The Sanatoga Post

Two former Lower Pottsgrove commissioners, and professed fans of local baseball, want to ensure foul balls stay within easy reach at Sanatoga Park.

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PHILADELPHIA PA – As the Philadelphia Phillies’ baseball team returns today (Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009) to Citizens Bank Park to face the New York Yankees in Game Four of the 2009 World Series, a Temple University journalism professor claims more and more viewers are relying on their computers, and not television, to enjoy the games. [...]

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PHILADELPHIA PA – Two men of substantial cloth – the archbishops of the Roman Catholic archdioceses of Philadelphia and New York, respectively – have bet against each other on the outcome of baseball’s World Series. Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali and New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan placed a friendly wager on the series’ outcome, according to [...]

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WORLD SERIES’ REIGNING CHAMPS WIN NLCS – The Philadelphia Phillies baseball team defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 Wednesday night (Oct. 21, 2009) in Philadelphia to win the National League Championship Series and the chance to become World Series champions for a second consecutive year. Among people delighted by the win surely were students at [...]

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SANATOGA PA – The sounds from the baseball fields early Wednesday evening (May 27, 2009) at Gerald Richards Park, Buchert Road, were not much different than those of other Wednesdays in recent weeks: kids hollering, parents cheering, the chug-chug-chug of motorized pitching machines and, to some coaches’ agony, only an occasional crack of the bat. [...]

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NEWTOWN SQUARE PA – A year ago this month – long before anyone had any inkling that the Philadelphia Phillies would be baseball’s World Champions in 2008 – the team’s veteran announcer, Harry Kalas, stood in line with the rest of a lunch-time crowd at the McDonald’s Restaurant on West Chester Pike. One or two [...]

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A 28-year pennant drought ended Wednesday night (Oct. 29, 2008), as the Philadelphia Phillies won baseball’s World Series at home in Citizens Bank Park against the Tampa Bay Rays. The final score in Game 5, suspended Monday by rain and completed in nearly freezing temperatures, was 4-3. It was only the sixth time in their [...]

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Talk about delayed gratification. The weather and baseball’s World Series in Philadelphia made history Monday night (Oct. 27, 2008). Game 5 was suspended in the sixth inning because of rain, with the Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays tied at 2. It was the first time a series games had been suspended; the Phillies were [...]

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The Tampa Bay Rays took a healthy lead in early innings of Thursday night’s (Oct. 23, 2008) second game of the baseball World Series at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg FL, while the opposing Philadelphia Phillies squandered opportunities to score. The Phillies made plenty of hits but left runners on base, and Tampa Bay won [...]

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The Philadelphia Phillies started hot last night (Oct. 23, 2008), winning the first game of the World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-2, in St. Petersburg FL. Aggressive base-running is being hailed as one of the keys to the game; the Phils stole bases repeatedly and kept the Rays off-balance. Which means Taco Time [...]

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