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Last weekend the Philadelphia Phillies came home to Shibe Park after a seven-day road trip. In the first of a four-game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...
...approach to the angleshooting game of club ownership is paying dividends. The box office reports that in 28 home games this year the Phillies have drawn 253,000 fans to Shibe Park - 61,000 more than the total for all 74 home games last year...
...with "headquarters under my hat," had walked the streets unnoticed. Now, the arrival of his 14-car special train was the signal for Philadelphia to blow its top, for thousands to batter at police lines just to get a look at him. At night, before 30,000 people in Shibe Park, he again attacked New Deal management of National Defense, charged bluntly...
...stick had been pitched at him. In Homestead, Pa., police confiscated an unknown quantity of tomatoes and apple cores from some twelve-year-old politicians; in Philadelphia, one Israel Kirby, 65-who happens to have been born in Rushville, Ind.-was arrested with a dozen eggs at a Shibe Park Willkie speech; had to prove they were eating, not throwing eggs...
...double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics, 23-to-2 and 10-to-0; in which they set two new major-league records (eight homeruns in one game and 13 homeruns in two successive games) and a new American League record (a total of 53 bases in one game); at Shibe Park, Philadelphia...