Philadelphia Pa Athletics

EDITOR'S NOTE: Some recent columns by T.J. Simers have brought howls of protest from Philadelphians, some of whom suggested that Jim Murray would never bash a city in such a manner. How soon they forget. This column by the late Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist originally ran Oct. 5, 1978. * "Foo-delphia," the natives call it. The town that isn't New York--but the climate's just as bad. A loser's town. Its heyday was the British occupation. Ben Franklin slept here.