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1 week ago |
baltimorebaseball.com | John Eisenberg
SCROLL DOWN TO READ ARTICLE The Bird Tapes archive currently consists of 41 interviews with former Oriole players, front office executives, managers, scouts, broadcasters and sportswriters. I started my Orioles history project on Substack by posting my vintage interview (circa 1999) with Brooks Robinson over a year ago. My conversation with legendary Orioles newspaper beat writer Richard Justice, recorded in 2025, is the most recent to get posted.
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2 weeks ago |
baltimorebaseball.com | John Eisenberg
SCROLL DOWN TO READ ARTICLE As a manager back in the day, Earl Weaver helped push Baltimore’s baseball franchise to the forefront of the American conversation. The Orioles never basked in the limelight more than when Weaver was in charge, leading them to four pennants, a World Series victory and a long run of winning seasons between 1968 and 1982. Now, more than a decade after his death, Weaver is again bringing attention to the Orioles — the history of the Orioles.
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3 weeks ago |
baltimorebaseball.com | John Eisenberg
SCROLL DOWN TO READ ARTICLE Years ago, when the Baltimore Sun sent me around the country to write about former Orioles from the World Series-winning 1966 team, I made a special trip to the Pacific Northwest to interview Wally Bunker. He’d pitched a shutout to win Game 3 of the World Series that year, and two decades later, he was making a nice living selling refrigerator magnets.
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1 month ago |
baltimorebaseball.com | John Eisenberg
SCROLL DOWN TO READ ARTICLE (One in a series of articles highlighting former Orioles whom I interviewed for my oral history a quarter-century ago, but only on the phone, depriving me of a recording that I could play now as part of the Bird Tapes.)Robert Richard Boyd could hit a baseball. His numbers tell that tale. While playing in the Negro leagues after World War II, he never hit less than .352 in a full season.
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1 month ago |
baltimorebaseball.com | John Eisenberg
SCROLL DOWN TO READ ARTICLE In 1953, the year before they moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles, the St. Louis Browns had one Black player — the legendary Satchel Paige, who’d pitched for pay since he was a skinny teenager in the Negro leagues in 1927. Working mostly out of the bullpen more than a quarter-century later, he was still effective enough to make the American League All-Star team in 1953 as, in theory, a 46-year-old.
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