What's A Philadelphia Phillie?
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....(I prefer Dutch Masters)
THE HITMAN
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Lawrence & Devil both beat me !
i thought a phillie was a female horse?
Lawrence
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looks like we were wrong:
No one could have realized it at the time, but when the Phillies were formed in 1883, history was in the making. Now, as the 21st century begins, the Phillies are the oldest, continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional sports.
The original Phillies began when the Worcester Ruby Legs were disbanded and the franchise was moved by the National League to Philadelphia. Al Reach, who in 1866 had become the first professional baseball player and was later a successful sporting goods dealer, became the Phillies first owner along with attorney John Rogers. Reach named the team the Phillies, a take-off on the team's geographic roots, "Philly."
No one could have realized it at the time, but when the Phillies were formed in 1883, history was in the making. Now, as the 21st century begins, the Phillies are the oldest, continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional sports.
The original Phillies began when the Worcester Ruby Legs were disbanded and the franchise was moved by the National League to Philadelphia. Al Reach, who in 1866 had become the first professional baseball player and was later a successful sporting goods dealer, became the Phillies first owner along with attorney John Rogers. Reach named the team the Phillies, a take-off on the team's geographic roots, "Philly."
jimmythegreek
The opening odds start here
ZZ CREAM said:
Because the fat lady lost her voice at the Keno table
ZZ CREAM said:
[FONT=Courier, Times New Roman]On Jan. 15, 1988, Rather himself aired video shot that afternoon at Duke Zeibert's restaurant in Washington, D.C., featuring Snyder explaining why he thought African-Americans excelled in sports. [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier, Times New Roman]"The black is the better athlete," The Greek said. "And he practices to be the better athlete, and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes way back to the slave period. The slave owner would breed this big black with this big black woman so he could have a big black kid. That's where it all started." [/FONT]
They just choked again...
The Devil
EOG Master
ZZ, Pete Axthelm was a good friend of my partners and then we became friends....went to Gulfstream a few times with him....he loved his Dolphins....he actually wrote a story about us in Newsweek magazine (I think in 81) titled the summer of a bookmakers discontent.....a story about two bookies with nothing to do because of the baseball strike.....he was a good guy but cancer got him much too early.....
Bettor days
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A philadelphia Philly is a bitch that boos santa claus...