Walking through the Citizens Bank Park parking lot Saturday after Jim Thome's 609th career home run had given the Phillies' a dramatic 7-6 victory, I couldn't help but wonder how rare it must be to see a player hit a home run that added to a career total already that high in Philadelphia.
Not as rare as I thought.
It turns out that their have been 17 home runs hit in the city by players whose career total had surpassed Thome's. And the great Babe Ruth has most of them: