117 Fun Facts About Philadelphia Phillies

Which team did the Phillies beat for their first World Series championship in 1980?

Kansas City Royals fell in six games, Tug McGraw striking out the final batter at 11:29 pm; until then the Phillies had been the only one of the 16 pre-expansion franchises never to win a World Series.

Who did the Phillies defeat in the 2008 World Series?

Tampa Bay Rays had finished with the American League's worst record just a year earlier; the Phillies beat them in five games for Philadelphia's first major title since the 76ers in 1983.

Which pitcher was named MVP of the 2008 World Series?

Cole Hamels was also MVP of the NLCS that October; seven years later he no-hit the Cubs at Wrigley Field in what proved his final start for the Phillies, who traded him six days afterwards.

Which rival manager attacked the Phillie Phanatic in 1988?

Tommy Lasorda saw the Phanatic mocking him with a dummy dressed in his uniform, chased the mascot, shoved him over and beat him with it; years later he was still writing that he hated the Phanatic.

According to his official biography, where was the Phillie Phanatic born?

Galápagos Islands is his official birthplace; the former club intern who first wore the suit, Dave Raymond, later founded the Mascot Hall of Fame and inducted the Phanatic in its first class.

Phanatic designer Bonnie Erickson had previously created which Muppet?

Miss Piggy and the grumpy hecklers Statler and Waldorf came first; Erickson then co-founded a design firm that built both the Phanatic and Youppi!, the mascot of the Montreal Expos.

Bill Giles saved $1,300 on the first Phanatic costume by declining to buy what?

The copyright stayed with the designers because Giles paid $3,900 for the costume alone rather than $5,200 for both; he later called it his worst decision, and the club had to buy the rights back.

What now covers the Veterans Stadium site?

A parking lot for the sports complex covers it: the Vet was demolished in March 2004 once the Phillies and the Eagles each had a new stadium next door.

What did Philadelphia station inside Veterans Stadium on Eagles game days to deal with unruly fans?

A municipal court judge, Seamus McCaffery, held 'Eagles Court' inside the stadium after a 1997 Monday night game produced more than 60 fistfights, dealing with offenders on the spot.

Ashburn Alley at Citizens Bank Park honors a Hall of Famer who played which position?

Center field was Richie Ashburn's post for 12 Phillies seasons; Cooperstown passed him over for decades until a long fan campaign helped get him elected in 1995.

Who managed the Phillies during the infamous collapse of 1964?

Gene Mauch sent aces Jim Bunning and Chris Short to the mound on only two days' rest as the lead melted away, and the Phillies lost ten games in a row.

Which team overtook the collapsing Phillies to win the 1964 National League pennant?

St. Louis Cardinals clinched on the final day, one game ahead of both the Phillies and the Reds, and went on to win the World Series.

The Phillies' 1964 September collapse began with a 1-0 loss when Cincinnati's Chico Ruiz did what?

Ruiz stole home plate with Frank Robinson, the Reds' best hitter, at bat; the startled pitcher threw wide, the run was the game's only one, and nine more defeats followed.

Jim Bunning threw a perfect game on Father's Day 1964 against which team?

New York Mets hitters went 27 up, 27 down at Shea Stadium, the National League's first perfect game since 1880; three months later Bunning was being sent out on two days' rest as the pennant slipped away.

Which 1964 NL Rookie of the Year had his number 15 retired by the Phillies in 2020?

Dick Allen took to wearing his batting helmet in the field after fans threw objects at him, which earned him the nickname 'Crash'; he was inducted at Cooperstown in 2025, nearly five years after his death.

Which Phillies closer gave up Joe Carter's Series-ending home run in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series?

Mitch Williams had already received death threats after losing Game 4 of that Series, and the Phillies traded him to Houston before the next season began.

What was the nickname of the Phillies' 1993 closer, who saved a career-high 43 games that year?

Wild Thing was also the nickname of the erratic reliever in the 1989 film Major League; in 1993 the Phillies closer switched his uniform number to that character's 99.

What nickname did the scruffy, mullet-wearing 1993 Phillies earn?

Macho Row went from last place in 1992 to the pennant, with Lenny Dykstra leading the league in both hits and runs.

The 1950 'Whiz Kids' were swept in the World Series by which team?

New York Yankees pitching made the difference in a sweep closer than it sounds: the first three games were each decided by one run, and the Phillies then waited 30 years to reach another World Series.

