Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Alan....Back in the fall of '95, Sports Illustrated's 2131 Special Edition magazine hit the newsstands and there was an article in it about my collection. Fortunately, someone associated with the DB club (might have been the GM) read it and reached out to tell me he had this jersey (and pants which I didn't show) and asked if I would like to add it to my collection.

Got a lot of nice publicity from that article (and picked up some neat pieces along the way)!

Bill,

Great story. I've found most minor league teams have limited space for storage and a don't have a good handle on the significance of their history within an organization. It's amazing what teams will give you if you ask them. I was at a Frederick Keys game and the Keys GM, Dave Ziedelis, was talking to me about my collection. I mentioned missing a few years of media guides. He said only a few were printed those years for internal use and opened up his desk and handed me the missing years. He said he was getting ready to clean out his desk anyway. They are priceless to me.

2005 - 2009 Frederick Keys Media Guides

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