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The Philadelphia Phillies based in Philadelphia, PA are members of Major League Baseball’s National League East Division. They have played all their home games at Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section since 2004. They are tied with the San Francisco Giants as the 5th-oldest team in the major league; they’re behind the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Their name is a shortened version of the “Philadelphias;” it was the standard to call the team by their home city at the time. Their nicknames are “the Fightins’” or “the Phils.” It’s standard in Phillies culture to substitute the letter “F” with “Ph” in words or names.

The Phillies were established in Philadelphia in 1883; they were then known as the Philadelphia Quakers; the names “Quakers” and “Phillies” (which was a homage to their home town) would coexist until 1889. They tried to change their name to the Philadelphia Blue Jays in 1943; that only lasted for 2 years, though. At the start of the 1900s, they were in the Baker Bowl and after a lot of fighting to get out of their lease and the decrepit stadium, they moved to Connie Mack Stadium (then known as Shibe Park) in 1938. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics until they moved to Kansas City, MO in 1954 and later to Oakland, CA to become the Oakland Athletics. They have numerous celebrity fans, like US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito; actors Kevin Bacon, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Cosby, Tina Fey, Jamie Kennedy and Will Smith; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’s band leader Kevin Eubanks; musicians Art Garfunkel, Daryl Hall and John Oates of Hall & Oates, Beanie Sigel and Tim McGraw, country singer and son of former Phillies relief pitcher, Tug McGraw; and actor/director Rob Reiner, to name just a few.

A Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States and a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League, The Philadelphia Phillies have played their home games at Citizens Bank Park in the South Philadelphia section of the city from 2004 to the present and are the fifth-oldest team in the majors. Their name "Phillies" is a shortened version of the "Philadelphias", as the convention at the time was to call the team by their home city and are nicknamed the Fightin' Phils or simply the Fightin's. Thanks to the pitching of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the batting prowess of Gavvy Cravath, the Phillies won their first pennant in 1915 who set the major-league single-season record for home runs with 24. In 1943 the team rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in 5 years, thanks to their owner, Cox. The Phillies hoped to a new beginning with the opening of the new Veterans Stadium in 1971, but they were the worst team in baseball in 1972. The Phillies won their first and only world championship in 1980 World Series and two years later, they would win another pennant, but lost the 1983 World Series to Baltimore in 5 games. Overcoming the New York Mets who led the division for most of the season, on the season's last day on September 30, 2007, the Phillies won the NL East Division for the first time since 1993. They are the first team in the four major sports to surpass 10,000 losses in franchise history in 2007, due to the age of the club.