KBT84280

Wife, Mom, Mimi, stroke survivor, faith, family, & country first Loves JRTs, the GSL, the ADKS, The Phillies⚾, The Birds🦅, BDA vacations, & the USA 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

A true baseball legend! RIP, Mr. Giles.

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

Bill Giles, Phillies chairman emeritus and long-time club executive, passed away at his home in Gladwyne, Pa., this afternoon. He was 92 years old.

Known for his immense contributions to the Phillies, City of Philadelphia and Major League Baseball, Giles began his Phillies career in 1969 as vice president, business operations, and was promoted to executive vice president three years later. In 1981, he organized a group that purchased the club, serving as president until 1997 and then chairman before being named chairman emeritus in 2015.

Giles was instrumental in opening Veterans Stadium, and later Citizens Bank Park, drawing fans with clever marketing ideas, including the creation of the legendary Phillie Phanatic. He expertly balanced the business and baseball needs of the club, which won two National League East titles and National League pennants during his time as president.

As one of Philadelphia’s more civically involved citizens, Giles served on several boards for various organizations, some of which included the Philadelphia Convention and Tourism Bureau, Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia Sports Congress, Police Athletic League and Salvation Army. He was also a past president of the Boy Scouts of America and Corporate Alliance for Drug Education.

Giles, the son of former National League president Warren C. Giles, was named honorary president of the NL in 2001 and was a recipient of the Bud Selig Executive Leadership Award for lifetime achievement in baseball in 2010. He was part of a council that expanded the league to 30 teams, incorporated interleague play and re-structured the playoff format with a wild card slot, among other significant contributions.

Born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1934, Giles began his baseball career as a teenager working various jobs in the Cincinnati Reds’ public relations department. He went on to advance his career in Houston, serving as traveling secretary, publicity director and promotions director before joining the Phillies following the 1969 season.

Reflecting on his life in the game, Giles authored the book Pouring Six Beers at a Time: And Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball and co-authored another on the business of baseball, titled Bill Giles and Baseball. In 1999, the Phillies established the Bill Giles Award to honor minor league players who share the same attributes as the namesake: a love and respect for the game of baseball, an outstanding work ethic and pride in being a member of the Phillies organization.

Giles was preceded in death by his wife, Nancy, and is survived by his three sons, Michael, Joseph and Christopher, and eight grandchildren, Lowell, Will, Caroline, Dana, Molly, Max, Eliza and Warren.

Details on funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@Phillies Rest in peace, Mr. Giles.
I'm lucky to have met him on a few occasions & what a gentleman he was. His love of the fans & the game of baseball was palpable. It's so disappointing that the Phillies organization didn't put him on the WOF before he passed. It's really unforgivable.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@MeghanMcCain Soulless.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

RIP Dolly.

[Janice Dean @JaniceDean]

I have PTSD. We went through hell and these evil men got away with everything.

[Sara A. Carter @SaraCarterDC]

Hahaha 😂
I bet he couldn’t wait to write about it 👇

[Rachel Campos-Duffy @RCamposDuffy]

Amen to this!
Thank you for speaking for millions of moms @JanCBS 🇺🇸❤️

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@WWG1WGA_QQ Iran with a nuclear weapon or $6.00 gas. I'll make the sacrifice with $6.00 gas. Schumer is as dumb as a box of rocks!

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

Of course the dems didn't show up! They couldn't care less about the American people being defrauded. They're the ones doing it! Remember in November!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate is holding an anti-taxpayer fraud meeting right now with Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe...

...and stunning new footage shows EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT SEAT is *empty*

100% of Democrats on the committee were invited, 0% SHOWED UP.

The Party of Fraud. They know about the fraud and are complicit!

FOX: "We have a shot of the empty seats, all the way to the right. Empty seats where DEMOCRATS would be sitting. Dems don't care about defrauding the American people?!" 🤯

@RandPaul @nickshirleyy @JamesOKeefeIII

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@SUBRATA30016572 🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇺🇲

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

"The hometown cooking is real"
Welcome to CBP!

[SPORTSRADIO 94WIP @SportsRadioWIP]

Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber after the Home Run Derby: “

All the guys were walking up for when they were introduced and like, ‘Man, the home town cooking’s real here.’ And I was like yeah it is. This is Philadelphia.”

(Via @MrUram)

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@ginamilan_ @Daytobehappy She is such a 🤡

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

Love this guy! He is such a class act!

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

From Schwarbs to the best fans in baseball ❤️

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@JesusSavesUs777 I have no questions; I have faith. I only hope to hear, "welcome, we've been waiting for you."

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@johnrobertsFox @Vizzpat @SenSchumer He's not fit to shine Sen. Graham's shoes.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@SUBRATA30016572 @Yolo304741

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

Thank you, @SecRubio .

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. 

He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.

Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@GovernorShapiro @GovernorShapiro it's time to call our country what the founding fathers brought forth, & that is a constitutional republic. Now that you've had your photo op, please go back to work & try to better the lives of all Pennsylvanians like our senators are trying to do.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@Milajoy Either way the country wins! Both are incredible public servants and both only want what's best for the American people.

[KBT84280 @KBTO3172]

@BarronTNews_ What happened to "nobody is above the law"? I pray she is never allowed to take the bench ever again.