Exterior of Veterans Stadium (Doug Pensinger /Allsport)
It is hard to believe, but the Philadelphia Phillies are already in their 18th season of Citizens Bank Park. Before that, however, they called Veterans Stadium home for more than three decades.
To date, the Phillies have won one World Series championship in each venue — 1980 and 2008.
The first Phillies game at Veterans Stadium was played exactly 50 years ago.
Saturday represents the milestone half-century mark since the Phillies played their first game at The Vet. Led by second-year manager Frank Lucchesi, the Phillies defeated the now-defunct Montreal Expos, 4-1 — with future Hall of Famer Jim Bunning earning the win after allowing only one run through 7 1/3 innings.