Sport: Quaker Uprising

Last weekend the Philadelphia Phillies came home to Shibe Park after a seven-day road trip. In the first of a four-game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home.

Philadelphia fans, who have set a record for staying away from their home park in large numbers, now have good reason to want to flock inside. For the...

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