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For years, I have waited for this moment: the Phillies and the Yankees going toe-to-toe in the World Series. Of course, I would have loved to actually still be wearing the uniform, but this is the next best thing.
I grew up a Phillies fan, wooed by the powder-blue road uniforms and a trio of Phillies legends: Garry Maddox, Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton. If I wasn’t imitating them in Wiffle ball, I was playing their cards in Strat-O-Matic baseball. I remember 1980 being a transformational year for me because the Phillies won the World Series. Now they’re not only in a position to win another, but to start the whisperings of a dynasty by doing it back to back.
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