Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

Bill,

Great looking jersey. I have to know how you were able to acquire it. It has to be an interesting story.

Alan....Back in the fall of '95, Sports Illustrated's 2131 Special Edition magazine hit the newsstands and there was an article in it about my collection. Fortunately, someone associated with the DB club (might have been the GM) read it and reached out to tell me he had this jersey (and pants which I didn't show) and asked if I would like to add it to my collection.

Got a lot of nice publicity from that article (and picked up some neat pieces along the way)!

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Alan....Back in the fall of '95, Sports Illustrated's 2131 Special Edition magazine hit the newsstands and there was an article in it about my collection. Fortunately, someone associated with the DB club (might have been the GM) read it and reached out to tell me he had this jersey (and pants which I didn't show) and asked if I would like to add it to my collection.

Got a lot of nice publicity from that article (and picked up some neat pieces along the way)!

Bill,

Great story. I've found most minor league teams have limited space for storage and a don't have a good handle on the significance of their history within an organization. It's amazing what teams will give you if you ask them. I was at a Frederick Keys game and the Keys GM, Dave Ziedelis, was talking to me about my collection. I mentioned missing a few years of media guides. He said only a few were printed those years for internal use and opened up his desk and handed me the missing years. He said he was getting ready to clean out his desk anyway. They are priceless to me.

2005 - 2009 Frederick Keys Media Guides

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[ripfan008]

Nice article with quotes by someone we may recognize.

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...ball-card-set/

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by ripfan008

Nice article with quotes by someone we may recognize.

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...ball-card-set/

Hi Mike:

Thanks for that link.....For those of you who haven't seen it, Chris Dishman runs a great web site (www.ripkenintheminors.com) about Cal's minor league cards/collectibles.

Somewhat related to this, going back 20 plus years, I met a guy who was a professor at a suburban Baltimore university, who in the summer (late 70's/through the 80's) was friendly with the guys who ran the Orioles clubhouse and was able to hang out there & work in the umpires room, run errands for players, etc.

Anyways, he was a collector well before it fashionable to do so & was able to pick up a lot of neat things. He always told me he had Cal Ripken's "shaving kit," which even I thought was odd (said Cal left it in his locker after the season was over).

Eventually, he (or his family) sold his collection and I was fortunate to be one of the first people to view what he had at the dealer's warehouse in NJ.

So, I found the "shaving kit" among a lot of other things, purchased them and brought them home.

The shaving kit was a Charlotte O's giveaway item in 1980 and I thought it was weird why Cal Jr. would use it once he was in the Major Leagues.

When I showed it to Cal for him to sign it, he laughed when I told him the story, he remembered it however he said he used it to house his batting gloves while on road trips (which made much more sense)....For me that's a much better story!