Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[quitcrab]

Those are nice examples of the stamps. The top panel is really nicely centered! Scott

[roarfrom34]

Great start to April to all!!

Here is what I suppose to be a girl's purse with the Hartzell bird logo on both sides.....

[BaltOrioles]

The Junior Baseball Federation is an organization in Philadelphia. Here's a quote from their website -

"The JBF was formed in 1948 by Bob Carpenter, owner of the Phillies, and Connie Mack, manager and part-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, to coordinate and provide funding to the city’s youth baseball programs. The earliest JBF benefit games were exhibition games at Shibe Park between the Philadelphia Phillies and their hometown rivals, the Philadelphia Athletics. The scheduling of these benefit games was later changed to regular-season games and this year, the Phillies have identified five games for which a JBF voucher can be redeemed. "

The Phillies would invite teams to participate in a yearly benefit game. Participating teams would not get paid, but the visiting team's city youth baseball programs would get a portion of the receipts.

I have four programs from the years the Orioles participated, 1964-1966 and 1972. While the covers are similar, they did a nice job with articles relating to the Orioles inside. The 1972 program has an article about the Orioles trip to Japan in 1971. I believe the Orioles also played in the 1968 game, but I don't have that program. If anyone can verify all the years the Orioles played, that would be great.

I've seen programs as late as 1977. I'm not sure when the game was switched from an exhibition to regular season voucher games.

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[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

The Junior Baseball Federation is an organization in Philadelphia. Here's a quote from their website -

"The JBF was formed in 1948 by Bob Carpenter, owner of the Phillies, and Connie Mack, manager and part-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, to coordinate and provide funding to the city’s youth baseball programs. The earliest JBF benefit games were exhibition games at Shibe Park between the Philadelphia Phillies and their hometown rivals, the Philadelphia Athletics. The scheduling of these benefit games was later changed to regular-season games and this year, the Phillies have identified five games for which a JBF voucher can be redeemed. "

The Phillies would invite teams to participate in a yearly benefit game. Participating teams would not get paid, but the visiting team's city youth baseball programs would get a portion of the receipts.

I have four programs from the years the Orioles participated, 1964-1966 and 1972. While the covers are similar, they did a nice job with articles relating to the Orioles inside. The 1972 program has an article about the Orioles trip to Japan in 1971. I believe the Orioles also played in the 1968 game, but I don't have that program. If anyone can verify all the years the Orioles played, that would be great.

I've seen programs as late as 1977. I'm not sure when the game was switched from an exhibition to regular season voucher games.

Alan,

For whatever reason the Junior Federation Baseball Games have been intriguing. I'd love to have a list of all of the games the Phillies played since inception of the organization in 1948. Of course, like you, I'd especially like to know all of the games where the Orioles were involved. Think it would be easier on the search if the games and dates were known. I thought about subscribing to the newspaper searches so I could search the Philly papers to find out more on these games. Hopefully someone knows more about the Junior Baseball Federation and can help in the research.

[Mark70Z]

Day 94 (April 3, 2020 – 094)

Figure I’ll show a couple of hardback books that have Brooks “somewhere” on the cover.

Diamond Greats by Rich Westcott

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Memories 1969 – 1994 by Rex Barney

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TSN The Game for all America by John Thorn

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[BaltOrioles]

I thought I'd share a couple photos from renowned Baltimore Sun photographer Richard Stacks. The photos are 11x14 and the quality is much better than the scans suggest. They are probably circa 1963 for Roberts and 1964 for Bunker.

Robin Roberts

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Wally Bunker

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[Mark70Z]

Day 95 (April 4, 2020 – 095)

While I’m not a big fan of the cachets I do have a few of them. Today I’ll picture a couple of the Grenada examples below.

Grenada Cachets – November 28, 1988

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Day 95 b Cachet November 28, 1988.jpg

Below is a small Grenada stamp panel with Brooks included.

Day 95 c 1988 Grenada Stamps.jpg

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

I thought I'd share a couple photos from renowned Baltimore Sun photographer Richard Stacks. The photos are 11x14 and the quality is much better than the scans suggest. They are probably circa 1963 for Roberts and 1964 for Bunker.

I don't think I have any photos from Stacks, but would love to acquire some or at least one. He had a way with his photographs that's for sure. The two you posted are especially nice AND of the over-sized variety. The block letter uniforms are very nice looking in my view.