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2023 Baseballtown Charities Phillies Winter Caravan Details

January 30, 2023

(Reading, PA) - The R-Phils are excited to announce that our 2023 Baseballtown Charities Phillies Winter Caravan presented by Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc. will begin Thursday night Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. Voice of the R-Phils Bob McCool will be joined by a variety of former Reading players and coaches.

(Reading, PA) - The R-Phils are excited to announce that our 2023 Baseballtown Charities Phillies Winter Caravan presented by Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc. will begin Thursday night Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. Voice of the R-Phils Bob McCool will be joined by a variety of former Reading players and coaches.

You can watch the Caravan on a variety of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram Story, Twitter, Twitch and YouTube. McCool will be joined by a variety of former R-Phils players and coaches. Darick Hall will join McCool this Thursday to lead off. Hall, who played for Reading in 2018 and '19, helped the Phillies to the 2022 National League Championship.

The schedule for this years Caravan is as follows (all begin at 8 p.m.):

Feb. 2: Darick Hall; Feb. 9: Dusty Wathan; Feb. 16: Dave Lundquist; Feb. 23: Mick Abel and Mar. 2: Aaron Nola

Wathan managed the R-Phils from 2012 to 2016 and now is the third-base coach for the Phillies. Lundquist served on Wathan's staff as a pitching coach and now is the assistant pitching coach for the Phillies. Nola spent parts of the 2014 and '15 seasons with the R-Phils and is entering 9th major league season after helping pitch the Phillies to a World Series appearance. Abel enjoyed success with the R-Phils after joining the team in the later-part of the 2022 season.

The R-Phils also welcome back Leibensberger Funeral Home as the primary sponsor for the Winter Caravan, benefitting Baseballtown Charities.

Additionally, an online auction will be included with the Caravan. Included with the auction is R-Phils nostalgic memorabilia, bobbleheads, autographed items and more! The online auction is now underway and concludes on March 2 at 9 p.m. You can bid for those items right HERE.

You can check out more about Baseballtown Charities here: https://www.milb.com/reading/community/baseballtown

We are so excited to welcome so many great former R-Phils for our 2023 Baseballtown Charities Phillies Winter Caravan presented by Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc.. Be sure to tune in Thursday's at 8 p.m. starting on February 2 and through March 2 on the R-Phils Facebook Page, Instagram Story, Twitter, Twitch and YouTube!