Spring 2025
Newsletter
Museum of Sports "BREAKING NEWS" Letter
Welcome to our first newsletter!
This is where we’ll keep you up to date on our progress in establishing The Museum of Sports for America’s greatest fans. Please let us know what you think and if there’s something more you feel we should be doing.
Raising money for a sports museum has been no easy task. Two of our strongest supporters, Ed Snider and Lewis Katz, have passed away and the Pandemic knocked us for a loop. But we have stayed the course and are making great progress in locking up a prime location in Comcast-Spectacor’s reimagining of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.
I hope to have some big news about that soon. In the meantime, please enjoy our premier issue, which is being created and edited by two of our passionate staffers, Doug Shimell and Dan Fahy Jr.
Our mission statement says it all:
The Museum of Sports (MoS) is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to preserving and displaying the rich history of Philadelphia sports. Our proposed museum will feature priceless memorabilia enhanced by video and exhibits that will put visitors right in the middle of the action.
Fun, educational exhibits will change regularly to keep things fresh. An important aspect of our mission is to teach youngsters, especially inner-city kids, what it takes to succeed in life. We’ll demonstrate that through sports role models who made it big by staying in school, dedication, training, and making smart choices. Education is a key aspect of our mission.
We call the long-awaited MoS the ‘Fans’ Museum.’ Yo, it’s about time!
Letter From Lou Scheinfeld:
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The Museum of Sports at the Sports Complex!
Talks Continue with Comcast Spectacor The Museum of Sports is thrilled to be included in the major redesign of the Philadelphia Sports Complex. Comcast Spectacor plans to spend $2.5 billion dollars to connect Citizens Bank Park, the Linc, the Wells Fargo Center, and a new arena with shopping, restaurants, retail, office space, a hotel, residential, and attractions---featuring The Museum of Sports! High-level talks continue between MoS Founder Lou Scheinfeld and Comcast Spectacor’s CEO, Dan Hilferty and his staff. “The Museum of Sports is a dream whose time has finally come for Philly sports fans,” says Scheinfeld. “Comcast Spectacor agrees the all-new Sports Complex is the perfect location for a world-class attraction like the MoS.” Comcast Spectacor is not only partnering with the Sixers in the project, but the Phillies have signed on as well.
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“We want to showcase what’s coming to the Sports Complex in time for Philadelphia’s celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026,” adds Scheinfeld.
The Museum of Sports at the Sports Complex!
Scheinfeld notes The Museum of Sports is also in negotiations with surrounding properties to serve as an interim “Pop Up” home for the MoS until we can open in Comcast Spectacor’s redeveloped Sports Complex.
“We want to showcase what’s coming to the Sports Complex in time for Philadelphia’s celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026,” adds Scheinfeld.
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“And we also want to have a presence at the FIFA World Cup Fan Experience at Lemon Hill with our planned Museum of SportsMobile.”
Scheinfeld notes that fundraising for The Museum of Sports continues at full speed as the MoS team meets with City and State lawmakers to secure grants for the Pop-Up facility and educational programs.
The Museum of Sports will exhibit the world’s largest and most valuable memorabilia collection currently housed in the Depace Museum sneak preview location in South Jersey.
“Our museum will be the national epicenter for the sports memorabilia and collectibles world,”
Scheinfeld says.
It will also feature a digital streaming studio for The Museum of Sports Show, now in its seventh year on-the-air. And it will also stream live auctions and collectors shows, as well as serving as the ultimate special events venue.
“Now is the time for all sports fans to be a part of our Philly and national sports shrine,” Scheinfeld urges.
“Yo! It’s about time!”
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From City Hall...To Baseball BBQ...
To The Museum of Sports
Meet MoS Board Member
Brett Mandel!
To say that my career has been an eclectic one would be an understatement.
I’ve been everything from a City Hall insider and political operative to the leader of a non-profit.
I have authored several books about baseball, municipal policy, and political corruption. When I feel like pulling a hamstring, I am the Commissioner of the Greater Philadelphia Men’s Adult Baseball League, the board chair of the Circadium School of Contemporary Circus, (Yup, we train circus and performing artists!) and a partner of a startup that makes patented baseball-bat-handle BBQ tools, cleverly called, Basebal BBQ.
But what defines me to the core? I am a passionate Philadelphia sports fan.
I was thrilled to join the celebration on Broad Street on Super Bowl Sunday without climbing any poles! I would love to be able to say that being a Philadelphia sports fan is an endless series of joyful victory parades.
We know better.
