Matt Breen
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Writing sports features for @PhillyInquirer. Philadelphia native. Temple and Archbishop Ryan grad.
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Dick Allen’s daughter Terri was murdered in 1991. His biggest fan would have loved his Hall of Fame induction. “She was the kind of person that you didn’t forget.”
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Terri Allen was a huge part of her father's life before hers was cut short at just 27 years old. “She was the kind of person that you didn’t forget,” Philly columnist Tom Moore said.
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RT @PhillyInquirer: Matt Strahm donated a scoreboard to a baseball team for adults with functional needs. They gave him much more. https://….
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The Angels of Newtown Square play in the Little League Challenger Division. Strahm makes it a point to see their games. "It just captures you. And you want to be a part of it," Strahm said.
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Matt Strahm donated a scoreboard on Sunday night to The Angels, a Newtown Square baseball team for adults with functional needs. They’ve given him much more. “I love just going there and watching them play baseball. It’s pure.”
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The Angels of Newtown Square play in the Little League Challenger Division. Strahm makes it a point to see their games. "It just captures you. And you want to be a part of it," Strahm said.
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RT @lochlahn: When Dick Allen was called up to the Phillies from triple-A Arkansas, he vowed never to go back to Little Rock. This April,….
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The 1963 season in Little Rock was brutal for Allen, and he never wanted to return. Five years after his father's death, Richard Allen Jr. did just that: “I was proud to be who I am."
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Pouring one out for the clock at Citizens Bank Park.
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The analog clock in center field has been replaced by an ad for next year's All-Star Game.
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RT @PhillyInquirer: ‘We’re not ready’: Not even 1976 compares to how special next summer will be in Philly sports, Dan Hilferty says https:….
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Comcast Spectacor CEO Dan Hilferty and Phillies owner John Middleton were fans during the bicentennial celebration in 1976. Fifty years later, they’ll again be at the center of the sports world.
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The 2026 All Star Game will be on July 14.
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RT @ByMattWeyrich: Orioles’ Ryan O’Hearn will be using this orange Victus bat in the All-Star Game tonight. It’s signed by the Newtown Edg….
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South Jersey's Logan Dawson grew up a diehard Phillies fan and he can't believe they drafted him. "Every kid who is a Phillies fan says ‘Ah I want to be a Phillie one day.' Well, it actually happened."
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The Phillies drafted Dawson, a shortstop for Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, in the 16th round of the MLB draft. "It’s just incredible," he said.
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I’ve never felt more lost than watching the Phillies without a strike zone and score bug.
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RT @TUMBBHoops: An incredible tribute to John DiSangro by @NBCSPhilly and @TMacPhils. Rest in peace, John. #Team130 .
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John DiSangro was so important to Temple that John Chaney’s longtime assistant said Chaney wouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame without DiSangro. He was just as vital every night to the Phillies telecasts. He had two great careers before dying this week.
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A trusted confidant of John Chaney as a longtime member of his Temple basketball staff, DiSangro later became a behind-the-scenes ace of the Phillies TV broadcast.
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They were some of Philly's most famous boxers. They were world champs, fought in stadiums, and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But they ended up buried in unmarked graves. John DiSanto is on a mission to change that and give them gravestones.
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Boxing historian John DiSanto has made it his cause to raise funds for gravestones to honor some of the best boxers in Philadelphia history. “I feel connected to them because of this project.”
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Jason Kelce is a regular at Mike’s Seafood in Sea Isle City and even has his own menu item. But his bond with the shore town restaurant is about more than football and buffalo shrimp.
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The Kelces are regulars at Mike Monichetti’s restaurant, but they have more than that in common. Now they both tap into the Shore town to aid the same cause. And for Monichetti, it’s personal.
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Russell Branyan at RFK Stadium in August of 2007. “What about Russell Branyan” - HK.
Phillies off night question: What’s the most random Phillies home run you remember vividly?.
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RT @PhillyInquirer: David McShane grew up in the 700 level. Now he paints murals of Philadelphia’s sports icons.
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McShane is the artist behind some of the city’s best-known murals, painting his sports heroes with the same passion he had as a kid watching his favorite Philly teams at Veterans Stadium.
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