Which relief pitcher won the 1950 NL MVP and started Game 1 of that World Series?

Jim Konstanty, the first reliever ever voted MVP, got the surprise start because the staff ace had started three of the last five games of the pennant race; he allowed one run and lost 1-0.

The 1950 Whiz Kids clinched the pennant on the final day by beating which team in ten innings?

Brooklyn Dodgers nearly won it in the ninth, but Richie Ashburn threw out Cal Abrams at the plate, and Dick Sisler's three-run homer in the tenth gave the Phillies their first pennant in 35 years.

What nickname did Richie Ashburn's minor-league teammates give him because of his light blond hair?

Whitey stuck for life: Ashburn went on to call Phillies games from 1963 until September 1997, when he died in a New York hotel hours after working a broadcast.

What hit fan Alice Roth on her stretcher after Richie Ashburn's batted ball broke her nose?

A second foul hit her, again off Ashburn's bat and in the same at-bat; the two became friends, and her son later worked as a Phillies batboy.

Which Phillies ace won 28 games in 1952, the most in the National League since 1935?

Robin Roberts went 28-7, but the control that made him great cut both ways: he gave up 505 career home runs, a record until another Phillie, Jamie Moyer, passed it in 2010.

Which pitcher, who homered twice during his own 1971 no-hitter, did the Phillies trade away to get Steve Carlton?

Rick Wise went to St. Louis because the owner there ordered Carlton traded after a salary dispute; Carlton then won 27 games for a last-place Phillies team that won only 59.

Four-time Cy Young winner Steve Carlton was known throughout baseball by what nickname?

Lefty was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards, helped by a martial-arts training regime that had him working his pitching arm down through a bucket of rice.

What did Steve Carlton famously do for most of his Phillies career?

Carlton refused to speak to the press after reporters questioned his unusual training; by 1981 the joke ran that the league's two best pitchers, he and Mexican rookie Fernando Valenzuela, didn't speak English.

Which Phillies slugger finished his career with 548 home runs?

Mike Schmidt hit every one of them for the Phillies, then retired abruptly in May 1989, giving a tearful speech in San Diego barely two months into the season.

Which slugger did the Phillies trade in 2005 to make room for Ryan Howard?

Jim Thome had hit 47 homers for the Phillies in 2003, but an elbow injury in 2005 let Howard win Rookie of the Year in his place, and Thome was dealt to the White Sox after the season.

What was Ryan Howard's nickname?

The Big Piece tore his Achilles tendon running out the final out of the 2011 NLDS and did not play again until July 2012, though he stayed with the Phillies for the rest of his major-league career.

Chase Utley's five home runs in the 2009 World Series tied which player's record?

Reggie Jackson had set the mark in 1977; Utley matched it with two-homer nights in Games 1 and 5, yet the Phillies still lost the Series in six.

Before his MVP season, Jimmy Rollins riled the Mets by calling the Phillies what?

The team to beat was a bold call for a club without a playoff berth since 1993, but the Mets blew a seven-game lead with 17 to play and Rollins was named MVP.

Which longtime Cincinnati Reds star signed with the Phillies in December 1978 and helped them win the 1980 World Series?

Pete Rose got a four-year deal that briefly made him the highest-paid athlete in team sports; old teammates Joe Morgan and Tony Pérez followed him to Philadelphia for the 1983 pennant run.

Bryce Harper left which team to sign a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies in 2019?

Washington Nationals lost their biggest star to what was then the richest contract in North American sports, then won the World Series without him that very season.

Roy Halladay's 2010 perfect game came against which team?

Florida Marlins hitters never reached base that night in Miami; Halladay marked it by giving about 60 engraved Swiss watches to teammates and staff, in boxes inscribed 'We did it together.'

What phrase completed Harry Kalas' home run call, "Swing ... and a long drive, this ball is ..."?

"Outta here!" rang out until April 2009, when Kalas, the Phillies' voice since 1971, collapsed at the stadium on a road trip hours before a game; a fan-led drive later put a bronze statue of him at Citizens Bank Park.

What was the nickname of Grover Cleveland Alexander, who pitched the Phillies to their first pennant in 1915?

Old Pete won 31 games in 1915 and threw a record 16 shutouts the next year, yet in 1917 the Phillies dealt him to the Cubs for two players and $55,000, and he spent most of 1918 in the Army.

Which actor played Phillies great Grover Cleveland Alexander in the 1952 film The Winning Team?

