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Citizens Bank Park is a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the city's South Philadelphia Sports Complex.Home to Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, the stadium opened April 3, 2004, and hosted its first regular-season baseball game nine days later, with the Phillies losing to the Cincinnati Reds, 4–1.
The Steeles' French Renaissance design included a signature tower and cupola, 1909 Cartouches above the entrances along Lehigh Ave and 21st St framed the A's logo Bats, balls – even a catcher's mask – adorned exterior walls in terra cotta casts Shibe Park on March 13, 1909, one month prior to first game Fans watching the inaugural game, April 12, 1909.
Philadelphia's Baker Bowl proved to be a fertile hitting ground for Phillies opponents as well, and in 1930, the team surrendered 1199 runs, a major-league record still standing today. Once considered one of the finest parks in baseball, it was not well maintained from the 1910s onward.
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When sports teams in Philadelphia have postseason success, the fans find a unique way to celebrate by climbing light posts and poles in the city.
In 1959, Phillies owner R. R. M. Carpenter Jr. proposed building a new ballpark for the Philadelphia Phillies on 72 acres (290,000 m 2) adjacent to the Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Phillies' were playing at Connie Mack Stadium, a stadium built in 1909 that was beginning to show its age. Connie Mack Stadium also ...
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