Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[quitcrab]

Wow Mark
Never have seen either of those. We have to find you a lacing needle! I wonder if any other items exist? Bat donut, spoil of rawhide for relaxing gloves, batting glove or a ball and strike counter ....

[BaltOrioles]

A few more promotional photos. The first four are 8x10 while the last four are smaller.


Brooks Robinson (Sports Illustrated)

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John Orsino (Wilson Sporting Goods)

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Ken Singleton (Sears)

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Gene Woodling (Diebold)

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Earl Weaver (Advanced Auto Parts)

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Kevin Kennedy (The Sports Scene)

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Jeffrey Hammonds (Caldor) and Mike Flanagan (Home Team Sports)

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[roarfrom34]

Ad Slick for the C&P Yellow Pages signed (up top) by actor James Earl Jones & Cal Ripken Jr.:

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Ad sheet for the C&P Yellow Pages signed by actor James Earl Jones & Cal Ripken Jr.:

Well that's odd AND cool! How did you come across this item?

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Well that's odd AND cool! How did you come across this item?

Mark:

While the promotion was ongoing, I wrote C&P Telephone & they generously had their ad agency send me a VHS tape of their commercials with JEJ & Cal as well as this ad slick.....

A few years after the fact, I saw that Jones signed TTM and sent the slick to him to sign, then added Cal

Does anyone remember their TV commercials? They were filmed at Memorial Stadium...........

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Mark:

While the promotion was ongoing, I wrote C&P Telephone & they generously had their ad agency send me a VHS tape of their commercials with JEJ & Cal as well as this ad slick.....

A few years after the fact, I saw that Jones signed TTM and sent the slick to him to sign, then added Cal

Does anyone remember their TV commercials? They were filmed at Memorial Stadium...........

Thanks for the background. Such a cool and unique item for sure.

[Mark70Z]

Day 117 (April 26, 2020 – 117)

If I’m not mistaken this picture is from a home game between the Orioles and the California Angels on April 26, 1966. The picture shows Brooks on-deck with Frank Robinson in the background up to the plate and the Orioles bat boy on one knee. The batboy in the picture is Bob Scherr wearing the uniform with “BAT MAN” on the back. Bob was the Orioles batboy from 1964 to 1967 and I like how the caption relates to “BAT MAN” the current popular television show which first aired in January of 1966. Bob was also called “MAN” because he was as tall as some of the players. Just a cool picture in my view.

1966 Wire Photo

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

A few more promotional photos. The first four are 8x10 while the last four are smaller.

Alan,

I really like the rarely seen promotional photos. Thanks for sharing so many of those, with different Orioles, in the thread.