Forty-one states and nine countries. By my count, that’s where my work travels took me during my 23 years with the Baltimore...
Coming off a long road trip, Orioles manager Paul Richards scheduled an offday workout at Memorial Stadium on September 20th, 1956. In...
When the Orioles were at their very best as an organization in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Bobby Grich and Don...
When I debuted the Bird Tapes nearly a year ago, I had a shoebox full of plastic microcassettes containing recordings of rare interviews...
In the chapter on Steve Dalkowski in my 2001 book on Orioles history, I quoted numerous people who’d played with or seen...
Suddenly, it just made sense. I had a free companion ticket on Southwest Airlines that was about to expire, which meant I...
In the long chronicle of Orioles history, Steve Dalkowski is the greatest mythological figure. No one else comes close as a source...
For a few years when I was a kid, I spent more money on baseball cards than anything else. I rode my...
Jim Palmer was so polished as a young pitcher that he wasn’t old enough to vote when the Orioles promoted him to...
The Orioles’ acquisition of pitcher Mike Cuellar before the 1969 season is rightly considered among their shrewdest and most important moves. He...