In my collection of sports memorabilia, I display a sheet of unused 1964 World Series tickets as a reminder of the Phillies’ epic collapse. And it’s a reminder that nothing — especially a sports triumph — is guaranteed or should be taken for granted. To keep myself grounded, I regularly revise a list of Philadelphia sports defeats to determine the crushing magnitude of each recent loss.
I call it “Philly Sports Fan Reality Therapy.”
Philadelphia sports fans understand that root, root, rooting for the home team is not always easy. But those born into it or converted to the cause wouldn’t have it any other way. Philadelphia sports fans know that anything worth winning is worth fighting for, that talent cannot win without heart, and that win or lose, we are all in this together. That’s what makes the rare championship runs so wonderful to celebrate and that’s what leaves us with the crazy combination of a chip on our shoulder and inferiority complex when we come up short.
No city is more passionate about its sports teams than Philadelphia and no fans deserve to celebrate with their teams more than Philadelphia fans. Team owners and players only need to show us that they want to win as much as we want to cheer a winner, and they will never pay for a drink in the city again.
This is why Philadelphia deserves an institution dedicated to the city’s love affair with sports and why I am so excited to play a small part in the effort to establish the Philadelphia Museum of Sports themuseumofsports.org.
Philadelphia’s hot-and-cold love affair with sports is more than the games and the teams and the players. It is about us and how we are brought together by sport; about forging common ground through shared affinity (and suffering); about learning that miracles are real but “deserve” has nothing to do with it; and, yes, about snowballs at Santa and batteries and the darker side of sports passion.
This is what sports and Philadelphia are all about.
It’s why we diehards and bandwagon hoppers alike will eventually parade down Broad Street to The Museum of Sports that celebrates Philadelphia’s thrills of victory, and agonies of defeat.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Welcome
Museum of Sports Show Celebrates 7 Years On-The Air!
Tell Us Your Favorite Sports Memory & Memorabilia!
Every one of us is a walking Museum of Sports!
From that first ballgame with your parents…to getting that nervous, sweaty autograph…to maybe taking your own kids to their very first game.
Each week on The Museum of Sports Show we recreate that personal Philly Field of Dreams feeling by talking sports memories and memorabilia with athletes...actors...sports...artists...
sportscasters and celebrities---anyone who knows Philly is long overdue for its own sports shrine!
Tune in each week 4 pm to 5 pm ET to Talk 860 WWDB or watch us “Live” on the Talk 860 Facebook page and The Museum of Sports Facebook page!
And record a short selfie video and tell us your favorite sports memory and memorabilia that you own! We'll play them On-The-Air! Email them to
Museum of Sports "Complete the Mission"
Event A Wild Success!
Star-Studded Evening Showcases Philly's Sports Shrine
More than 60 sports fans, pro athletes, and sports artists packed the Haverford, PA. fan cave of Main Line orthodontist Dr. David Markowitz and his wife, Lecia.
The Museum of Sports "Complete the Mission" brought together former Philadelphia Eagles Freddie Mitchell, Flyers legend Joe Watson, NBC sportscaster Michael Barkann, iconic Flyers voice Lou Nolan, Philly Wings great Scott Gabrielsen, sports artist Perry Milou and many others to talk about why Philly needs its own sports shrine.
"The fans want it. The pro athletes want it. And Philly deserves it," noted Museum of Sports founder, Lou Scheinfeld. "This is the first of many upcoming events to get the word out that the Museum of Sports will be reality."
Many thanks to David and Lecia Markowitz for a fabulous evening of food, drink, sports memories, memorabilia, and art!
Scheinfeld is already planning another invitation-only fundraising event for July 19th in Longport, New Jersey. Keep an eye out for details in The MOS Breaking Newsletter!
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Super Bowl Champions, Again!
Birds “Wall of Fame” Assured
in The Museum of Sports
The near-perfect Philadelphia Eagles went to New Orleans and Super Bowl LIX with one purpose.
To win.
But what the Philadelphia Eagles did on February 9, 2025, in the Caesars Superdome in front of what felt like a home crowd of 65,719 was much more than just win. The 40-22 thrashing of the Kansas City Chiefs (and it wasn’t even that close) served notice league-wide that any future discussions of “dynasty” amongst any of the 32 NFL franchises needs to open its doors to the gang at Broad and Pattison.
What was supposed to be an incredibly close football game was anything but.
The idea of a Kansas City three-peat of Lombardi trophies quickly evaporated. Philadelphia climbed to a 34-0 lead early in the 3rd quarter. And the Eagles’ 24-point halftime lead was more than the 23 total yards the Chiefs gained in the first half.
