Shibe Vintage Sports is celebrating its 10th anniversary on July 12th and 13th with the release of their very first ever beer and with a Tailgate Party in the parking lot before Saturday’s Phillies-A’s game. The sports apparel store, located on 13th and Walnut, was founded by Brian Michael and Johnny Goodtimes in 2014 and now includes locations in Wayne in West Chester with partner Wheelhouse Cards. They’ve had a front row seat to everything from the Process years and last season’s Eagles collapse to a Super Bowl victory and Phillies playoff run.
“Our mission has always been to celebrate and honor Philly’s incredible sports history, and what better way to do that by having a big celebration the weekend Connie Mack’s former team, the A’s, come back to town?” says Shibe co-owner Johnny Goodtimes. The A’s played in Shibe Park, namesake for the store, from 1909 until they left Philly and headed west in 1954.
In honor of the store’s anniversary, a new beer has been created by local brewery Second District. It is a light crushable beer with a clean malt profile and a light blend of American and European hops for a gentle character with a nice crisp bite in the finish. “We wanted this to be the style of beer people drink in the parking lot before the big game,” says Goodtimes. As for the cans, Shibe is utilizing long-time collaborator and local artist Jon Billett to design them. “The goal was to create a can that looks like the kind of thing local baseball fans would have ordered at Shibe Park in the 1950s and ‘60s,” says Billett.
Shibe will be hosting a beer launch party on Friday July 12th at 6pm at their flagship location store at 13th & Walnut Streets in Center City, with free samples for everyone 21 and over, and a talk by local baseball historian Matt Albertson about the Philadelphia A’s. The next day Saturday, July 13 from 1-4pm, Shibe will have a open-to-the-public tailgate party in Parking Lot N before the Phillies game, featuring the Lower Mayfair tailgate bus, free beer samples, food, music and Athletics memorabilia. “We’re just so thankful to everyone for supporting us these past ten years,” says Goodtimes, “And we want to invite any and all of those folks to come by our store on Friday or the parking lot Saturday to say hi and celebrate with us.”
Additional celebrations for Shibe’s 10 year anniversary include:
