Phillies Fan Creates Shrine to Baseball’s Most Unsung Players in Bathroom of His Hatboro Home

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Matt Edwards in his Relief Room
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Matt Edwards, a lifelong Phillies fan, has created a shrine to some of the most unsung players in baseball in his Hatboro home.

Matt Edwards, a lifelong Phillies fan, has created a shrine to some of the most unsung players in baseball in the downstairs bathroom of his Hatboro home, writes Tyler Kepner for The New York Times.

In the Relief Room, as he calls it, Edwards made space for usually otherwise ignored players.

“Celebrating the little guy that nobody remembers is more memorable than talking about the stars, because everybody knows about them,” said Edwards.

He considers it his mission to tell the stories of any player who has relief pitched for the Phillies, even if it happened only once. The English major at the University of New Hampshire reads widely about his subjects, finding fun facts on each of them and organizing them by date on his computer.

He also fires off several tweets a day to his modest group of followers.

In addition to the many trading cards, the Relief Room features a bar of soap depicting Sparky Lyle, the commemorative Ron Reed soda can, and a cabinet handle that was the barrel of a Don Carman broken-bat, among many other interesting items.

Read more about Matt Edwards’ Hatboro Relief Room in The New York Times.

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