Ronald Reagan starred opposite Doris Day, which left the pitcher with a unique double: named after one US president and played on screen by another.

Which Phillies outfielder won the 1933 National League Triple Crown?

Chuck Klein won it in the same year Jimmie Foxx of the crosstown Athletics took the American League's, yet that November the Phillies traded him to the Cubs for three players and $65,000.

Which slugger played the final game of his career at the Phillies' Baker Bowl in 1935?

Babe Ruth, aged 40 and playing for the Boston Braves, went hitless in his only at-bat, in a park whose right-field wall stood just 280 feet away.

What retort did fans famously add to the Baker Bowl's 'The Phillies Use Lifebuoy' soap advertisement?

"And they still stink" was hard to argue with: the 1936 Phillies lost 100 games, part of a 31-year stretch from 1918 to 1948 that produced exactly one winning season.

Why was Phillies owner William Cox banned from baseball for life in 1943?

Betting on his own team's games got Cox banned after less than a year in charge; the Carpenter family bought the club the same day and kept it until 1981.

Which alternate nickname did Phillies management pick from a fan contest before the 1944 season?

Blue Jays never caught on: the team went on playing as the Phillies throughout, and the club had dropped the idea by 1950.

The 2007 Phillies became the first American sports franchise with what?

Ten thousand losses arrived on July 15, 2007, the price of 125 seasons in one city, yet that same team won its division that fall and the World Series a year later.

Which batter did Tug McGraw strike out to end the 1980 World Series?

Willie Wilson's 12th strikeout of the Series set a record that stood until a Phillie, Ryan Howard, struck out 13 times in the 2009 World Series.

The Phillies' clinching Game 5 in 2008 was the first World Series game ever to be what?

Suspended and resumed two days later: rain stopped it in the sixth inning with the score tied, and the Phillies then needed only three more innings to win the title.

Which manager led the Phillies to five straight NL East titles and the 2008 World Series championship?

Charlie Manuel won 780 games in Philadelphia, yet was fired in August 2013, less than two years after the last of those titles; in Japan, where he had starred as a slugger, fans called him the Red Devil.

Which pitcher rejoined the Phillies for 2011 to complete the 'Four Aces'?

Cliff Lee had been traded away a year earlier in the reshuffle that brought in Roy Halladay, then came back to pitch beside him; the 2011 team won a club-record 102 games but lost its first playoff series.

Who took over as interim manager when the Phillies fired Joe Girardi in June 2022?

Rob Thomson, a Canadian bench coach who had planned to retire after that season, turned a losing club into National League champions, the first midseason replacement to reach the World Series since 2003.

Trea Turner left which team as a free agent to sign an 11-year, $300 million Phillies contract?

Los Angeles Dodgers had landed him alongside Max Scherzer in a 2021 deadline blockbuster, then let him walk after one full season; the Padres, who drafted him, had traded him before he reached the majors.

Which infield position did career outfielder Bryce Harper learn in 2023 while recovering from elbow surgery?

First base was open because Rhys Hoskins tore his ACL in spring training; Harper, back from his operation but not yet throwing from the outfield, offered to learn it mid-season.

Which Phillies slugger hit 47 home runs in 2023 despite batting just .197?

Kyle Schwarber also walked 126 times and struck out 215 times, so more than half of his trips to the plate ended in a home run, a walk or a strikeout.

After a viral fan campaign, how did Phillies fans greet a slumping Trea Turner on August 4, 2023?

With a standing ovation, urged by a fan's viral video, the crowd turned his season: Turner was hitting .235 at the time and batted .337 with 16 home runs over his remaining 48 games.

Which MLB record did Trea Turner set in 2023?

Most steals without being caught: Turner went 30-for-30 in the first season of bigger bases and limited pickoff throws, passing the 23-for-23 of another Phillie, Chase Utley, in 2009.

Who hit the sixth-inning grand slam that broke open Game 2 of the 2023 Wild Card Series against Miami?

Bryson Stott's first career grand slam turned a 3-0 game into a rout and completed a two-game sweep in which the Phillies never trailed.

Which Phillie hit two home runs in Game 3 and two more in Game 4 of the 2023 NLDS against Atlanta?

Nick Castellanos homered twice in each game as the 90-win Phillies knocked the 104-win Braves out of the playoffs for the second October running.

Which team beat the Phillies in seven games in the 2023 National League Championship Series?

Arizona Diamondbacks, an 84-win wild card, lost the first two games by a combined 15-3, then won four of the next five, taking Games 6 and 7 in Philadelphia.