The Eagles dominated Kansas City in almost every stat, leaving casual NFL fans scratching their heads. The Eagles defense could easily have been the Super Bowl MVP, sacking the previous Super Bowl MVP 6 times, intercepting him twice, and taking one into the end zone for a Pick Six.
And all that pressure on Mahomes came from the front four, as Eagles’ defensive guru Vic Fangio never dialed up a blitz. Yet, they still managed to force three turnovers and helped the Eagles offense build a 40-6 late 4th quarter score before conceding two garbage time TDs late in the 4th quarter.
The Eagles defense held the Chiefs running game to a mere 49 yards. Meanwhile, the Eagles offense used a ground attack – 45 rushing plays compared to 23 pass attempts—to force Kansas City to stack the box just in time for Jalen Hurts to launch the ball downfield.
Both Eagles wideouts, AJ Brown and Devonta Smith, benefitted from that strategy, scoring Super Bowl TDs. Eagles’ kicker Jake Elliot, who struggled during the second half of the 2024 season, found his old form, and was a perfect 4-4 on FGs and 4-4 on extra points.
Super Bowl MVP honors went to Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who took little credit.
“When you talk about team sports and you talk about everything that we've gone through, that's been the mission this whole motherf------- time,” Hurts told reporters. “For all the hard work and everything that we've been able to do to this point, take it one play at a time and ask yourself how you want to be remembered."
Going into the off-season, this Eagles roster has a young nucleus on defense, a number one-ranked offensive line, a 2,000-yard rusher in Saquon Barkley, and a receiver-quarterback duo that is poised to compete for multiple Lombardis.
And at The Museum of Sports, that’s where we see the greatest difference between this championship and Super Bowl win in 2018.
While the first Lombardi trophy in franchise history will forever live in the hearts of die-hard Eagles fans, that roster was built to win in that moment.
But this current roster? It’s one for the ages.
The Museum of Sports agrees with “The Great One,” Jackie Gleason, “How sweet it is!”
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“Spotlight On”
Lou Scheinfeld
Title/role at The Museum of Sports:
President/CEO
How long associated with the organization:
14 long years
Primary responsibilities held at the Museum of Sports:
Select a site for the museum, raise funds and acquire memorabilia and exhibits for display. Liaise with city and state officials, the teams and foundations for regulatory and funding purposes.
What prompted you to get involved with this endeavor:
Philadelphia is by far the most passionate sports city in the country and while we have more than 20 museum, there is no sports museum. We’re going to fix that!
Any significant accomplishments since you started with Museum of Sports:
We have survived the untimely passing of two of our biggest benefactors and a Pandemic. We have access to one of the world’s premier collections and have assembled an outstanding group of volunteers in support of our non-profit organization.
What are your personal goals for the organization, and what do you wish to see accomplished during your time with Museum of Sports:
After spearheading this effort since 2014, it would be my honor to see it open at the Sports Complex and hug the first arrivals.
What are three things that you want others to know about you outside your involvement at the Museum of Sports:
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As the founding vice president of the Flyers organization, I was instrumental in helping name the team and The Spectrum arena and operating both for more than 20 years.
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I had a wonderful career in sports. I named and operated the PRISM pay TV network and Spectacor, named the Kixx soccer team, and created the Flyers-Kate Smith legend. I’ve also been president of the 76ers and an executive of the Eagles.
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Born and raised in Philadelphia, my seven children and seven grandkids love following the fantastic world of sports. We regularly text back and forth during games, praising and cussing depending on how we’re doing. It’s a great way to stay connected with the kids that don’t live close.
When you are not handling Museum of Sports business, what are your other passions/areas of interest:
I follow all the Philadelphia sports teams, the Big Five and Penn State Football passionately and live and die with “my teams”. My book, “Blades, Bands and Ballers,” about the creation of The Spectrum—'America’s Showplace’—and The Flyers and my 53 years as an associate and dear friend of the late Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider, and my two Stanley Cup rings, are among the many highlights I have been fortunate enough to enjoy.
Getting the Museum of Sports up and running would be the cherry on top!
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Trivia Questions
AND HERE COME THE ANSWERS Answers: 1. California Golden Seals; 2. LaSalle, Penn and Villanova; 3. Mike Schmidt, Ryan Howard, Del Ennis, and Pat Burrell; 4. Fran Dunphy; 5. Allen Iverson, Michael Carter Williams, and Ben Simmons; 6. Reggie Leach (1975-76 Season); 7. Herb Magee; 8. Curt Schilling (1997); NY Knicks and Hershey Arena; 10. Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Iverson, and Joel Embiid; 11. Two Times (1976 and 1981); 12. Minnesota North Stars
