Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

Cool card Mark! If you find another of those let me know.

Clint,

I’m sure I have at least two of these. As long as I can find the thing!

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Clint,

I’m sure I have at least two of these. As long as I can find the thing!

That would be awesome. My dad was a Johnny U fan and of course I’m the Robinson fan.

[BaltOrioles]

I know most of the stuff being shared on this thread are older Orioles items and I hope I don't upset too many of you by talking about the great weather and fun of spring training in Florida. Granted, it's not the same laid back atmosphere I enjoyed when I first starting coming down to spring training, but still nice to see some baseball.

I don't consider myself an avid autograph collector, but do like to get stuff signed when I can. I won't pay for an autograph and my only certificate of authenticity is that I get everything personalized to me. I guess when I'm gone my kids will have to sell everything to another Orioles collector named Alan.

Here are a few of today's acquisitions, a combination of the old and the new.

Jeff Conine and Brian Roberts

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Adley Rutchman (Last year's #1 Draft Pick)

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Adley was very good with the fans, signing for everyone, but does ask to personalize everything. Not a problem for me...

I also picked up Jose Iglesias, Hanser Alberto, Brandon Hyde, Jose Rondon, Rylan Bannon, Martin Cervenka, Branden Kline, Trey Mancini, Richie Martin, Mason McCoy, Ryan Mountcastle, Renato Nunez, Anthony Santander, Chance Sisco, and Pat Valaika.

So a pretty good day.

[quitcrab]

Allan is non stop! He maybe the number one oriole fan! We all love our birds but Allan maybe be a cut above us all. So what do you guys think about the upcoming season? Orioles do better than last year? 30 games under 500?

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

I know most of the stuff being shared on this thread are older Orioles items and I hope I don't upset too many of you by talking about the great weather and fun of spring training in Florida.

I know I sure won’t be upset with all the great old AND new items being shared.

I already live in FL so I’m already familiar with the whether

[Mark70Z]

Day 51 (February 20, 2020 – 051)

This is a 1968 “Let’s get behind the Birds!” premium photo. The only one facing front in the photo is none other than Earl Weaver. To me it’s a great concept whoever thought of the slogan and the player arrangement. Now, here’s the interesting fact about this photo; it has several things changed or touched up including who was in the photo. Why did they do this you say? Well, the Orioles were doing a billboard campaign with the slogan “Let’s Get Behind the Birds” and there had been some changes to some of the team members since the original photo was taken. I will not go into everything that was changed, but that is really NOT Earl Weaver facing forward; it’s Hank Bauer. The artist took an Earl Weaver head shot and put it on Bauer’s body. That’s actually Earl Weaver in the photo with HARDIN #44 on his back. Weaver replaced Bauer as manager at the All-Star break and they needed him facing front for the billboard campaign. The up-to-date portrait graced billboards around the Baltimore area during the second half of the 1968 season.

1968 “Let’s get behind the Birds!” premium photo

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I just happen to have a photograph of the 1968 Orioles team photo taken my Mort Tadder; the same photo above without the artists modifications. If you’d like you can go through and see for yourself the changes that were made to the photo; be my guest. I know there were quite a few changes.

1968 Orioles team photo

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Quote: "I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank (Robinson) and Brooks Robinson." - Earl Weaver

[BaltOrioles]

If you have plenty of patience, here's a set you can work on putting together, the 1970 Dayton Daily News set. I've been working on this set for years and years. The cards were printed in the newspaper. They were designed to be cut out by kids each day and touted as bubblegum less. There are 13 Orioles in the set and I have found the higher numbers much harder to find. I'm guessing kids got tired of cutting them out over the summer. In fact, I've never seen what the Brooks Robinson looks like.

They also reprinted a couple Orioles in 1971, #5 Frank Robinson and #34 Boog Powell, with some stat changes.

I have 9 out of 13 of the 1970 cards. I'm missing #143 Merv Rettenmund, #154 Brooks Robinson, #157 Paul Blair and #159 Mark Belanger.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

If you have plenty of patience, here's a set you can work on putting together, the 1970 Dayton Daily News set. I've been working on this set for years and years. The cards were printed in the newspaper. They were designed to be cut out by kids each day and touted as bubblegum less. There are 13 Orioles in the set and I have found the higher numbers much harder to find. I'm guessing kids got tired of cutting them out over the summer. In fact, I've never seen what the Brooks Robinson looks like.

They also reprinted a couple Orioles in 1971, #5 Frank Robinson and #34 Boog Powell, with some stat changes.

I have 9 out of 13 of the 1970 cards. I'm missing #143 Merv Rettenmund, #154 Brooks Robinson, #157 Paul Blair and #159 Mark Belanger.

Alan,

Your examples of the Dayton Daily News seem to be in really nice shape for a newspaper cutout item. Thanks for sharing since I really didn't know what most of the Oriole examples looked like.

Here's my relatively ugly example of Brooks' DDN cutout...

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