Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

I never really considered myself a schedule collector until I was at a card show a few years ago. One dealer had huge boxes of misc schedules at 10-25c each. As I pulled out my list of schedules I already had, I mentioned that I'm not much of a sked collector, but pick some up when I find them cheap. He looked at my list of about 15 pages and said "I think you are a schedule collector". I didn't realize until I organized them that I have close to 1000 different Orioles and O's affiliate schedules. I know a few people that specialize in schedules that have three times that many, with some very rare ones. I've been told that Orioles schedules are quite popular and tend to sell for a lot more than most teams. I've seen some from the 1950's sell on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

Here are a few from my collection that don't fall into the pocket schedule category.

1970 National Bohemian Beer Can Schedule

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1966 Political Candidate Schedule
compliments of Clement J. Prucha

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1965 Matchbook Schedules
from George E. Palmer Beer Distributors in Littlestown, PA

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