On the day Ed Snider died, South Philadelphia was alive in a manner he would have relished.
Monday was the Phillies' opening game this season at Citizens Bank Park, and Xfinity Live - the six-pub pleasure complex on the site where the Spectrum once stood - was full with patrons. The ballgame was still hours from starting. The customers held beer glasses to their lips and took hellacious bites of buffalo chicken wraps. A Janet Jackson song thumped inside the building; a cover band blasted the Dave Matthews Band outside. From the patio, Lincoln Financial Field and the Wells Fargo Center were in easy view.