Which Phillies closer recorded the 400th save of his career in Atlanta on May 26, 2023?

Craig Kimbrel became the eighth pitcher with 400 saves, earning it against the Braves, who had drafted him in 2008; that October he was the losing pitcher in back-to-back NLCS games.

Who struck out seven over six shutout innings as the Phillies won Game 2 of the 2023 NLCS 10-0?

Aaron Nola allowed three hits and no walks, then became a free agent weeks later and re-signed with the Phillies for seven years that November.

Which Phillies ace was MVP of the 1993 NLCS and later struck out 300 batters in back-to-back seasons?

Curt Schilling piled up those strikeouts for Phillies teams that never managed a winning record, so in 2000 he asked to be traded to a contender and was dealt away.

Which organiser of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first openly professional team, became Phillies manager in 1884?

Harry Wright inherited a club that had won 17 of 98 games in its first season and had it above .500 within two years, though he never won a pennant in ten seasons there.

What collapsed at the Phillies' ballpark in 1903, killing 12 fans?

A balcony overhanging the street gave way when fans crowded onto it to watch a commotion below, injuring 232 more.

Which Phillies closer converted all 48 of his save chances in 2008, postseason included?

Brad Lidge, acquired from Houston after losing the closer's job there, went 41-for-41 in the regular season and ended the World Series by striking out Eric Hinske.

Which colour, paired with powder-blue road uniforms, defined the Phillies' look in the 1970s and 1980s?

Burgundy was what the Phillies wore to win their first World Series in 1980; the look was retired after 1991, but the powder-blue throwbacks of that era have since returned as an alternate uniform.

Who was the first Phillie to hit four home runs in one game, in 1896?

Ed Delahanty's four homers, two of them inside the park, were still not enough: the Phillies lost the game 9-8.

Which Phillies starter won the 1983 NL Cy Young Award?

John Denny went 19-6 a year after going 6-13 with arm trouble, most of it for Cleveland, who traded him to the Phillies that September.

Which third baseman won the 1997 NL Rookie of the Year for the Phillies?

Scott Rolen later clashed with manager Larry Bowa, demanded a trade and was dealt away in July 2002 when the Phillies could not sign him long-term; he reached the Hall of Fame in 2023.

Which team beat the Phillies in six games in the 2022 World Series, throwing a combined no-hitter along the way?

The Houston Astros left the Phillies hitless in Game 4 in Philadelphia, the first no-hitter in a World Series since 1956.

For which company did Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas narrate football highlights from 1975 until his death?

NFL Films hired Kalas as a narrator in 1975, and he became its primary voice after John Facenda died in 1984.

Which song, in a Tiësto remix of Calum Scott's cover, became the Phillies' clubhouse anthem during the 2022 postseason?

Dancing On My Own began as a 2010 single by Swedish singer Robyn, and the Phillies liked the remix enough to carry it over into 2023.

Which Frank Sinatra song did Harry Kalas adopt as his anthem, now sung by fans after every Phillies home win?

High Hopes became a ballpark ritual after Kalas died in 2009: a video of him singing it plays while the crowd joins in.

In which Florida Gulf Coast city have the Phillies held spring training since 1947?

Clearwater has been the Phillies' spring home through three ballparks, and their Class A club, the Threshers, plays there all summer.

Which three-time Cy Young winner made the final starts of his career for the Phillies in the 2009 World Series?

Pedro Martínez sat out the first half of 2009, joined the Phillies in July on a one-year, $1 million deal and never pitched again after that Series.

Which Phillies outfielder, nicknamed the Flyin' Hawaiian, hit a grand slam off CC Sabathia in the 2008 playoffs?

Shane Victorino's shot against Milwaukee was the first postseason grand slam in Phillies history, and the first slam of his own big-league career.

Which 1993 Phillies slugger comically bailed out against Randy Johnson's fastballs in that summer's All-Star Game?

John Kruk feigned heart palpitations after the first pitch flew over his head to the backstop, then flailed wildly at what followed.

Which Phillies pitcher, a 45-year-old on the 2008 champions, had skipped school to attend the team's 1980 title parade?

Jamie Moyer grew up a Phillies fan in Souderton, Pennsylvania, and told the story of playing hooky himself at the 2008 celebration.

Which left fielder, the first overall pick of the 1998 draft, led the Phillies' 2008 World Series parade?

