the phillies played at lackawanna county stadium before veterans stadium.
where did the phillies play before veterans stadium?
lackawanna county stadium
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the 1970 philadelphia phillies season was the 88th season for the franchise in philadelphia. the phillies finished in fifth place in the national league east with a record of 73–88, 15 games behind the pittsburgh pirates. the phillies were playing their final season of home games at connie mack stadium, before moving into their new facility, veterans stadium, at the start of the following season.





























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1970 philadelphia phillies season
the phillies were the only team in the national league to post a winning record against the world series champs, going 10-8 with a 7-2 mark at veterans stadium. the high point of the season for the phillies was the three-game sweep of the mets in mid-september. on september 12, up by 22 games, the mets needed to win one game to clinch the division and came to philadelphia for a weekend series. the phillies won all three games, finishing the weekend by beating the mets 6-0 behind a six-hit shutout by kevin gross who also tripled home two runs. the sweep still left the phillies down 19 games but was both especially satisfying given the significant number of mets fans who had traveled to veterans stadium for the weekend hoping to see the mets clinch, and necessary because they were swept in a three-game series in chicago preceding this series and did not want to see a visiting team's division-title celebration at veterans stadium. had the mets won one of the three games, it would have been the first time that a division title was won at veterans stadium. during the series, mets fans at veterans stadium became unruly and damaged seats in the upper deck. one mets fan was arrested after striking at two philadelphia police officers.
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