Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

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Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 221 (August 8, 2020 – 221)

Back in April I mentioned The Orioles Advocates and one of the organizations they formed was the Junior Orioles. The name was changed along the line and currently it is called the O’s Dugout Club. This is a membership card for the Orioles1968 season.

First is an envelope sent in 1968 to Timmy, in Baltimore MD, with his membership packet.

Included in the envelope was a May 1968 issue of the Junior Orioles Bird Call.

Mark,

Even though I was never a Junior Oriole, I love that type of stuff. Here's a Junior Oriole kit from 1987 as well as a few more Bird Calls from 1966-1969.

1987 Junior Orioles Membership Kit.jpg

1966 Junior Orioles Bird Call Newsletter (Vol.2 No.1).jpg 1966 Junior Orioles Bird Call Newsletter (Vol.2 No.3).jpg

1967 Junior Orioles Bird Call Newsletter (Vol.3 No.1).jpg 1969 Junior Orioles Bird Call Newsletter (August).jpg

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Of course, in 1968 kids would have been collecting the 1968 Topps baseball cards, but some would be playing baseball related board games, one of them being a Milton Bradley game called, Win-A-Card that came with 100 cards which were produced by Topps. The Milton Bradley set of cards contained baseball, football, and hot-rod cards. Here’s the Brooks example…

1968 Topps Milton Bradley #20

Oh, and if you were a baseball card fan in Canada in 1968 you were collecting the O-Pee-Chee cards.

1968 OPC Brooks Robinson #20

Very nice Milton Bradley card. I've found centering to be an issue with them. Mark Belanger is the other Oriole in the set.

I have a near complete run of OPC team sets from 1965 up, missing a few cards. I think OPC cards are under appreciated.