About the Club

Welcome to the High Hopes Club.

This is not a licensed store. It’s not run by a team, a brand manager, or a social media intern. It’s run by one person, a laptop, and the creeping knowledge that hope is the most irrational, painful, and undeniably beautiful thing about being a sports fan.

High Hopes Club isn’t just a store. It’s a vibe. It’s a support group. It’s a soft place to land when the ninth inning gets weird.

Why It Exists

Like so many people, I got into baseball because my dad was into baseball. And I got into Philadelphia baseball because I was born into it—like a child in a tragic fable, cursed by both genetics and geography to love a team that never makes it easy.

I started High Hopes Club in 2024 because I wanted to wear sports merch that didn’t feel like sports merch. I wanted the Phillies to have the kind of cool, weird, interesting gear I always saw Yankees fans wearing in Brooklyn coffee shops. I wanted something that felt like an inside joke one day, and something actually cool the next.

I wanted to be a part of a club. So I made one.

Why “High Hopes Club”?

Because that’s just the vibe right now.

There are fake clubs for everything—pickleball leagues, espresso fiends, haunted girl autumn. So why not one for delusional sports addicts who keep showing up, year after year, heartbreak after heartbreak?

And if you’re asking why High Hopes… are you even a Phillies fan?

It’s because of the late, great Harry Kalas, and the fact that we sing High Hopes by Frank Sinatra after every win at Citizens Bank Park. It’s because hope is baked into our DNA, even when it probably shouldn’t be. It’s because we’ve been through 10,000 losses—the most in league history—and we still show up with our dumb, beautiful optimism, yelling, “This is our year!” (It very rarely is.)

Who’s Behind This?

It’s just me—Mary. Phillies fan, creative chaos engine, long-time merch obsessive. I live in New York now (don’t worry, I still hiss at the Mets), but I’m Philly forever.

I run the shop, design the shirts, answer your emails, and scream at the TV. I print through Printify and use Comfort Colors 1717 tees because if we’re going to spiral emotionally, we should at least be wearing something soft.

Everything is unofficial. Many things are unhinged. All of it comes from love.

What We’re About

High Hopes Club is for people who love sports—not in the clean, polished way, but in the irrational, too-much-invested, “this is ruining my week” way. It’s for Phillies fans, yes—but also for anyone who understands the madness of loving a team that breaks your heart and then somehow wins you back with a walk-off homer and a guy named Stott.

This is for people who still have Jets season tickets. Who watched the Mets make the playoffs in 2024 because of a purple monster named Grimace and a pop song. Who saw the 1993 Phillies or the 2022 run and thought, holy shit, maybe…

It’s loyalty. It’s stupidity. It’s magic. It’s sports.

What’s Next

More shirts. Maybe hats. Maybe even some totally unlicensed children’s book energy.

I want to build a real community of fans who feel the same way—tired, loyal, funny, and always somehow still hopeful. I want to keep making things that feel true to the experience of being in love with a team that doesn’t love you back quite the same way.

We’re all just trying to get through the game. Let’s look good doing it.

Where We Live

Mostly online: