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Originally Posted by BaltOrioles
Bill,
Very cool item. I love the way they incorporated the players names into the cover art.
I think we forget how important league championships are to minor league cities and the players that never reach the major leagues.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Alan....
The artwork is indeed very cool & I agree about your point how important these championships really are to these men. Somewhere I have a reunion team ball signed by these guys that night as well.
I look at Cal & think that in only about two months of this photo being taken he would get his 3,000th career hit.
Anyways, I just picked this up on eBay because I thought it was neat (and inexpensive). It's some sort of a 1976 bus ticket from Disneyland to Newport Beach signed by Grant Jackson, Ken Holtzman, Ken Singleton & Brooks.
One of the reasons I thought it was cool was that it included Ken Holtzman, who was only with the Orioles for less than three months & to see anything associated with his time there is unique. I suspect this was signed during the Orioles only trip to Anaheim prior to him (and Grant J.) being dealt to New York (April 19-21):
