Today's quiz: name the six statues built at Citizens Bank Park.
Answer: Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Harry Kalas and Connie Mack.
More Citizen Bank Park facts-
- Built for $345 million. Citizens Bank purchased the naming rights for $96 million over 25 years.
- Built with a seating capacity of 43,500.
- First regular season game was April 12, 2004 against the Cincinnati Reds.
- Before the first game, with bi-leveled bullpens, the Phillies pen was originally on top. They decided to switch and allow the visiting teams' bullpen on top. Better to hear the sometimes verbal Philly fans.
- After the 2005 season, with home runs, especially to left field, flying out of the new park, the Phillies raised the left field fence two and a half feet and removed the first two rows of seats to push the fence back an additional five feet.
- Ryan Howard hit the longest home run in Citizens Bank Park history ( although Giancarlos Stanton can lay claim to that feat as well, with a few titanic shots onto Ashburn Alley). Howard hit one on June 27, 2007 off Aaron Harang that went an estimated 505 feet onto Ashburn Alley in left-center field.
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