CLEARWATER, Fla. — Leigh Middleton didn’t know quite what to expect when her husband and her father-in-law bought into the Phillies in 1993. There would be functions and events and … games? She had been the wife of John Middleton for 15 years, and both are Main Lion scions, so she had long since mastered proper behavior in every setting. It was in her blood.
But a baseball game isn’t afternoon tea, so these were uncharted social waters.
She was relieved when she called her parents, Jack and Terri Powers.
“I said to my parents, when I first started coming to games: ‘Mom, it’s like a family!