BOSTON — Growing up less than 10 miles from Yankee Stadium in Teaneck, ESPN Radio MLB broadcaster Doug Glanville rooted for the Phillies as a kid because his older brother was a Phillies fan. He was 10 when they won the World Series in 1980.

After Glanville took his Ivy League smarts to the University of Pennsylvania and wrote a 120-page senior engineering thesis on the feasibility of the Phillies leaving South Philadelphia for a new ballpark in West Philly, his budding career as a major-league outfielder with the Chicago Cubs took an exciting twist with a 1997 offseason trade to the Phillies.

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