HUDSON COUNTY — While this is Yankee and Mets country, Hoboken also boasts a very ardent Phillies Club, and they’re written about this morning in the Philadelphia Inquirer (in the aftermath of the Phillies’ 8-6 win last night). They apparently have been drawing 200 people a night to the World Series telecasts at a bar in Hoboken.
The Inky reports:
“Sean Iaquinto likes to say that it’s the loudest gathering of Phils fans outside Citizens Bank Park.
“Iaquinto is the organizer of the Hoboken Phillies Club, which consists of Philadelphia and South Jersey natives who live in the North Jersey town and mostly work in New York City. During the regular season, they gather every Friday at Mulligan’s, a local watering hole on First Street, to watch their Fightin’s. For the World Series, they’ve been drawing about 200.
It’s a comfort in a town full of Giants, Yankees, and Mets fans, said Iaquinto, 37.
“We’re this little oasis – kind of like an embassy. When you walk into this bar, it’s like you’re walking onto Philadelphia soil,” he says.”
The story explains that the group started two years ago after the Hoboken Eagles Club.
You can find the Phillies Club HERE on Facebook.
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