He became the Phillies starting catcher in 1982, replacing Bob Boone who had been traded to the California Angels.

On August 21, 1982, he was purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the Phillies.

A later affiliation with the Philadelphia Phillies lasted from 1976 until 1982.

In July 1982, in a visit to Philadelphia, Clearwater city officials and the president of the Florida State League again asked the Philadelphia Phillies about affiliating with a team to be based in Clearwater.

He has also called games locally for the Phillies from 1980 to 1982, Mets from 1983 to 1998, Yankees from 1999 to 2001, and Giants in 2002.

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Porfirio Altamirano Ramírez ( born May 17, 1952 ), nicknamed " El Guajiro " is a former Major League Baseball right-handed middle relief pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1982 – 83 ) and Chicago Cubs ( 1984 ).

He made his debut on April 23, 1982, as a shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies.

As his career started, Franco was part of a 1982 five-for-one trade between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cleveland Indians.

Over the course of his 18-year career, he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1968 – 77 ), Texas Rangers ( 1978 – 81 ), Montreal Expos ( 1982 – 83 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1984 ), Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1985 ) and Toronto Blue Jays ( 1985 ).

WPHL was also a station heavy on local sports, as it aired contests featuring Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies until 1982, the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers from 1982 to the 1990s and the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers in the 1990s.

Throughout the station's first three decades of service, WPHL had a tremendous professional sports presence — at various points holding the broadcast rights to the Phillies ( 1971 – 82 and 1993 – 98, and returning from 2009-11 with the games produced by Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia ), the Flyers ( 1991 – 98 ) and the 76ers ( 1982 – 95 ), as well as covering local college basketball and football, with games featuring teams from the Philadelphia Big 5 ( LaSalle University, University of Pennsylvania, Saint Joseph's University, Villanova University and Temple University ).

On October 1, 2008, the Brewers traveled to Philadelphia to play the Philadelphia Phillies in Milwaukee's first post-season game since the 1982 World Series.

Krukow played Major League baseball for the Chicago Cubs ( 1976 – 1981 ), the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1982 ) and the San Francisco Giants ( 1983 – 1989 ).

Olney High School is also reputable for its many notable alumni such as Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Del Ennis ( 1942 ), comedy writer Barry S. Waronker ( 1965 ), local news reporter Sheila Washington ( 1982 ), and former Feltonville historian Dennis Dalbey ( 1994 ).

Wise was the last of that 1964 Philadelphia Phillies team to be active in the major leagues, pitching 2 innings of relief ( 7th & 8th innings ) against the Los Angeles Dodgers on 10 April 1982.

He later served as a coach for 13 seasons with the California Angels ( 1979 – 80 ; 1989 – 92 ), New York Mets ( 1981 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1982 – 84 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1985 – 86 ), and Chicago White Sox ( 1987 ).

He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1973 to 1974, the New York Mets from 1975 to 1976, the Montreal Expos from 1976 to 1978, and again for the Phillies from 1979 to 1982.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

" Boztepe also began training in Latosa Escrima, which Kernspecht's German Wing Tsun Organization had decided to make part of the family in 1982.

One of Kemp's more trying times as a congressman came in 1982 when Reagan decided to reverse the tax cuts and promote tax increases.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

The series was not a success and when Central Television were awarded the contract for the Midlands region from 1982, it was decided that Till Death ... was not to return.

When President Mitterrand decided, in 1982 – 1983, to change his economic policy in giving the priority at the struggle against inflation and for a hard currency, Jospin justified his choice in saying the Socialist power open just a " parenthesis ".

In 1982, TSR Hobbies decided to terminate Grenadier Miniatures's license and started producing its own AD & D miniatures line, followed by a line of toys, while licensing part of the AD & D toy line to LJN.

Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 1982 with no name, but decided on Tormentor in 1984.

The KNVB decided to ban the ' A ' from the shirt and it would take until 1982 for shirt advertising to be introduced.

After defeating James ' Bubba ' Busceme by sixth round stoppage, Argüello decided to move up in weight class time again, and on November 12, 1982, he tried to become the first world champion in 4 different categories, meeting the heavier and future Hall-of-Famer Aaron Pryor, in what was billed as The Battle of the Champions in Miami, Florida.

After the Venture One experiments in 1982 / 3, AT & T decided not to pursue a videotex service of its own, but instead provide service and support to other companies who wanted to.

After his marriage to Angela Scoular in 1982 Phillips decided to move away from the kind of lecherous twits with suave chat-up lines which had characterised much of his previous work.

In 1982 the two medical schools decided to merge and formed the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas ' Hospitals, more commonly known as UMDS.

In June 1982, Howard was selected to contest the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe in Kent after the sitting Conservative MP, Sir Albert Costain, decided to retire.

* FIFA gives to Colombia the right to host the Football World Cup 1986, but Colombian officials decided in late 1982 that they could not afford to host the tournament on the scale FIFA required.

Selby Kelly said in a 1982 interview that she decided to discontinue the strip because newspapers had shrunk the size of strips to the point where people could not easily read it.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News became a stage show in Oxford and London in 1982, but the main performers decided to end the project while it was a success: Stephenson began a Hollywood film career, Atkinson recorded the first series of Blackadder in 1983, and Smith and Jones became a double act in Alas Smith and Jones.

Artistic disagreements with a then editor, plus a general disillusionment with the BBC management, meant that he decided to retire from writing scripts in 1982 and to stick to just performing them.

* 1982 Assembly Standing Committee ( ASC ) decided that sexual orientation was not a bar to ordination and left the decision about candidature with the presbytery.

When it was revealed by Seán Doherty that Haughey had authorised the tapping of two journalists ' telephones in 1982, O ' Malley decided that the Progressive Democrats could no longer remain in his government.

The Kowloon – Canton Railway Corporation was created in December 1982 after the government decided to corporatise its railway department.

McMahon and Dick Clark hosted the television series ( and later special broadcasts of ) TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC from 1982 – 98, when Clark decided to move the production of the series to ABC.

A general election was called for February 1982 and O ' Kennedy decided to return to contest his old seat.

Michigan then hired Jim Stanley as their Head Coach on November 18, 1982 after George Perles decided to coach at Michigan State.