Harold Norbert Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, a position
Kalas at the Phillies World Championship Parade
Kalas, pictured before the 2007 playoffs, singing "High Hopes"
Permanent tombstone added to Kalas's grave in 2010 including two pairs of seats from Veterans Stadium, photographed January 10, 2011.
Replica of Kalas's autograph on base of microphone on tombstone, including "HOF 2002" which Kalas added after receiving the Ford C. Frick Award
Laurel Hill Cemetery, also called Laurel Hill East to distinguish it from the affiliated West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philad
Harry Kalas
…team roster paid their respects before it was placed in a hearse, which carried him out of Citizens Bank Park one final time. Kalas was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. In August 2009, two pairs of seats from Veterans Stadium were installed at his graveside, one pair on each side, facing each other at…
Laurel Hill Cemetery Gatehouse in 1972
The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1855 to honor Philadelphia's "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia
The cemetery was designed by John Notman with strings of terraces that descend to the Schuylkill River
"The Silent Sentry" was stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery in 1970 but was recovered and rededicated in Laurel Hill in 2013.