Posts By John Eisenberg
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1.6KThe Bird TapesBird Tapes Photo Album: Three Birds At A Ballgame
A Bird Tapes subscriber recalls when his classmate, Curt Blefary, and two of Blefary’s Oriole teammates came to a college baseball game....
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2.2KThe Bird TapesThe Poignant Story of an Orioles Fight Song
Carl Rabovsky didn’t take the road well traveled. A Baltimore native, he studied accounting and briefly working at WBAL before “deciding the...
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6.8KThe Bird TapesThe Life of Mark Belanger
In 2015, Dominic Dastoli was working as a features producer for the Golf Channel, but he wanted to try making a longer...
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2.2KThe Bird TapesClassic Orioles Card: Willy Miranda, 1957
Willy Miranda could hit from either side of the plate, theoretically an advantage. But he batted just .221 with six home runs...
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1.3KThe Bird TapesThe Short Fielder’s DNA – A Family Baseball Memoir (Part 2)
(Note from John Eisenberg: I’ve been fortunate to travel on two different rails as a writer, publishing 11 nonfiction books, each of...
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1.6KThe Bird TapesThe Short Fielder’s DNA
In the first part of a personal essay about baseball, I chronicle the game’s enduring presence in my family, going back nearly...
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3.8KThe Bird TapesThe Orioles’ Adult In The Room
Sandwiched between Boog Powell and Eddie Murray in Oriole first base lore, Lee May was a slugger known as “the Big Bopper.”...
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3.3KThe Bird TapesListen: A Loyal Oriole Fan’s Soundtrack
Ben Schenck used to collect autographs on his baseball glove outside Memorial Stadium. Decades later, he is a jazz musician in New...
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3.2KThe Bird TapesThe One And Only Billy Loes
On his way to winning a team-high 14 games for the Orioles in 1957, pitcher Connie Johnson had a curious conversation with...
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6.0KThe Bird TapesThe dark cloud over the magical 1966 Orioles’ season
Shortly before they made their most important trade ever, acquiring Frank Robinson from the Cincinnati Reds in December 1965, the Orioles made...