Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

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For the past 14 seasons, the structure of the Orioles minor league affiliates has remained intact, with the exception of the Orioles dropping their Bluefield affiliate after the 2010 season. The Delmarva Shorebirds have been the Orioles low level class A affiliate since 1997.

However, in the early 1990's the Orioles A affiliates hopped around for a few years until landing in Delmarva. Teams included the Wausua Timbers (1990), Kane County Cougars (1991-1992), Albany Polecats (1993-1994) and High Desert Mavericks (1995-1996).

Today, I'm taking a look at the 1992 Kane County Cougars. The Cougars were located in Geneva, Illinois and played in the Midwest League. The Cougars finished 61-76. Not a lot of future Orioles talent on the team, but did include Rick Krivda, Curtis Goodwin, Scott Klingenbeck and Jimmy Haynes.

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1992 Kane County Cougars team photo

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1992 Program

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1992 Scorecard

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Day 266 (September 22, 2020 - 266)

Once again we see the Norman Rockwell, “Gee, Thanks Brooks” on a Rawlings Sporting Goods Company cover. The 1972 Rawlings Spring and Summer Institutional catalog with all the Rawlings sporting goods listed inside. They even have the start of the new colored gloves; featuring bright red and blue gloves, endorsed by Reggie Jackson (GJ55, GJ56) and Willie Stargell (GJ64, GJ65).

1972 Rawlings Spring and Summer Institutional catalog

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William Jacobellis was a highly regarded sports photographer for many years. Topps used some of his photos for their cards, especially in the 1950's & 60's. His original photos pop occasionally on eBay and some stars go for big bucks. Aside from his name/stamp on the back, his photos tend to have a black border around them. I picked up a few Orioles for my collection years ago.

William Jacobellis 4x5 Photos


Darrell Johnson

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Ron Moeller

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Charlie Locke

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Bob Caffery

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Originally Posted by BaltOrioles

William Jacobellis was a highly regarded sports photographer for many years. Topps used some of his photos for their cards, especially in the 1950's & 60's. His original photos pop occasionally on eBay and some stars go for big bucks. Aside from his name/stamp on the back, his photos tend to have a black border around them. I picked up a few Orioles for my collection years ago.

Alan,

Do you think these were cut from a contact sheet?

Really good quality for sure.

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Day 267 (September 23, 2020 – 267)

A 1969 Orioles season ticket pass to see all the games in Memorial Stadium.

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An Orioles press pin from 1969.

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A 1969 Orioles picture pennant.

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Today wouldn’t be that great without a couple of fielding photos shot in Memorial Stadium during the 1969 season to end the post.

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Historically. the Orioles have printed postcards of mostly uniformed members of the team, players and coaches, with the exception of a couple postcards of the Orioles ballgirls in the late 80's.

Beginning in 1990, the Orioles periodically added postcards of their announcers and even a few general managers. The first two were B&W postcards of Rex Barney and Jon Miller. They were followed by Chuck Thompson, Frank Wren, Jim Beattie, Mike Flanagan, Joe Angel, Jim Hunter, Buck Martinez, Fred Manfra, Jim Hunter, Gary Thorne and Mike Elias. The Orioles took a step further this year and printed a postcard of analytics guru, Sig Mejdal.


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Day 268 (September 24, 2020 – 268)

I think all of these sheets have been shown, but I had them scanned so may as well revisit. I remember fondly the Upper Deck commemorative sheets in early 90’s. Oh, and of course they were called limited editions which were limited in the tens of thousands… I’ll be honest I’m unsure how many of these sheets have Brooks contained, but here are the five I have scanned below:

1991 Upper Deck A Tribute to All-Star Heroes – July 8, 1991

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1992 Upper Deck Heroes of Baseball

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1992 Upper Deck “Heroes of Baseball All-Star Game” – July 13, 1992

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1993 Upper Deck Heroes of Baseball – July 12, 1993

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1994 Upper Deck Tribute to the 1964 Season – June 4, 1994 (can't get this one to come up correctly; sorry about that.

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There may be more, but I think the five are good enough for today...