Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[roarfrom34]

love the beer pieces!!

[roarfrom34]

Here is Paul Blair's signed "game used" jersey from the Orioles very first Dream Week in the mid 1980's:

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Here is Paul Blair's signed "game used" jersey from the Orioles very first Dream Week in the mid 1980's:

Man, that's a nice looking uni!

[BaltOrioles]

I took a few photos this morning of some of the jerseys in my collection and will share them over the next few weeks. I wouldn't say I'm an huge equipment collector, but have picked up a couple dozen jerseys over the years.

Today is a jersey from the 1969 Rochester Red Wings. Mike Ferraro wore number 6 during the season. I also have some pants from 1969 with #25 written in them. I just have to find them. The pants could have been Fred Valentine's. You don't see many older minor league jerseys show up, since stuff was reused and reused.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

I took a few photos this morning of some of the jerseys in my collection and will share them over the next few weeks. I wouldn't say I'm an huge equipment collector, but have picked up a couple dozen jerseys over the years.

Today is a jersey from the 1969 Rochester Red Wings. Mike Ferraro wore number 6 during the season. I also have some pants from 1969 with #25 written in them. I just have to find them. The pants could have been Fred Valentine's. You don't see many older minor league jerseys show up, since stuff was reused and reused.

Alan,

Very nice. You're right you don't see many minor league jerseys and that is a nice looking flannel.

[Mark70Z]

Day 134 (May 13, 2020 – 134)

Probably most people haven’t heard of Jack Zanger who was an associate editor for SPORT magazine and was a founding editor for Golf magazine as well as Ski Life magazine. This was before going into being a free-lance sportswriter and author. One of the books that Jack Zanger wrote was a biography entitled, “The Brooks Robinson Story”. This book was written after the sweep of the 1966 World Series, but mainly focuses on Brooks’ playing days in Little Rock and why he spent the first five years going back and forth between the majors and minors. As some of you know most of the shuffling from majors to minors had to do with injuries Brooks sustained while playing ball. Unfortunately, Jack died of a brain tumor at the young age of 43.

1967 “The Brooks Robinson Story” by Jack Zanger

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Thought I’d include a photograph of Brooks that was used for the cover of the book, “The Brooks Robinson Story”. I think it’s likely Jack used this photo since, as mentioned above, he was associate editor for SPORT magazine.

1957 SPORT photograph taken 3-13-57

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[Mark70Z]

Posted for Clint (ksfarmboy)

1954 Wichita Indians - Orioles minor league affiliate.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

love the beer pieces!!

That's GREAT! Wonder if they did any other ads related to his name and the Lowenbrau...