Philadelphia Stars

Philadelphia Stars may refer to:

  • Philadelphia Stars (baseball), a baseball team in the Negro Leagues from 1933 to 1952
  • Philadelphia Stars (football), a football team in the USFL in 1983-84, after which they became the Baltimore Stars for their final season in 1985

Famous quotes containing the words philadelphia and/or stars:

    “I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “Then, that no region of the universe
    Should remain void of life, the floor of heaven
    Was peopled with the stars and godlike forms,
    The seas became the abode of glittering fish.
    Earth took the beasts and mobile air the birds.
    A holier animal was wanting.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)