Posts By Jack Gibbons
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3.1K13Calling the PenCalling the Pen: Means changed the national baseball conversation
When I left Baltimore to go to Philadelphia in September of 1983, the Orioles mattered. They were on their way to their...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: Oriole pitchers and catchers report but it feels off-base
So the sun, which has taken time off, and Oriole pitchers and catchers, who have been off for even longer, are expected...
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Orioles
What it was like to be at Camden Yards for the Orioles’ first intrasquad game
BaltimoreBaseball.com publisher Steve Cockey covered the Orioles’ first intrasquad game on Wednesday night at Camden Yards, and we asked him what the...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: There’s no crying in baseball, but it’s OK to miss it
There was something about the last game of a baseball season that troubled me. One-hundred-and-sixty-one games had been played, but number 162...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: When it felt good to be the visiting team
The team we would be competing against played only home games. It seemed to give the players an advantage, but it was...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: Enduring life, and death, one step at a time
When my sister Colleen turned 5, my mom wasn’t home for her birthday. She was in the hospital having our baby sister...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: Mancini reminds us that we need each other
When I first started working part time at the Baltimore News American, I got a ride home one evening from a summer...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: Too much home run derby
I loved playing home run derby as a kid. You needed only two players — the pitcher and the hitter. Anything not...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: No fireworks, but plenty of color on July 4th
The July 4th cookout menu had a healthy portion of baseball talk but not much on the Orioles. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken...
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Calling the Pen
Calling the Pen: Rob Hiaasen was a big man with an even bigger heart
I was driving home from Ocean City on this day last year when I received a text from my friend, Steve Marcus....
