The Phillies once had an 11-year old boy thrown in jail for a night because he kept a foul ball.
Losing Proposition: How a foul ball and an 11-year-old kid still define our feelings about Phillies management 85 years later. [Philadelphia Weekly]

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Phils hurled insults at the ‘noble experiment’ [Inquirer]

“I have to admit that this day,” Robinson wrote in 1972 of his first encounter with the [Philadelphia Phillies] - April 22, 1947 - “of all the unpleasant days of my life brought me nearer to cracking up than I have ever been. For one wild and rage-crazed […]

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