Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League East Division and have played their home games at Citizens Bank Park, in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, since 2004. The National League approved the franchise at its meeting in Providence on December 7, 1882, and the club began play in 1883; it has been known as the Phillies continuously since its founding. The team has won two World Series, against the Kansas City Royals in 1980 and the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008, and eight National League pennants, the first in 1915. Its longevity made it the first American sports franchise to lose more than 10,000 games, yet it has also won more than 10,000. Thirty-three Phillies players have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and third baseman Mike Schmidt is widely considered the franchise's greatest player.