The excessive show of force was, fortunately, more show and less force as Phillies fans abided and rejoiced peacefully. Willie Stargell's Pivotal Season: 1971 - Society for American Baseball It all came together in 1980, when the Phillies won their first world title in their 98-year history; Schmidt bashed a career-high 48 homers, Carlton won 24 games and became the last pitcher to date to log over 300 innings in a regular season, Rose led the NL with 42 doubles, Maddox earned a Gold Glove in center, and McGraw saved 20 games with a sterling 1.46 ERA. 10/2/79: Willie Stargell's three-run home run in the top of the 11th gives the Pirates a 5-2 lead over the Reds in Game 1 of the NLCSCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB content: http://youtube.com/MLB About MLB.com:Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball's internet operations into an independent technology company. The Sporting News took note of the Vets coordinated geometry and concluded that the venue is the model stadium if a mathematician became baseball commissioner.. Stargell blasts longest home run in Olympic Stadium history He later explained: Octo is Latin for numeral eight. And surrounding the bell, initially, were a charming pair of mascots in Phil and Phyllis, two animatronic figures dressed in colonial garb that could have been confused as rejects from Its a Small World. He hit the longest home run ever at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium into the upper deck in right field. Veterans Stadium - Clio It was a ballpark ahead of its time when built and well behind the times when abandoned 40 years later, by then a ridiculed dump given a slough of unpleasant names. Pittsburgh Pirates. It was here that the true Veterans Stadium began to take shape, with an outer contour that was neither rectangular nor circularbut something in between. The only other two players who have hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium since 1973, Mark McGwire and Mike Piazza. Others came close (Thome missed it by a few feet), but no-one ever went further at the Vet than Willie Stargell did on June 25th, 1971. To the latter point, the city neared bankruptcy in 1990 and it was rumored that the Phillies would buy out the Vet.