All posts tagged "next"
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Rich Dubroff
Orioles continue to prepare for draft amid uncertainty
Major League Baseball’s annual draft is scheduled for June 10-12. It might take place then, or slide back into July. Based on...
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Rich Dubroff
Trey Mancini’s recovery will take ‘months rather than weeks’
Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his colon on March 12, the day that Major League...
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Rich Dubroff
Another proposal to start the season has issues
Fantasy baseball isn’t for me. I haven’t been simulating the first weeks of what would have been the Orioles’ season. I have...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: When it felt good to be the visiting team
The team we would be competing against played only home games. It seemed to give the players an advantage, but it was...
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5.1KRich DubroffBallparks of the past remembered fondly, and some just remembered
I’ve been fortunate to visit 54 major league ballparks, 29 current ones—no one has yet seen a game in the Texas Rangers’...
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Rich Dubroff
My ballpark journey revisited: Camden Yards is still the best
Wednesday was a beautiful day in Baltimore, the nicest of the spring, and for the first time since I returned from spring...
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Rich Dubroff
Empty stadiums in Arizona one of many ideas for starting 2020 season
As hard as it may be to comprehend, the canceled Opening Day was just 13 days ago. So much has changed since...
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5.0KRich DubroffNative Baltimorean, Hall of Famer Al Kaline ‘was a special guy’
On September 8, 1963, Al Kaline had a double in four at-bats in the Detroit Tigers’ 5-2 loss to the New York...
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Rich Dubroff
The great Orioles quiz — pandemic edition
While we wait for Orioles news, here’s a challenging 30-question quiz. The answers will be published on Tuesday. Good luck! In the...
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Baseball Essays
Calling the Pen: Enduring life, and death, one step at a time
When my sister Colleen turned 5, my mom wasn’t home for her birthday. She was in the hospital having our baby sister...