Fish Tales
City Honors Longtime Phillies Personnel Man
Paul "Pope" Owens worked for the Phillies for nearly a half-century, mostly as a scout and minor league personnel man. The fields at the Carpenter Complex will now be known as the Paul Owens Training Facility at the Carpenter Complex.
Stroll by the Carpenter Complex some day, the Phillies training facility just north of Bright House Field along Old Coachman Road, and you notice the Phillies training or playing on four adjacent fields named after some of the greatest Phillies in team history. There's Richie Ashburn Field, Steve Carlton Field, Robin Roberts Field and Mike Schmidt Field. Now those ballfields will be part of the Paul Owens Training Facility. The city decided to erect a bust and name the training fields for Owens, who may have been just as important to the franchise as Ashburn, Carlton, Roberts and Schmidt were, but of course Owens is far less known. For decades, Owens was a fixture with the Phillies in Clearwater. It was grunt work. Only those who truly …
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