Philadelphia Phillies: 25 Most Spellbinding Teams in Franchise History

You don’t have to be a fan of baseball to know what a spellbinding team is. Sports fans around the world know what it means to fall in love with their team; to feel as though the players on the field are an extension of themselves.

When the team wins, you feel jubilation. When the team loses, you get that bitter taste of defeat. When your team, that you’ve followed through thick and thin, wins it all, the feeling is of pure ecstasy.

Fans of the Philadelphia Phillies know that range of emotions quite well, because you don’t reach 10,000 losses without having to endure the lowest of lows. The Phillies have had their share of losing seasons, and the fan base slept, dormant until the franchise returned to it’s winning ways.

Now that it has, there is no doubt that the city of Philadelphia is a baseball town, and there are few things that fans of the Phillies wouldn’t do to support their teams.

So the question must be asked: Which teams in the history of this franchise were the clubs that we simply couldn’t do without? This isn’t a slideshow ranking the greatest teams, but instead, the clubs that had the will to win, a storybook finish, or the teams that we couldn’t pry our eyes away from.

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