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)

    “While the stars that oversprinkle
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle
    With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)