{"product_id":"framed-autographed-signed-matt-stairs-moon-shot-philadelphia-phillies-16x20-baseball-photo-jsa-coa","title":"Framed Autographed\/Signed Matt Stairs Moon Shot Philadelphia Phillies 16x20 Baseball Photo JSA COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Stairs Signed Philadelphia Phillies Moon Shot 16x20 Baseball Photo JSA COA Framed — Born Saint John New Brunswick Canada, October 13, 2008 NLCS Game 4 Pinch Hit Two-Run Home Run vs Jonathan Broxton Los Angeles Dodgers, 2008 World Series Champion, The Most Memorable Pinch Hit in Modern Postseason History, Framed Display Ready to Hang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was October 13, 2008. Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The National League Championship Series, Game 4. Two outs in the bottom of the 8th inning. The score tied. The Phillies' manager called on a journeyman Canadian outfielder named Matt Stairs — a pinch hitter, a barrel-chested veteran who had played for 12 major league organizations — to face Jonathan Broxton, one of the most dominant relievers in the National League. Stairs stepped in. Broxton delivered. And then the baseball left Citizens Bank Park and traveled deep into the left-field bleachers in a trajectory that a Philadelphia broadcast would describe as a moon shot. Two runs scored. The Phillies took the lead. The Phillies won the game. The Phillies went to the World Series. And Matt Stairs — Saint John, New Brunswick; 12 organizations; 19 major league seasons — had his moment. This signed 16x20 framed photo captures that moment. JSA authenticated. Ready to hang today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eSaint John, New Brunswick — The Canadian from the Bay of Fundy — 12 Organizations, One Moon Shot\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Stairs was born February 27, 1968, in Saint John, New Brunswick — the port city on the Bay of Fundy on Canada's Atlantic coast, where the tidal range is among the most dramatic on earth and where a left-handed hitter growing up in the 1970s and 1980s had to work harder than most to find baseball in a hockey culture that claimed most of the athletic infrastructure in the province. He was one of the few Canadian-born players of his generation to reach the major leagues and sustain a career of the length and productivity that Stairs achieved — a 19-year career from 1992 to 2011, 12 different franchises, 265 career home runs, and a statistical record as one of the most productive pinch hitters in the history of the game. The career that brought him to Philadelphia in August 2008 in a trade from the Toronto Blue Jays was already long enough to fill a museum. What happened on October 13, 2008 was the moment that defined it in the popular memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eOctober 13, 2008 — Citizens Bank Park — The Jonathan Broxton Moon Shot\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContext is everything in understanding the magnitude of what Matt Stairs did that October night. The Phillies were facing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. Game 4 was tied. Broxton had been one of the NL's most dominant relievers during the 2008 season — a 6-foot-4, 270-pound right-hander with a fastball that reached the upper 90s. Facing a left-handed pinch hitter who had not started since the trade, who was 40 years old, who was in the last chapter of a career defined by exactly this kind of assignment — that was the matchup the situation created. Stairs fouled off a pitch, took a ball, and then connected on a Broxton offering and sent it into the second deck in left field. The pinch hit two-run home run gave Philadelphia the lead. The crowd at Citizens Bank Park produced the kind of noise that a late-inning postseason home run produces when the season is on the line and the moment exceeds expectations by every possible measure. The Phillies went on to win the 2008 World Series, their first championship since 1980. Matt Stairs has one World Series ring. He earned it with a moon shot. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eFramed 16x20 — The Moon Shot Photo — JSA Authentication\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 16x20 photograph captures the moment — the swing, the follow-through, the visual record of the most famous at-bat in Matt Stairs's 19-year career. Framed and authenticated by James Spence Authentication, it is wall-ready: the Saint John kid, the 12-organization career, the moment at Citizens Bank Park, authenticated and hanging on your wall. The Matt Stairs moon shot photo. For the Phillies collector, the 2008 championship collector, and the fan who knows that sometimes the journeyman produces the moment everyone else remembers forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 \u003cstrong\u003eItem Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItem: Autographed Philadelphia Phillies Moon Shot 16x20 Baseball Photo. Authentication: JSA COA. Display: Framed. Player: Matt Stairs. Born: February 27, 1968, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Career: 12 MLB franchises (1992-2011), including Philadelphia Phillies (2008). Career HR: 265. 2008 World Series champion. The NLCS Game 4 Moon Shot: October 13, 2008, two-run pinch hit HR off Jonathan Broxton, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾🏆 Saint John. New Brunswick. The Bay of Fundy. The tidal shore. Hockey country. The baseball outlier. Twelve organizations. Nineteen years. August 2008. The trade to Philadelphia. The bench role. October 13, 2008. Citizens Bank Park. Game 4. NLCS. Two outs. 8th inning. Jonathan Broxton. The fastball. The swing. The contact. The moon shot. Left-center bleachers. Two runs. The lead. The win. The World Series. 2008 champions. Matt Stairs. One moment. One ring. One moon shot. Signed. Framed. Authenticated. 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