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With more than 6 million people in the region, Phila-delphia is a teeming metropolis. But for the past decade, the Phillies have been a small-market team in nearly every sense of the word. Team revenues, payroll, wins and attendance were all down with the likes of Kansas City, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. For 10 years, there were no postseason games, just one second-place finish in the NL East, and only occasionally a token All-Star to liven up the roster.
Not only was Veterans Stadium an aesthetically miserable place to play, a terrible lease situation with the city of Philadelphia made it impossible for the Phillies to compete economically with similar markets such as Houston, Chicago and San Francisco.See the full content of this document
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Phillies Have New Stadium, Great Expectations
Those days of mediocrity, however, are now about as much rubble as the now-imploded Vet. Thanks to sparkling new Citizens Bank Park, located in the same south Philadelphia sports complex as Lincoln Financial Field and Wa...
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