Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[roarfrom34]

Bicentennial bat for the month of May is Rich Dauer. I acquired this bat in the same lot as the Willie Royster one I mentioned in an earlier post from a Rochester clubhouse guy. Rich had a monster year with the Red Wings in 1976, hitting .336 & tied with two other players for the International League Player of the Year Award (earning him a call up to Baltimore after their season was over):

[ripfan008]

Good morning,

Lots of items from the Orioles tours of Japan in 1971 and 1984 have been posted on this thread before but I thought today I'd show some of the Japanese magazines that featured Cal on them. Most of these came out in the mid- to late-'90's.

[BaltOrioles]

Originally Posted by ripfan008

Good morning,

Lots of items from the Orioles tours of Japan in 1971 and 1984 have been posted on this thread before but I thought today I'd show some of the Japanese magazines that featured Cal on them. Most of these came out in the mid- to late-'90's.

Those are very cool. I've never seen most of them.

[roarfrom34]

Mike...

I love those Japanese magazines (especially the one with just him & ARod).

Ironically, just last evening I was organizing some books in my library (need to thin the herd) and came across this one. It's the Japanese version of Harvey Rosenfeld's 1995 biography of Cal "Iron Man: The Cal Ripken Jr. Story."

Mr. Rosenfeld was kind enough to thank me in the Acknowledgements, but I'd be damn if I could find it inside this..lol