I like that the Orioles want to have fun playing a kids game, that they want to stay loose and express support...
Editor’s Note: Gaylord Perry, a Hall of Fame pitcher, died on Thursday at age 84. This essay is from September 2021. I...
In 1973, when I was a sportswriter for The News American, sports editor John Steadman wanted a different approach to covering the...
I’ve become the Benedict Arnold of Baltimore baseball. For 65 years now, I’ve been a Birds fan. I cried when I signed...
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t fully appreciate Brooks Robinson until a few months before everyone else did. That’s when the...
Back in the 1970s, when I was a sportswriter for The News American, our travel budget took a hit, and I was...
The Baltimore Orioles begin the 2022 season today, and it’s difficult to feel excited. That’s because we live in the present, and...
Anita Karpovich paced around the house, screamed at the television, and eventually fell into a heap of despair after the Orioles lost...
On a recent drive, my husband turned on the baseball game, and it sent me back in time: I am 6 years old and drifting off to sleep to the sound of an Orioles game. I am riding home from a cousin’s birthday party in our Volvo station wagon. In my hand,...
The 2020 season marked the 100-year anniversary of when Rube Foster, the “Father of Black Baseball,” formed the Negro National League in 1920. To honor the occasion, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the following statement last December: “All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues...