Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

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Day 104 – 14 April 2024
Today’s sheet is full of more of the same. Stickers from the 1970s through 2000s. I like the bright stickers so on this sheet I am partial to the “Baltimore Knows Boh.” The sticker reflecting Baltimore’s frustration with Peters is fun (“I am Petered Out!”). I also like the HoF Ripken/Gwynn sticker. On the next sheet, you see a couple old Decals from the 1950s at the bottom left. The top right “Looking Great in 1978” is a cool one.

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Day 105 – 15 April 2024
Ok…we will move on to some individual stickers. My favorite sticker is on this framed group celebrating an award for Jim Gentile from the Maryland Drycleaning Guild. The group of stickers come from a banquet for Drycleaners in September 1960. Brooks Robinson is featured with 1960 RoY Hansen, Gentile, and Triandos. I tried to remove the sticker but it would get damaged. I have never seen another. I wrote about this a couple years ago. Anyway, the sticker came along with a nice photo of Gentile in a leather bound binder for the banquet for the attendees.

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learned over the weekend that RHP Odell Jones who went 2-2 for the Orioles in 1986 (21 games) unfortunately passed away last month:

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I'm sorry that I had to post Orioles obituaries twice in one day but just in the past hour or so I have learned that both Larry Brown (1973) and LHP Ken Holtzman (1976) have unfortunately passed away:

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Day 106 – 16 April 2024
Today’s sticker is from 1974 celebrating the Orioles attendance goals. I liked this sticker so much I had it framed and it turned out very nice. It appears they fell short with an attendance of 962,620. Out of the 24 teams in the MLB in 1974, they were ranked at the bottom with 5 other teams having fewer attendees. The bright orange with the bird and black letters really pop. Hard to believe this sticker is over 50 years old.

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We seem to be losing former Orioles on a daily basis. I just saw where former Oriole and HOF manager Whitey Herzog passed away yesterday at 92. He played with the Orioles in 1961-62.

Here's a few 8x10 photos and postcards of Herzog, along with the other recent deaths (Larry Brown, Odell Jones and Ken Holtzman).


Herzog, Whitey 1.jpg 1961 Postcards 04.JPG

Brown, Larry 1.jpg 197374 Postcards 02.JPG

Jones, Odell 1.jpg Mel Bailey 34.JPG

Holtzman, Ken (Tadder) 4x5.jpg Mel Bailey 31.JPG