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Tales from the Orioles Dugout
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Tales from the Orioles Dugout
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by Louis Berney
Sales Rank : 1262130
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Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC April 15, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596702230
ISBN-13: 978-1596702233
Product Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Product Description
Stars from the glory years of Baltimore baseball, including Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, Earl Weaver, and Brooks Robinson, share funny and poignant tales of what it was like to be an Oriole.
From the Inside Flap
For several decades, the Baltimore Orioles were the class and envy of major league baseball. Over an 18-year period from 1966 through 1983, the Orioles played in six World Series, winning three of them. They had the highest winning percentage of any team in baseball for 30 years. Most of their stars were home-grown products, players signed and reared in the Orioles organization. They were proud to play for Baltimore and to be part of the vaunted "Oriole Way." As the Orioles begin an exciting new season sparked by hope and a busy off-season, let's revisit the good old days in Tales from the Orioles Dugout.
The saying among players used to go, "What can be better than being young and playing for the Baltimore Orioles?" The team and its players were an integral part of the Baltimore community. Everyone in the city, kids as well as their grandmothers, knew the batting averages of each player in the starting lineup as well as the personality traits of the players-from the stars down to the bench players.
Tales from the Orioles Dugout shares the stories of many of those players, as well as some of their predecessors and successors, in their own words. They discuss the pivotal plays and the big games that electrified the city, and they talk about what went on behind the scenes-from tape ball games in the Metrodome and all-nighters with Boog Powell to Rick Dempsey leading Boston fans in a chorus of "Raindrops Are Falling on My Head" or Ben McDonald "fishing" in a flooded Camden Yards dugout.
Hall of Famers like Jim Palmer, Earl Weaver, and Brooks Robinson, and future Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., share tales of what it was like to be part of a proud baseball tradition. Individually, their stories are funny, poignant and eccentric. Collectively, they offer a portrait of a team that is as much a family and a community treasure as it is a professional sports organization.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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