Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

BaltOrioles · #1 04-02-2020, 09:33 AM

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.

1964 Junior Baseball Federation (Philadelphia).jpg 1965 Junior Baseball Federation (Philadelphia).jpg 1966 Junior Baseball Federation (Philadelphia).jpg 1972 Junior Baseball Federation (Philadelphia).jpg

Mark70Z · #2 04-02-2020, 05:19 PM

Quote:

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 · #3 04-03-2020, 03:15 AM

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

Day 94 a Book Diamond Greats.jpg

Memories 1969 � 1994 by Rex Barney

Day 94 b Book Orioles Memories.jpg

TSN The Game for all America by John Thorn

Day 94 c Book TSN The Great Game for all America.jpg

BaltOrioles · #4 04-03-2020, 01:56 PM

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 · #5 04-04-2020, 03:12 AM

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

Day 95 a Cachet Grenada.jpg
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 · #6 04-04-2020, 03:19 AM

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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.

Mark70Z · #7 04-04-2020, 03:42 AM

Posted for Clint (ksfarmboy)

Clint has a nice Ken Singleton Game Used Orioles cap. He didn't specify the year, but I'd say 1976-1977 era (what do you think?). Always wondered why the Bird was tilted so far up on some of these hats, but liked it just the same.

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The hat looks very similar to his 1977 Topps #445

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roarfrom34 · #8 04-04-2020, 08:54 AM

I believe the Singleton '76 hat (BTW great hat Clint!) may be the perfect segue to this month's edition of an Orioles BiCentennial bat:

BaltOrioles · #9 04-04-2020, 10:22 AM

In 1992, an alternate to the programs sold at Camden Yards emerged. The programs were sold outside the stadium and eventually through a yearly magazine subscription. I started collecting them one issue too late and have all the programs printed, except issue #1. I have never seen it, but haven't given up hope of finding one. They lasted from 1992 until their last program in the beginning of 2010. The number of issues each year varied, but there are 192 different. The program was initially called GameDay, but in 1994 was renamed Outside Pitch. The publication's quality improved over the years.

Here is the Vol 1 No 2 issue along with their last issue Vol. 19 No 1.

1992 Gameday (Vol 1 No 2).jpg

2010 Outside Pitch (Vol 19 No 1).jpg

In 1998, Outside Pitch added a cool twist with their programs. From 1998-2004, they printed sets of what they called stat cards. They were distributed with the programs at the stadium and offered as promos to encourage subscriptions. The cards are 5.5" x 8.5" and the fronts varied a little over the years.

1999 Outside Pitch Subscription Thank You Letter.jpg

Here are examples from 1998-2004. In 2002 and 2003, Outside Pitch highlighted former O's players and included a card of Brooks Robinson in the 2002 set.

1998 Outside Pitch (C.RipkenNYY).jpg 1999 Outside Pitch (Mussina,Anderson,RipkenPHIL).jpg

2000 Outside Pitch (C.RipkenANA).jpg 2001 Outside Pitch #3 (C.RipkenCareer).jpg

2002 Outside Pitch #1 (B.RobinsonANA).jpg 2003 Outside Pitch #9 (E.Murray).jpg

2004 Outside Pitch #1 (M.TejadaBOS).jpg

On the backs of the cards were printed the current stats of the teams playing in the series. A few have blank backs and were probably used as the subscription gifts.

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I have 69 out of the 71 cards I know of. I'm sure there are other back variations out there. I'm also missing card #3 from the 2004 set. Here are the known cards and stat back variations from my research. Additions to the list are welcome.

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