Not that the mascot largely — large as in that green, furry, bulbous belly — ever really went anywhere.
“We welcome the original Phillie Phanatic back with open arms,” Phillies executive vice president David Buck said Tuesday.
The team alleged Harrison/Erickson threatened to terminate the Phillies’ rights to the Phanatic and “make the Phanatic a free agent” unless the team renegotiated its 1984 agreement to acquire the mascot’s rights.