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:

    “All the oxygen of the world was in them.
    All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
    All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
    All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Nights, I squat in the cornucopia
    Of your left ear, out of the wind,

    Counting the red stars and those of plum-color.
    The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)