Maybe Phillies Fans Can Save Where Ashburn is Buried?

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Can Phillies fans save where Whitey rests in Gladwyne? What am I talking about? Well read on....So, here I am reading about how Septa screwed up the parade experience for many, including people I know who stood for HOURS at Ardmore and Wayne R5 stations respectively with their kids and watched trains full of other people go by....yep, if Septa had staggered the trains making some locals, some limiteds and some expresses, but what happened is the people along the farthest western edges of the R5 got to go the parade, while most of those closer in...well...they got screwed.

Then I was reading how fans are visiting the graves of Phillies past like Richie Ashburn and I thought well if people knew the Oddfellows and church where Asburn is buried is at risk, well then maybe something could be done to save it? Does the Asburn family know about this? Do they care? Do Phillies fans know about this? Will they care?
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Well, it's true: Oddfellows where Richie is buried is at risk. Check out the Lower Merion Conservancy website and watch list

So fans, save where Richie sleeps. It's pretty much that simple...

At cemeteries, victory signs for departed Phillies fans
By MORGAN ZALOT
Philadelphia Daily News
215-854-5202

Richie Ashburn's rust-colored headstone stands out among the others in a small sea of graves behind the Gladwyne United Methodist Church.
A Phillies rally towel lies on the grass in front of the grave with a note to Ashburn, the Phillies centerfielder and broadcaster who died in 1997.

"I know you are cheering with us, Whitey," the note, scrawled on the towel in black permanent marker, reads. "I saved you a towel. With love, JF."

In the wake of the Phillies' World Series victory, family members and friends of deceased fans have visited their graves to place memorabilia.

And as for Chase Utley and his potty mouth?. It's not funny any longer...it's just tacky. Dude wants to be a socialite then dude needs to pontificate like one - and that means leaving the F bombs and four letter words off the air.