Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

Love the Rockwell print Mark. On a side note did you guys know that Rockwell painted himself into the crowd ? Can you find him? Did you also know Brooks owned the original oil painting and sold it in the Heritage Auction a couple years back. He donated all the funds he raised to charity! What a great human being.

Here is another item from my collection.

Scott,

That's a cool piece. Is that a poster or what is it exactly. Looks like the photos that they used for the team issue items.

Brooks is just an all around good guy. He definitely is a generous person...

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Scott,

That's a cool piece. Is that a poster or what is it exactly. Looks like the photos that they used for the team issue items.

Mark,

It is like a poster, but printed on thicker cardboard. There is a similar poster for the 1971 team. Many of the photos are the same as the team issued postcards. There are a few different poses that I've never seen as postcards. I don't have mine with me in Florida to give you better details, but the photos are smaller than postcard size. They are tough to find in great shape.

There were also posters made of the 1979 and 1983 teams that look very similar to uncut sheets of postcards. They are printed on postcard stock, the photos are postcard size, but the back is blank. I think there is one on eBay currently.

[quitcrab]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

Mark,

It is like a poster, but printed on thicker cardboard. There is a similar poster for the 1971 team. Many of the photos are the same as the team issued postcards. There are a few different poses that I've never seen as postcards. I don't have mine with me in Florida to give you better details, but the photos are smaller than postcard size. They are tough to find in great shape.

There were also posters made of the 1979 and 1983 teams that look very similar to uncut sheets of postcards. They are printed on postcard stock, the photos are postcard size, but the back is blank. I think there is one on eBay currently.

Allan nailed it. I will try to post the 71 poster next week. It’s on a card stock not paper as Allan stated. I remember the 83 poster because a young Ripken was on it