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Phillies 1972: My First Team

I’d only been to one Phillies games prior to the 1972 season. It was on April 10th, 1971, that first game ever played at Veterans Stadium. By this time I had been playing little league for a couple of years, and I was beginning to take an interest in the local pro and college sports teams.

I wasn’t hooked on baseball yet, but I do clearly remember 3rd baseman Don Money hitting the first home run at the Vet, and Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning as the starting and winning pitcher in that historic first game on home Astroturf.