Horace B. Phillips (May 14, 1853 – February 26, 1896) was an American manager in Major League Baseball for eight seasons, from 1879 to 1889.

[2] On June 6, 1882, Phillips was arrested in Philadelphia for not paying a hotel bill from 1882.

Reach was put in charge of paying it, but he eventually paid the bill himself and was released.

[3] Shortly after his time in Pittsburgh, Phillips was institutionalized for mental illness in the Kirkbride's Asylum in Philadelphia, then later in a private hospital in Merchantville, New Jersey.

[4] He died in 1896, and is buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Philadelphia.