Pat Burrell was chosen to lead the parade, and his English bulldog, Elvis, was part of the procession too.

Which American League champion beat the 1983 Phillies in five games, with catcher Rick Dempsey named Series MVP?

The Baltimore Orioles dropped the opener at home, the first time in six World Series they had lost Game 1, then won four straight.

Which outfielder refused a 1969 trade to the Phillies and took baseball's reserve clause to the Supreme Court?

Curt Flood lost 5–3 in 1972, but his stand rallied players in the fight against the clause that kept them tied to one club.

Which Phillies outfielder won eight straight Gold Gloves and was dubbed the Secretary of Defense in 1976?

Garry Maddox served a year in Vietnam before his career took off, and kept a full beard afterwards because chemical exposure there left his skin sensitive.

Which Phillies slugger, nicknamed the Bull, opened a barbecue stand at Citizens Bank Park when it debuted in 2004?

Greg Luzinski set up in Section 140; in his playing days he was twice runner-up for NL MVP, in 1975 and 1977.

Which manager replaced Danny Ozark late in 1979 and drove the Phillies to a World Series title the next year?

Dallas Green later ran the Chicago Cubs' front office, building the 1984 club that ended a 39-year postseason drought.

Which catcher, nicknamed Dutch, anchored the pennant-winning 1993 Phillies a year after leading the league in RBIs?

Darren Daulton drove in 109 runs in 1992, a rebound from a 1991 slump in which his batting average fell below .200.

Which 1993 Phillies leadoff man, nicknamed Nails, finished second to Barry Bonds in that year's NL MVP voting?

Lenny Dykstra led the league in runs, hits and walks in 1993, yet was left off that summer's All-Star team.

Which future Hall of Fame second baseman did the Phillies trade away before 1982 after only one big-league hit?

Ryne Sandberg was voted NL MVP with the Cubs two years later, then came back to manage the Phillies from 2013 to 2015.

Which future Hall of Fame pitcher did the Phillies trade away in 1966, before his six straight 20-win seasons?

Fergie Jenkins went to the Cubs for two veteran pitchers, then became the first Canadian to win a Cy Young Award, in 1971.

Which catcher, later a long-serving network broadcaster, became Steve Carlton's personal catcher on the 1970s Phillies?

Tim McCarver lasted long enough to play in four decades, coming back for a few games in September 1980.

Which American League champion beat the Phillies in five games in 1915, the franchise's first trip to the World Series?

The Boston Red Sox lost the opener and then swept the rest, with the sitting US president in the stands for Game 2, a first for any World Series.

Which ballpark, later renamed Connie Mack Stadium, became the Phillies' home when they left the Baker Bowl in 1938?

Shibe Park had housed the Athletics since 1909; trucks hauled the Phillies' equipment over after a loss on June 30, 1938.

What nickname stuck to Carlos Ruiz, the Phillies catcher behind the plate for four no-hitters?

Chooch grew out of a Panamanian curse word Ruiz kept muttering under his breath; a teammate started calling him by it and the name stuck.

Hall of Fame Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning later served two terms as a United States senator from which state?

Kentucky first sent Bunning to the House of Representatives in 1987, and he sat in the Senate from 1999 to 2011.

Whose tenth-inning homer on the final day of 1950 won the Whiz Kids the pennant and a Hemingway mention?

Dick Sisler hit it while his Hall of Fame father, George, was scouting for the losing side; The Old Man and the Sea later named him.

Which rare feat, unseen in the National League since 1927, did Phillies infielder Mickey Morandini pull off in 1992?

The unassisted triple play made Morandini the first second baseman to turn one in the regular season; the only earlier one came in the 1920 World Series.

Which Pennsylvania city has been home to the Phillies' Double-A affiliate, known as the Fightin Phils, since 1967?

Reading's club spent its first decades as the Reading Phillies, and the big-league team bought it outright in 2008.

Which veteran pinch-hitter launched a go-ahead eighth-inning home run off Jonathan Broxton in Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS?

Matt Stairs made a career of it: he retired with 23 pinch-hit home runs, the most in major-league history.

Which Phillies slugger spiked his bat after a three-run homer off Spencer Strider in Game 3 of the 2022 Division Series?

Rhys Hoskins had been 1-for-19 that postseason, and the opposing manager had just ordered an intentional walk to pitch to him.

Which Phillies right fielder hit the first home run at Citizens Bank Park in 2004 and won the 2005 Home Run Derby?

