The Bird Tapes
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1.7KDecember 3, 2025 at 5:30 amThe 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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1.2KNovember 26, 2025 at 9:50 amWhen 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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2.9KNovember 19, 2025 at 9:50 amThe 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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3.6KNovember 12, 2025 at 11:49 amWas 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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1.2KNovember 5, 2025 at 8:50 am
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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2.6KOctober 29, 2025 at 9:50 amWho 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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3.5KOctober 22, 2025 at 9:50 amOn 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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3.1KOctober 15, 2025 at 9:45 amMy 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 —...
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12.8KOctober 8, 2025 at 9:50 amHe Should’ve Been The Greatest Hitter of All-Time
The Orioles’ organization was never more loaded than it was in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The major league team reached...
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9.5KOctober 1, 2025 at 9:50 amOn the Oriole Beat with Dan Shaughnessy
(Another in my series of conversations with sportswriters who covered the Orioles on a beat basis. My interview with Shaughnessy, the legendary...