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The nickname "Phillies" first appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on April 3, 1883, in the paper's coverage of an exhibition game by the new National League club and was the team's accepted nickname from the start. This name is one of the longest continually used nicknames in professional sports by a team in the same city.
When the National League rights to Philadelphia were acquired late in 1882, and with the Philadelphia Athletics still operating, the new team assumed the Phillies nickname. The Phillies played their first game on April 2, 1883, when they defeated the amateur Manayunk Ashlands by the score of 11–0 at Recreation Park.
The Answerbacks - A reference to the 2023 team that went on to win the National League Pennant after the Diamondbacks fell to a 2-0 and 3-2 series deficit to the Phillies in the 2023 National League Championship Series only for Arizona to rally back to win the series with a Game 4 comeback at home and two consecutive road wins in Philadelphia ...
This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]
This is a summary of the evolution of names of the current professional Major League Baseball teams in the National League (organized 1876) and subsequent rival American League (established 1901), and also of selected former major and minor league teams whose names were influential, long-lasting, or both.
The Whiz Kids is the nickname of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. [1] The team had a number of young players: the average age of a member of the Whiz Kids was 26.4. [ 2 ] The team won the 1950 National League pennant but failed to win the World Series .
The Phillies also honor two additional players with the letter "P" in the manner of a retired number: Alexander played before numbers were used in the major leagues; and Klein wore a variety of numbers in his Phillies career. [7] Forty Phillies players have been elected to the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame.
After leaving the Phillies, he asked to be called "Dick", saying Richie was a little boy's name. In his dual career as an R&B singer, the label on his records with the Groovy Grooves firm slated him as "Rich" Allen. [11] Some Phillies fans, known for being tough on hometown players even in the best of times, exacerbated Allen's problems.