Posts By John Eisenberg
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432The Bird TapesLost Voices: Joe Ginsberg
When I interviewed Brooks Robinson for my book on Orioles history in 1999, he turned the tables at one point and asked...
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1.0KThe Bird TapesWhat Lies Ahead For The Bird Tapes (For Starters, There’s A Holiday Sale)
The year 2025 wasn’t good for the Baltimore Orioles, to say the least. But it’s been a great year for the Bird...
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2.5KThe Bird TapesThe One Oriole Who Just Told Me No
While accumulating as many interviews as possible with current and former players and managers, front office executives, scouts and others for my...
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1.6KThe Bird TapesWhen Ripken’s Ironman Streak Was Under Fire
Here’s an audiobook-style excerpt from my book about Ripken’s historic feat that focuses on the controversy generated by his desire to play...
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3.3KThe Bird TapesThe Moment Everything Changed For Baseball And The Orioles
On April 2, 1976, in the third inning of a spring training game in Florida, manager Earl Weaver pulled leftfielder Don Baylor...
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4.0KThe Bird TapesWas 2025 Really the Orioles’ Most Disappointing Season Ever?
I detected the scent of runaway recency last summer when I read in The Athletic that the 2025 Orioles were “the most...
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1.4KThe Bird Tapes
Tales from 2,131
In the mid-2010s, my writing life was easily described as “all football all the time.” Long gone from the newspaper business, I...
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2.8KThe Bird TapesWho in the World was George Zuverink?
As I’ve noted in earlier Bird Tapes posts, after Paul Richards first joined the Orioles as their manager/GM in 1955, he handled...
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3.7KThe Bird TapesOn the Oriole Beat with Ken Rosenthal
(Another in my series of conversations with sportswriters who covered the Orioles on a beat basis. In my interview with Rosenthal, the...
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3.2KThe Bird TapesMy Thoughts on Fox Sports’ All-Time Oriole team
Around the time of the All-Star Game in July, Fox Sports selected an all-time lineup for all 30 major league clubs —...