Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Day 228 (August 15, 2020 – 228)

Today seems like a good day for a couple Brooks photos with his lumber.
A 1971 photograph by Tadder of Brooks at home in Memorial Stadium waiting on-deck with some eye black, B. Robinson on his back, BR on the knob, and his signature short brim helmet with the cut ear flap, just reading the pitcher. That looks like a H&B bat, but it’s has the circle like Adirondack; which is it?

Day 228 a Photo 1971 on deck.jpg

Color photo taken by George Brace of Gene Woodling, Brooks Robinson and Gus Triandos in their away uniforms ready for some batting practice.

Day 228 b Photo George Brace Woodling Gentile.jpg

Baltimore Sun wire photo of 15-year-old Brooks in his backyard with a clothesline in the background taking a swing for the camera.

Day 228 c Photo Baltimore Sun 15 yr. old back yard.jpg

[quitcrab]

Love the 15 year old Brooks. I think that’s the earliest picture I have ever seen of him playing baseball. Great stuff. Keep it coming Mark .

[BaltOrioles]

In 1993, the Orioles moved their AA affiliate from Hagerstown, MD to Bowie, MD. Bowie is still the Orioles AA affiliate.

However, Prince George's Stadium, the home of the BaySox, wasn't ready for the 1993 season. While the stadium was being finished, the Baysox played one full season (1993) at Memorial Stadium and a few series in 1994 at fields belonging to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as the minor league stadiums of the Frederick Keys and Wilmington Blue Rocks.

1993 BaySox Program from Memorial Stadium

1993 Bowie BaySox.jpg


Prince George's Stadium opened June 16, 1994. Its capacity for baseball is listed at 10,000, but when the Double-A All-Star Game was held there in 2000, the attendance was about 14,000. Until a couple weeks ago, I was only aware of one 1994 BaySox program. You can imagine my excitement when I found a program from the opening weekend at the stadium.

1994 BaySox Program

1994 Bowie BaySox #1.jpg


1994 BaySox Program from the opening of Prince George's Stadium

1994 Bowie BaySox #2.jpg

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

In 1993, the Orioles moved their AA affiliate from Hagerstown, MD to Bowie, MD. Bowie is still the Orioles AA affiliate.

However, Prince George's Stadium, the home of the BaySox, wasn't ready for the 1993 season. While the stadium was being finished, the Baysox played one full season (1993) at Memorial Stadium and a few series in 1994 at fields belonging to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as the minor league stadiums of the Frederick Keys and Wilmington Blue Rocks.

1993 BaySox Program from Memorial Stadium

Funny how they used a drawing of Brooks diving on the cover when it's actually a Brooks leaping picture from the '70 WS.

Day 360 b 1.jpg

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 228 (August 15, 2020 – 228)

Today seems like a good day for a couple Brooks photos with his lumber.
A 1971 photograph by Tadder of Brooks at home in Memorial Stadium waiting on-deck with some eye black, B. Robinson on his back, BR on the knob, and his signature short brim helmet with the cut ear flap, just reading the pitcher. That looks like a H&B bat, but it’s has the circle like Adirondack; which is it?

Mark:

It wasn't uncommon for players who had contracts with Adirondack to apply dark tape half way up H&B bats to make it look from afar (and on TV) that they were indeed using their bats.

When Cal Ripken Jr. announced he was retiring back in June of 2001, people quickly looked at the Orioles schedule and noted that the last game of the season was slated for September 30th at Yankee Stadium.

Rawlings began producing commemorative baseballs that were going to be used in that game.

The tragic events of 09/11, pushed back the season for awhile and as it turned out the Orioles closed out the '01 season on October 6th at home vs. Boston therefore rendering these Rawlings baseballs obsolete:

[todeen]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Mark:

It wasn't uncommon for players who had contracts with Adirondack to apply dark tape half way up H&B bats to make it look from afar (and on TV) that they were indeed using their bats.

When Cal Ripken Jr. announced he was retiring back in June of 2001, people quickly looked at the Orioles schedule and noted that the last game of the season was slated for September 30th at Yankee Stadium.

Rawlings began producing commemorative baseballs that were going to be used in that game.

The tragic events of 09/11, pushed back the season for awhile and as it turned out the Orioles closed out the '01 season on October 6th at home vs. Boston therefore rendering these Rawlings baseballs obsolete:

That's a cool Ripken baseball. Here's mine:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Mark:

It wasn't uncommon for players who had contracts with Adirondack to apply dark tape half way up H&B bats to make it look from afar (and on TV) that they were indeed using their bats.

Thanks for the insight. I've seen Brooks use a H&B bat with the tape, like pictured in the on-deck photo, and wondered why was that on that type of bat.

[Mark70Z]

Day 229 (August 16, 2020 – 229)

Yesterday I posted a couple of pictures with Brooks with his bat and I’ll follow it up today with a few pictures with the glove…

Brooks dives and stabs, one hit down the line.

Day 229 a Photo diving snag.jpg

A photo of Brooks from May of 1973 by Frank Bryan.

Day 229 b Photo 1973 May by Frank Bryan.jpg

The last photo today of Brooks is with a GOLD GLOVE along with Bench and Gibson.

Day 229 c Photo Bench Gibson Robinson.jpg

[BaltOrioles]

Thomas P. Paprocki drew a daily sports cartoon and wrote an accompanying sports column for The Associated Press for almost 35 years during the hey day of printed newspapers.

He signed his cartoons “Pap” and was regarded by many as the nation's leading sports cartoonist. He had a reputation for quickness in drawing his illustrations, which were published in the sports pages of hundreds of the nation's newspapers. They were known as Sports Slants.

Here are a couple of his Orioles cartoons from 1960

Gene Stephens and Clint Courtney

1960 Sports SlantsThomas Pap Paprocki (Stephens, Gene).jpg 1960 Sports SlantsThomas Pap Paprocki (Courtney, Clint).jpg

[roarfrom34]

In the mid 1980's I knew someone who attended the '83 ASG in Chicago and during BP scored one of the Official Balls....He gave it to me and shortly thereafter I had Cal sign it & for some reason I thought red ink was the way to go (to match the stampings) & I think it turned out pretty good...

[Chstrite]

Mark, the salesman 1962 are cool. Never seen this one before. Thanks for sharing.