It must be a wild time in Philadelphia. The Phillies are in the World Series! When they win, it's hard to imagine the celebration for this much loved team unless you have witnessed it. If all goes well, and they take the Championship, the Team will be escorted for parts of Broad Street, the City's main thoroughfare that runs North and South from the Navy Yard to the county line.
Fans pack the sidewalk. Streets are closed. The Team rides a flat bed truck amid confetti, thrown kisses, babies held in the air, as the Mummers Band plays "Oh Dem Golden Slippers," and people break the police lines and strut down the street.
I don't know if Philadelphia holds a candle to St. Louis' designation as a sports town, but I do know that if the Cards come into their own, there ought to be a parade. It should run from the Stadium, up Olive until it becomes Lindell Boulevard and come to Forest Park. Oh yes, and everybody ought to learn the Mummer's Strut. All this, from one who is less than a sports authority, but does do a mean Mummer's Strut.
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