Minor League and Military Service
Phillips was sent to the Stroudsburg Poconos (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) of the North Atlantic League where he hit .302 in 11 games played. In 1951, he moved up to Thomasville (Thomasville, Georgia) Tigers' farm club in the Class D Georgia-Florida league where he hit .329 in 138 games. In 1952, he hit .291 with the Tigers' International League farm team at Buffalo, New York.
He was drafted into military service for two years and spent 1953 and 1954 with the United States Army.
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