With tourism season underway, the Phillies will be joining the Independence Visitor Center in hosting a free "Celebrate Tourism Event" - for visitors and fans alike - on Tuesday, May 28, from 11 a.m. until noon.
Phillies welcome the Reds to town! Features Irish Heritage & youth softball celebrations, Wistar Institute Melanoma Awareness Day & book signing with Dallas Green.
Nearly 7,000 fans came out to Citizens Bank Park to help raise a grand total of $860,731 to help strike out ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Since the Phillies adopted ALS as their primary charity in 1984, they have raised over $14.3 million for the fight against the disease, an always-fatal, progressive neuromuscular disorder.
"Roy had successful shoulder surgery yesterday. He had an arthroscopic evaluation and underwent debridement of his labrum and rotator cuff as well as removal of an inflamed bursa.
Second baseman Cesar Hernandez of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs is the Phillies Minor League Player of the Month for April. Pitching honors go to left-hander Jesse Biddle of the Reading Fightin Phils.
That's why fans are urged to tune into a half-hour special of the Phillies' WB Mason Behind the Pinstripes show, simulcast live on PHL17 and phillies.com, on Sunday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
PHILADELPHIA - April 15, 2013 - Baseball fans from the Delaware Valley and beyond will have the opportunity to take swings from home plate at the 16th Annual Richie Ashburn Memorial Home Runs for Heart on May 6 and 7 (8:00a-4:30p), making them the first amateur sluggers to take a spot on the soil of since last season. The American Heart Association event was designed to give ordinary citizens the chance to live out their major league dreams. It made its debut in 1997, after the sudden passing of Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn, who succumbed to heart disease. In addition, the event also honors longtime Phillies announcer Harry Kalas, who also died of heart disease in 2009.
