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He is promptly put in his place by the "Phrenetic". logged you out. As the baseball season opens – with time off rare, and sweltering 14-day home stands observed through the green mesh neck of his closest friend, his only air conditioning the occasional ice pack strapped to his chest – he laughs in anticipation. While many big-league sports mascots are prisoners of static heads and frozen smiles, this one can do the double take. This lawsuit is an attempt from preventing the mascot from becoming a free agent. The third result is Tom J Burgoyne Sr. age 60s in Fremont, NE. He also has written sixteen children’s books, chronicling the adventures of the Phillie Phanatic and started a reading and literacy program in the Philadelphia area called “Be A Phanatic About Reading”. "That's a person who wants to be in the act," Burgoyne observes. No problem.