Bobby Abreu hit 41 homers in that Derby in Detroit, 24 of them in a single round, both records at the time.

Which Phillies ace, signed as a free agent in December 2019, finished second in NL Cy Young voting in 2021 and 2024?

Zack Wheeler lost out to Corbin Burnes and then Chris Sale, after coming to Philadelphia on a five-year, $118 million deal.

Which Phillies catcher hit the first inside-the-park home run by a catcher in postseason history, in the 2022 NLDS?

J. T. Realmuto came over in a February 2019 trade and won a Gold Glove that first season, only the third Phillies catcher to earn one.

Closer Jhoan Durán came to the Phillies at the 2025 trade deadline from which American League club?

The Minnesota Twins took prospects Mick Abel and Eduardo Tait in return, and Durán saved 16 games for Philadelphia over the rest of that season.

Bryce Harper's eighth-inning homer in Game 5 of the 2022 NLCS sent the Phillies past which team to the World Series?

The San Diego Padres were ahead until Harper's two-run shot put the Phillies in front, and he was named series MVP after batting .400.

Which infielder, traded to the Phillies in August 2026, had won three straight batting titles with three teams?

Luis Arráez was the first player in major-league history to do it, and only the second in the modern era with a batting title in each league.

Which 1985 American League MVP became Phillies manager in April 2026 after starting the season as bench coach?

Don Mattingly inherited a club that had started 9–19 and steered it to a wild-card berth on the final day of the season.

Phillies left-hander Jesús Luzardo was the first major leaguer born in which South American country?

Peru had no big-league alumni before Luzardo, whom the Phillies acquired by trade in December 2024 and signed to a five-year extension in 2026.

Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm, the third overall pick in 2018, played college baseball for which school?

Wichita State was the only program to offer Bohm a scholarship, and he repaid it with three seasons as a Shocker.

Which Phillies outfielder, signed in December 2025, had been MVP of the 2023 ALCS for the champion Texas Rangers?

Adolis García drove in 15 runs in that ALCS alone, a record for a single postseason series.

Phillies backup catcher Garrett Stubbs has represented which country at the World Baseball Classic in 2023 and 2026?

Israel won its 2023 opener on Stubbs's two-run double in the eighth inning, and in 2026 he played alongside his brother CJ.

Which visiting team did the Phillies beat 4–1 in the first game at Veterans Stadium, on April 10, 1971?

The Montreal Expos' Boots Day made the stadium's first out, grounding back to winning pitcher Jim Bunning.

How did the ceremonial first ball arrive for the Phillies' first game at Veterans Stadium in April 1971?

Dropped from a helicopter hovering over the field, the ball landed in the mitt of Phillies back-up catcher Mike Ryan.

Which Phillies shortstop, later the club's manager, collected the first hit in Veterans Stadium history in 1971?

Larry Bowa came back to manage the Phillies from 2001, which made him the skipper for the stadium's farewell season in 2003.

Which Pittsburgh slugger hit the longest home run in Veterans Stadium history, in a 14–4 rout of the Phillies in 1971?

Willie Stargell's landing spot wore a yellow star with a black S until the stadium came down in 2004.

Which artificial surface covered the Veterans Stadium field from 1971 until a softer replacement arrived in 2001?

AstroTurf at the Vet had so many visible gaps and joins that the place was nicknamed the Field of Seams.

Which replica landmark, removed from its perch at Veterans Stadium, was reinstalled outside Citizens Bank Park in 2019?

The Liberty Bell replica sat in storage for 15 years after the old stadium came down, then went up beside the third-base entrance.

By which method did Philadelphia demolish Veterans Stadium in March 2004, months after the Phillies' final game there?

Implosion took just 62 seconds, with the Phillie Phanatic pressing a ceremonial plunger that set off nothing at all.

Both nine-inning no-hitters pitched at Veterans Stadium, in 1990 and 2003, came against which visiting team?

The Giants went hitless against Terry Mulholland, their own former pitcher, in 1990 and against Kevin Millwood in 2003, on the Phillie Phanatic's birthday.

What did Vietnam veteran Tom Garvey secretly do under the stands at Veterans Stadium from 1979 into 1981?

Garvey lived there for about two years, in a hidden space under the seats that only 25 to 30 people knew about.

Which pitcher, acquired at the 2023 trade deadline, threw a no-hitter in his first home start for the Phillies?

Michael Lorenzen did it with his mother, wife and daughter in the stands, and the Vans he wore were sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.