored Yankee fans until he hits a fateful little dribbler that turns into a 56-game hit streak. As the summer goes on, the Phillies try to strangle each other, resent the pity of their opponents, and watch their manager lose his sanity and his job security. For some reason, everyone seems a lot more interested in the DiMaggio thing while meetings are quietly held by league officials to discuss how no one is even buying hot dogs at Phillies games.
The summer of 1941 is the setting of eternal baseball lore including DiMaggio's streak, Ted Williams winning the All-Star Game, and the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking free of their iconic dreadfulness, all as tanks roll across Europe. There's a lot going on in the world, but the Phillies are willing to settle for fewer mean columns being written about them. After all, they have a season to play, too; loss by loss, heartbreak by heartbreak, attempted strangling by attempted strangling.
It was a season that deserved to be forgotten and quickly was. But it taught the Phillies, their fans, and the city of Philadelphia that some players make history; a lot more of them are just playing through it.
Author: Justin Klugh
Publisher: Brookline Books
Published: 02/19/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.92w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781955041584
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2026
About the Author
Klugh, Justin: - Justin Klugh is an award-winning writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A former season ticket holder at Citizens Bank Park and lost child at Veterans Stadium, he eventually graduated from Temple University in 2009 and spent his formative years writing features for Philly.com. His sports writing has also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Athletic, and Baseball Prospectus. He is also the co-host of multiple Phillies podcasts including Hittin' Season, a Phillies podcast for WHYY, and The Dirty Inning, about the dumbest, funniest, and most obscure innings in Phillies history. He is the owner of a signed picture of Gene Mauch shouting and waving his arms (the signature is not Gene Mauch's).
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