On June 22, 1976, in the North Philadelphia neighborhood known as Swampoodle, the bulldozers rolled in, but the old ballpark was already half gone. Since the Philadelphia Phillies had split half a decade earlier for their new South Philly home, Connie Mack Stadium had been picked apart, set ablaze, and abandoned to nature, creating a lingering headache for the city. The stadium’s final owner, Jerry Wolman, could afford neither the mortgage for the site nor the cost to tear it down, and the city itself was reluctant to step in and foot the bill for demolition.
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