“Old-guy baseball players from Philly” are taking over Chase Field in Phoenix.
The Baseball BBQ Forkballers are going for a three-peat as World Series champs of the Men's Senior Baseball League. They're playing for the championship this week in Phoenix - and rooting for the Phillies, of course. The team hopes to turn Chase Field into "Citizens Bank Park West."For 16 Phillies fans, the stars aligned when it became clear that their team would play the Arizona Diamondbacks for the National League Championship Series.
The Forkballers have a Harvard-educated lawyer, entrepreneurs, a sitting judge, a detective, a software engineer and more on their roster. But for a week, they’re all ballplayers, living a dream, playing at spring training complexes and talking baseball nonstop.There’s a lot of baseball — eight games in a week — but also a lot of downtime in between.
“It was a lot of years of chasing the ring and coming up short,” said Downes, a Philadelphia lawyer who’s 48. “I suffered through the days of Steve Jeltz as the starting shortstop,” Binder said of the lifetime .210 hitter who hit five career home runs and played for the Phils from 1983 to 1989. “He symbolizes the futility of those mid-1980s teams.”“It’s unbelievable to watch them,” said Binder. “And these fans are so smart — we get a bad rap sometimes, but Philly fans are so passionate, like nothing else.
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