Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

BaltOrioles · #1 09-29-2020, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by roarfrom34

Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of the infamous Game 162 and I was fortunate enough to be there...I generally don't go to weeknight games due to the distance, but I had a rain check that I had to use or I'd lose it, so I called my son the night before & asked him if he wanted to go to the last game of the season...Fortunately, he agreed and one of our Baltimore area friends met us there...

There was a long rain delay and when they resumed playing the Orioles said you could sit anywhere you wanted & fortunately we chose seats in left field probably 100 feet or so from the Red Soxs' Carl Crawford (who was unable to handle Robert Andino's game winning liner)...I'll never forget watching the Orioles players celebrate and Papelbon and the rest of the Sox players walking off the field when the Jumbo Tron suddenly switched to the action in St. Pete & showing Longoria hitting his walk off HR thus eliminating Boston from the post season...

Bill,

Great story. As a life long "Maine-ah" and professed Red Sox hater, that ranks as one of my all-time favorite regular season games. A close second was when the O's overcame a 9-run deficit to the Red Sox in 2009. Papelbon blew that one too.

Robert Andino was immediately inducted into my Orioles Hall of Fame.

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Mark70Z · #2 09-30-2020, 02:59 AM

Day 274 (September 30, 2020 � 274)

The item pictured today is a Brooks Robinson semi life-size standup. I�m really not sure what it was used for, possibly a signing, an awards dinner and/or an advertising piece; who knows. I�ve seen a couple of the same standup so I�m also not sure if it was something just produced for the consumer. Anyway, it�s a pretty neat piece pictured near the end of his career sporting the white front panels on the Orioles cap.

Brooks Standup

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BaltOrioles · #3 09-30-2020, 05:19 PM

After a few emails this morning, we lost our power for the entire day. Huge wind storm in Maine and I lost a few big limbs off some trees. Anyway, I just realized nobody has posted today, since Mark's awesome Brooks stand-up. I've never seen it before and it's very cool.

Here's a few more O-Pee-Chee variations for those of you that care about such things. I'm still working on this two sets myself.

1981 O-Pee-Chee

All of the 1981 O-Pee-Chee cards can be found with cream white backs (common) and gray backs (estimated at 20-25% the quantity of the white backs). A common problem for O-Pee-Chee cards are centering issues.

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1990 O-Pee-Chee

The 1990 O-Pee-Chee cards have a little twist. All the cards come with gray backs, but only the cards with blue borders (Bradley, Holton and Tettleton in the scan) also come in white backs. Interesting, the white backs seem to be more common than the gray backs, in this group. Again, this only applies to the blue bordered cards. I have no idea why only the blue borders are affected.

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The two Mickey Tettleton cards illustrate the gray/white variation.

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Mark70Z · #4 10-01-2020, 03:03 AM

Day 275 (October 1, 2020 � 275)

The 1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers consisted of (16) 3-part sticker panel strips containing removable, die-cut stickers. Each strip featured a large image of a star player in the center, with smaller pictures of three players on top & bottom panels. I don�t have the 3-part panel that incudes Brooks; I just a partial panel.

1968 Topps Action Sticker - partial panel Brooks w/Perez and McDowell

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1968 Topps Action Sticker proofs

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BaltOrioles · #5 10-01-2020, 08:45 AM

Today, I'm going to focus on the 1989 Donruss set. This is by far the most challenging set if you want to put together a master team set with all the variations. So far, my research has found that every card has a least four variations, with some cards as many as six. The Eddie Murray card is an example of having all six different backs.

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There are three areas to look for on the back.

1. Each card comes with either INC (no period) or INC. (with period)
2. Each card comes with either *Denotes or *Denotes*

Here are example of each variation combo.

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3. Each card comes with either a narrow space or wide space between the Career stats line and the Contract Status info.

Here are both examples.

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Congrats, if you are still reading... After all of that, I have found cards with six different combos of these variations.

Here is the master list I have created. The cards with a blank are the combos I don't have and haven't been able to verify, but possibly do exist. I am interested in any of those, if anyone has them.

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Mark70Z · #6 10-02-2020, 02:50 AM

Day 276 (October 2, 2020 � 276)

Brooks had a career year in 1964 and brought home the MVP award. Below is a 1964 Orioles Working Press Pass for admission to all the American League games played at Memorial Stadium.

1964 Orioles Working Press Pass

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On October 2, 1964 the Sports Boosters Club of Maryland honored Brooks and presented him with a Most Valuable Player trophy along with a World Series Most Valuable Player watch.

1964 Sports Booster Club presents Brooks with MVP trophy and watch

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BaltOrioles · #7 10-02-2020, 07:40 AM

While it was exciting for awhile, the Orioles fell short this year of making the expanded playoffs, continuing with their rebuild plan. I always find it interesting to see who for former O's are in the playoffs.

I was planning to post these earlier, as a few teams are already eliminated. Not counting coaching staffs, I found 15 former Orioles on playoff rosters. Most are familiar, but a few you might have forgotten about.

Richard Bleier (Marlins), Zach Britton (Yankees), Nelson Cruz (Twins)

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Oliver Drake (Rays), Rich Hill (Twins), Manny Machado (Padres)

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Nick Markakis (Braves), TJ McFarland (A's), Wade Miley (Reds)

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Andrew Miller (Cardinals), Darren O'Day (Braves), Jace Peterson (Brewers)

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Justin Turner (Dodgers), Jonathan Villar (Blue Jays), Matt Wieters (Cardinals)

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Honorable Mention to Zach Davies (Padres), Josh Hader (Brewers), Jonah Heim (A's) and Liam Hendriks (A's), who all passed through the Orioles system at some point. In fact, Jonah Heim was my teammate during my brief stay with the Ironbirds.

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