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)

    “Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)