All posts tagged Orioles

You betcha. It’s happened three times  before in the same year. The Orioles were unfortunately under the  losing end of it but times are a changin.' Remember these years: Jan. 12,

                       "Experience makes good people better."                           “How does it do that?”                           “Through their suffering.”                           “I’ve had enough of that …”                                          - Malamud, “The Natural”   From the wild-card win in

Somewhere in the dusty storage rooms of the New Yorker building, exists a story told to me by my father.  From a 1940’s issue, it’s a fictional tale of

Dreams might soon come true for baseball fans across the Mid-Atlantic. The Orioles in the World Series? Even Baltimore’s most faithful hasn’t believed since 1997, when names like Roberto Alomar

Last year I took my wife to Camden Yards to see the O’s. We were staying in the Admiral Fell Inn in Fells Point for a few days. She had flown

The sun is still bright over west Baltimore this time of year.  As we walk downhill toward the "bend in the road" for a 7:10 p.m. start at Camden

(This is the continuation of the serial novel Nine Innings in Baltimore. Read the previous chapter here.) "Everything is gray ..."                      

(This is the continuation of the serial novel Nine Innings in Baltimore. Read the previous chapter here.)    “In the small glass of water that is Crabtown, everyone has peed in the

You could say that as a lifelong (OK, I didn’t become a fan until age 8, so lifelong is not quite accurate) fan of the New York Yankees, these