Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

I've posted a few of these in previous posts and highlighted the sets in post #349, but thought it was a good time to revisit them for some of the new followers. Plus, Mark and I love this type of stuff.

The Baltimore News-Post inserted scrapbook cards into their newspapers, during spring training, from 1960-1963. They were designed to be cut out of the newspaper each day. The sets contain 45-50 cards each year and include many rookie prospects. The 1960 set was 4x7 and numbered, while the 1961-1963 sets were 5x8 and not numbered.

Complete checklists are available in post #349.

Here are the Brooks Robinson cards from each year.

1960 Scrapbook Card

1960 Baltimore News-Post Scrapbook #10 (Robinson, Brooks).jpg

1961-1963 Scrapbook Cards

1961 Baltimore News-Post Scrapbook (Robinson, Brooks).jpg 1962 Baltimore News-Post Scrapbook (Robinson, Brooks).jpg 1963 Baltimore News-Post Scrapbook (Robinson, Brooks).jpg

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by baltorioles

i've posted a few of these in previous posts and highlighted the sets in post #349, but thought it was a good time to revisit them for some of the new followers. Plus, mark and i love this type of stuff.

The baltimore news-post inserted scrapbook cards into their newspapers, during spring training, from 1960-1963. They were designed to be cut out of the newspaper each day. The sets contain 45-50 cards each year and include many rookie prospects. The 1960 set was 4x7 and numbered, while the 1961-1963 sets were 5x8 and not numbered.

Complete checklists are available in post #349.

Here are the brooks robinson cards from each year.

1960 scrapbook card

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1961-1963 scrapbook cards

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Love the scrapbook cards!! Thanks for posting Alan...

[Mark70Z]

Day 308 (November 3, 2020 – 308)

Make sure you go out and VOTE if you haven’t already.


Scott (quitcrab) has helped me so much with my Brooks collection and this piece comes from his collection; he was nice enough to part with it. Some items just stand out as keepers and this is one of those. Who knows why; it’s just the look of the thing. It’s a foldout brochure by United Citizens for Nixon for his 1968 presidential election. Nixon was the Republican nominee, and was a former Vice President, and was up against the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

The pamphlet entitled, “Athletes for NIXON” pictures the great Arnold Palmer with Nixon on the cover and Brooks is pictured on the back cover along with other personalities of the day. Nixon had some great athletes of the day endorsing his candidacy.

1968 United Citizens for Nixon foldout brochure

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[ripfan008]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 308 (November 3, 2020 – 308)

Make sure you go out and VOTE if you haven’t already.


Scott (quitcrab) has helped me so much with my Brooks collection and this piece comes from his collection; he was nice enough to part with it. Some items just stand out as keepers and this is one of those. Who knows why; it’s just the look of the thing. It’s a foldout brochure by United Citizens for Nixon for his 1968 presidential election. Nixon was the Republican nominee, and was a former Vice President, and was up against the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

The pamphlet entitled, “Athletes for NIXON” pictures the great Arnold Palmer with Nixon on the cover and Brooks is pictured on the back cover along with other personalities of the day. Nixon had some great athletes of the day endorsing his candidacy.

1968 United Citizens for Nixon foldout brochure

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Good morning Mark,

That is a great piece!

[Mark70Z]

Day 309 (November 4, 2020 – 309)

Even though I really enjoy the regular issue Brooks cards I’m drawn to the odd-ball stuff for some unknown reason. The odd-ball cards are cool, but the memorabilia is VERY COOL. I’m unsure if the item I’m posting today is a common piece or is hard to come by since I’m unsure how I came across the piece and I’m sure won’t come up on any searches I conduct. It’s a 1” 3-Ring school binder with teams or individuals playing some type of sport on the front and back. I’ve pictured the front a couple different ways so you can see what it looks like up close. As you can see the logos for the most part have been air brushed out and Brooksie is sporting a stash for the cover shot.

1977 1” 3-Ring binder

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1977 1” 3-Ring binder

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[Mark70Z]

Day 310 (November 5, 2020 – 310)

Memo from the Department of the Air Force dated May 3, 1965 related to the radio program “Tops in Sports”.

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USAF Public Service Program Show No. 33 featuring “The Brooks Robinson Story”.

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[quitcrab]

Wow.... I am guessing that Mark maybe the only Brooks collector with a Brooks Air Force album i!!! I have never seen that before and I collect records too. Thanks for sharing Mark.
Scott

[roarfrom34]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Day 309 (November 4, 2020 – 309)

Even though I really enjoy the regular issue Brooks cards I’m drawn to the odd-ball stuff for some unknown reason. The odd-ball cards are cool, but the memorabilia is VERY COOL. I’m unsure if the item I’m posting today is a common piece or is hard to come by since I’m unsure how I came across the piece and I’m sure won’t come up on any searches I conduct. It’s a 1” 3-Ring school binder with teams or individuals playing some type of sport on the front and back. I’ve pictured the front a couple different ways so you can see what it looks like up close. As you can see the logos for the most part have been air brushed out and Brooksie is sporting a stash for the cover shot.

1977 1” 3-Ring binder

Mark:

I've never seen one of these before (very cool)...I'm thinking while the logos have been airbrushed off, the mustache had to have been airbrushed on becuase I can't recall Brooks ever having one during a regular reason game at Memorial Stadium...I believe he sported one on a Japan trip

[BaltOrioles]

If you ever visited Gettysburg, PA you might have stumbled upon a shop that sold hand made clay figures. Chuck Caldwell was an artist that created figures from a wide range of categories, including presidents, entertainment and military subjects. Chuck was commissioned by several museums to do figures for them.

I'm sad I never made it to his shop, but do have a couple of his baseball figures in my collection. Chuck passed away in 2019 and I've been corresponding with his son to see if I can get a list of Orioles figures that were made. His son believes his father kept a complete list, but hasn't found it yet. All of his figures are 1/1 and totaled over 15,000 different examples. I have to believe a Brooks Robinson could be in someone's collection somewhere.

Here's a short 3 minute video about Chuck Caldwell. Bill please take note of the 1:25 mark....

https://www.eveningsun.com/videos/ne...home/97111668/


Here are the two Orioles figures I have. The pictures don't really do them justice. They are pretty neat.


1993 Brady Anderson

1993 Chuck Caldwell Figurine (Brady Anderson).jpg 1993 Chuck Caldwell Figurine (Brady Anderson) #1.jpg


1990 Gregg Olson

1990 Chuck Caldwell Figurine (Gregg Olson).JPG