Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[Mark70Z]

Day 221 (August 8, 2020 – 221)

Back in April I mentioned The Orioles Advocates and one of the organizations they formed was the Junior Orioles. The name was changed along the line and currently it is called the O’s Dugout Club. This is a membership card for the Orioles1968 season.

First is an envelope sent in 1968 to Timmy, in Baltimore MD, with his membership packet.

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Included in the envelope was a May 1968 issue of the Junior Orioles Bird Call.

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1968 Baltimore Orioles Junior Orioles Membership card – signed and unsigned

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Also, included in the 1968 packet was a charter member of the Babe Ruth Shrine – signed and unsigned.

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Of course, in 1968 kids would have been collecting the 1968 Topps baseball cards, but some would be playing baseball related board games, one of them being a Milton Bradley game called, Win-A-Card that came with 100 cards which were produced by Topps. The Milton Bradley set of cards contained baseball, football, and hot-rod cards. Here’s the Brooks example…

1968 Topps Milton Bradley #20

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Oh, and if you were a baseball card fan in Canada in 1968 you were collecting the O-Pee-Chee cards.

1968 OPC Brooks Robinson #20

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