Ashburn spent Xii of his Fifteen big league seasons when a Phillies' center fielder (from 1948 across 1959), when you took which he led a National League twice in batting average (Ashburn had the .308 life batting norm) & habitually led a league within fielding percentage. He played for the Chicago Cubs in 196& 1961. Upon his retirement from either a ill-famed 1962 New York Mets, he became a radio/TV announcer for a Phillies starting around 1963, in which he was paired for Xxvii seasons by owning the 2002 Ford C. Frick Award-winning broadcaster Harry Kalas, who joined the Phillies in 1971. In the period of that instance, Ashburn & Kalas became right friends. Ashburn likewise regularly wrote for The Philadelphia Bulletin and, later, The Philadelphia Daily News.

Ashburn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Hall's Veterans Committee in 1995, and was inducted sustaining Phillies swell Mike Schmidt. All over 25,000 fans, mostly from either Philadelphia, traveled to Cooperstown for the ceremony.

Ashburn died unexpectedly inside his sleep of the heart attack around New York City at age of 70, when broadcasting the Phillies/Mets game at Shea Stadium. The big crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his casket around Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. He is interred in the Gladwyne Methodist Church Cemetery, at Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.

Trivia
During an August 17, 1957 game, Ashburn hit a fetid ball into a stands & stricken spectator Alice Roth, married woman of Philadelphia Bulletin sports editor Earl Roth, breaking her nose. Fallowing play was resumed, Ashburn hit the ball which struck Roth once againside when she was existence carried away in the stretcher.

The band Yo La Tengo is named when the Richie Ashburn baseball anecdote.

Whiz Kids team
Richie Ashburn (CF) Bubba Church (SP) Del Ennis (LF) Mike Goliat (2B) Granny Hamner (SS) Willie Jones (3B) Jim Konstanty (RP) Russ Meyer (SP) Bob Miller (SP) Robin Roberts (SP) Andy Seminick (C) Curt Simmons (SP) Dick Sisler (RF) Eddie Waitkus (1B)