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WE DID IT! Phillies Bat Boy is Heading to the All-Star Game
By Kyle Pagan
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Make that three All-Stars now that the Phillies bat boy, Adam Crognale, is heading to the big game:
No one deserves it more. You could tell how good this guy is at his job and how beloved he is from his co-workers past and present who reposted the news on Instagram and commented under the announcement. Taijuan Walker and Jean Segura were just a couple. Hopefully he’ll get to have a couple beers with the Phillies when they return back home to celebrate after the Midsummer Classic.
Crognale delivered a thank you on his Instagram story:
It really was crazy how everyone came to together and voted for him. We had a couple of posts, he was on Preston & Steve earlier this week, Todd Zolecki did a profile, and you couldn’t go an entire Phillies broadcast without Kruk, TMac, and Taryn mentioning the vote. Not to mention the grassroots effort from Phillies fans on social media that kept the ball rolling. A complete team effort. This is as much of our All-Star appearance as Adam’s. Feel free to tell people you’re a 1x MLB All-Star. It’s like that year when TIME gave us all the Person of the Year cover. Now Crognale gets a moment he’ll remember forever. The hardest working guy in Atlanta next week.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com