Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

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Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 175 (June 23, 2020 – 175)

The 1977 Burger Chef Funmeal Discs are very common. The discs measure 2 3/8” across and can be punched out of a tray. Below is the front and back of the Brooks Robinson disc.

Lastly, we have a small Burger Chef advertising poster for the Baltimore Orioles.

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Mark,

I have the complete unpunched Orioles tray, but have never seen the advertising poster. Very cool.

[BaltOrioles]

The 1962 Post Cereal cards were one of those sets that I believed I finished years ago. I was aware of a few variations in the set, but didn't realize the extent of them. I'm still working on verifying all the Orioles. It seems that most if not all of the cards have variations depending on the brand of cereal they were on.

Here are a couple examples. I was aware of the Jim Gentile (Home listed as either Baltimore or San Lorenzo). I didn't realize that Brooks Robinson had a cropping difference (either more or less of his fingers showing on the bat)

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1962 Post Cereal Orioles checklist -

27 Jim Gentile
28 Marv Breeding
29 Brooks Robinson
30 Ron Hansen
31 Jackie Brandt
32 Dick Williams
33 Gus Triandos
34 Milt Pappas
35 Hoyt Wilhelm
36 Chuck Estrada


Don't confuse these with the Post Canadian cards (fronts in English & French) and much harder to find smaller Jello cards. FYI, for some reason Brooks Robinson wasn't included in the 1962 Jello set, but the other Orioles were.

[Phil68]

That BurgerChef Ad is SWEEEEEEET!

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by Phil68

That BurgerChef Ad is SWEEEEEEET!

Thanks Phil!

I was going through cleaning up some of my email and I ran across an email from you from 2006. We discussed this picture a while ago and now "we" know for sure I purchased it from you...

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[Mark70Z]

Day 176 (June 24, 2020 – 176)

The Orioles travelled to play the Chicago White Sox on June 14, 1969. It was Teachers’ Day at Comiskey Park. The Orioles won by the slightest of margins 12-3.

I’m not really much of a ticket collector. I have a few from when I went to the games and a few from picking them up when I hit a dry spell and nothing much else is out there. I know we have some big ticket collectors and possibly one day I’ll work on acquiring more, but for now not so much. I picked this ticket up because it was pretty big compared to the O’s tickets, nice looking, was a full ticket and the price was right. As a bonus, Brooks hit a HR in this game.

Full ticket to the White Sox vs. Orioles game on June 14, 1969.

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I was trying to locate a picture of Brooks playing the White Sox, but couldn’t locate one so had to settle for a different color Sox…Red. The below photograph was taken by Frank O’Brien of the Boston Globe from a game on July 20, 1969 played at Fenway park in Boston.

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[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 176 (June 24, 2020 – 176)

I’m not really much of a ticket collector. I have a few from when I went to the games and a few from picking them up when I hit a dry spell and nothing much else is out there. I know we have some big ticket collectors and possibly one day I’ll work on acquiring more, but for now not so much. I picked this ticket up because it was pretty big compared to the O’s tickets, nice looking, was a full ticket and the price was right. As a bonus, Brooks hit a HR in this game.

Much like Mark, I don't have a large number of tickets in my collection compared to some of you. Mostly World Series, playoffs, HOF games and a few from the Orioles Japan tours.

Here is a Sporting News print of Memorial Stadium from around 1982. It highlights various historical moments that occurred in the stadium. I say 1982, because it references events from 1980 and 1981, but has no mention of the Orioles World Championship in 1983. I believe it might have been reprinted around 1990, because I've seen some prints offered with printing in the lower left corner. This is one of the originals. I know I picked it up before 1990. The print is around 16x22.

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I included a ticket stub from the Orioles first game at Memorial Stadium on April 15, 1954 as part of the display.

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[roarfrom34]

"Disco" Dan Ford Game worn uniform top from 1983 along with a signed GU Adirondack bat: