The city of Philadelphia has played host to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game four times in the 83-year history of baseball's midsummer classic. In both 1943 and 1952 the game was heldĀ at Shibe Park, with the NL taking the first by a 5-3 score and the AL coming back with a 3-2 victory in … Continue reading Phillies MLB All-Star Games: 1976
Philography: Larry Bowa
Philography: Larry Bowa
1971 Phillies: My first team
I was just nine years old when a then ultra-modern sports cathedral known as Veteran's Memorial Stadium, aka Veterans Stadium or more simply "The Vet" opened virtually at my backyard in South Philly. And it was the 1971 Phillies team, the first to play on a new Astroturf surface, that became the very first Phillies … Continue reading 1971 Phillies: My first team
MATT VEASEY 