After 40 years PhanaVision is part of the Phillies show It just got even bigger The Philadelphia Inquirer BCBBNPHILLIESPHANAVISIONPH

PHILADELPHIA — It poured on the night the Phillies unveiled PhanaVision, delaying the game 40 years ago and perhaps delivering a message from the baseball gods after yet another pillar of the sanctum was destroyed. The Phillies were already playing on fake grass while wearing maroon instead of red and being cheered by a mascot. Now they had the biggest video board in baseball — a 31-by-42-foot screen in the 700 level of Veterans Stadium. It was a whole new ballgame. “Whatever became of baseball for baseball’s sake?” Stan Hochman wrote under the headline “Lights out for baseball purists” a…