Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

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Day 344 – 9 December 2024
As a kid my favorite left handed pitcher for the Orioles was Dave McNally. The two time WS champion would win 184 games over 14 years (all but one with the Orioles). He would win 20 plus games 4 straight years to include 1971 with 3 other orioles. I was a sad camper when he went to Montreal in 1975. Today, I am showing you a few of my favorite McNally items. At top is a ball signed by the four Oriole 20 game winners in 1971 (McNally, Cuellar, Dobson and Palmer). To the right is his “aisle” marker from Memorial Stadium. His rookie card from 1963 is next to it. I then show a 1971 Milk Duds Box, 1969 Transogram Box, an album from 1972 with a brilliant photo of him purposefully blurry. I was lucky to find a 1962 debut game for McNally. I am showing you the highest graded (PSA 7) Hand Cut McNally 1970 Action Cartridge. The other photo shows some other items to include him on the 1967 Pocket Schedule, 1971 Bazooka Numbered Hand Cut Card, the 1970 Orioles Champions Orange Card, his 1970 Traffic Safety Card, 1970 Carl Aldana Orioles Card and 1971 Bazooka Complete Box. I have so many more items to show but that will be it for today. After baseball, he returned to his hometown in Montana where he sold cars. McNally is one of the best Oriole pitchers of all time and died fairly young of cancer in 2002 at the age of 60.