Phillies Pitcher Roy Halladay, otherwise known as ‘Doc Halladay’, traded to the Phillies this year, may just may be Charlie Manuel’s answered prayer. Before coming to the Phillies, Halladay spent the first 12 seasons of his career as a Toronto Blue Jay. He immediately garnered the attention of the league on September 20th, 1998,...
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Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel | illustration (2009) © Megan Lawlor
The Holy Family Boxing Club of Belfast, North Ireland in front of the "Rocky" statue on the steps of Philadelphia Art Museum. The Club includes Ryan Burnett, Anthonly Upton, Sonny Upton, James Upton, Niall Rooney, Christian Griffith, Seamus McCall, Paul Upton, James Ferrin and Ciaran "Coco" McCauley. | photo © Tom Keenan
Breakfast with the Champ… By Sabina Clarke I’m sitting before Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion of the world while he finishes a bowl of cereal. He is casual, warm and welcoming and greets me like an old friend. We’ve met before but I doubt if he remembers. It was in 1992 at the...
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by Ronnie Norpel Hope springs eternally green, and here we are kicking off another Phillies season—having lifted a curse? In early March, I stopped by a snowy Citizens Bank Park to congratulate my new old friend, the Phillie Phanatic. New, because Tom Burgoyne and I had never met in all those years, yet old,...
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