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Baseball: 50 years an Oriole usher and a lifetime of memories
For the past five decades, Gordon Huggins has enjoyed one of the best views in the house. As an usher for the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, he has witnessed six World Series,Cal Ripken Jr.'s record-setting 2,131st...Tags: Earl Weaver, Pittsburgh Pirates, Mariano Rivera, Texas Rangers, Brooks Robinson
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Top 175 athletes list left a few out
Congrats to Mike Klingaman and staff at The Sun for the job they did in compiling the top 175 greatest athletes in Maryland history. I noticed several glaring omissions, however. Y.A. Tittleplayed two years for the All-American Football Conference...Tags: Football, Jim Palmer, Baltimore Colts, Indianapolis Colts, Roy Campanella
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Pimlico wagering up 9 percent from 2011
Et cetera Pimlico wagering up 9 percent from 2011 The Maryland Jockey Club concluded its spring meeting at Pimlico Race Course last weekend, posting average wagering figures that were 9 percent higher than those at the 2011 spring meet. The average...Tags: The Jockey Club Incorporated, National Hockey League, Ticketmaster, Hershey Bears, American Hockey League
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Sports lists: People love 'em, but they cause a lot of fuss
Driving home Wednesday night after the Al Cesky Awards Banquet, I tuned my car radio to 90.5 WKHS's Ace and The Brain Show (Wednesdays, 8 to 10 p.m, a fine, commercial-free sports/music program that you should check out), and heard an obscure baseball...Tags: Radio Industry, Don DeLillo, Johnny Unitas, Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson
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Eldersburg man celebrates golden anniversary as Orioles usher
For the past five decades, Gordon Huggins has enjoyed one of the best views in the house. As an usher for the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, he has witnessed six World Series,Cal Ripken Jr.'s record-setting 2,...
Tags: Triple Crown, Earl Weaver, Mariano Rivera, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers
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Baseball: Calvert Hall grad Blair on shortstop watch list
Calvert Hall grad Pat Blair, now a junior at Wake Forest University, has been named to the first 2012 Brooks Wallace Shortstop of the Year watch list, as announced by the College Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday. The Wallace Award, sponsored by Mizuno,...Tags: College Baseball, Atlantic Coast Conference, Matt Antonelli, College Sports, Baseball
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Looking back: Rocky Colavito hit 4 homers against Orioles in 1959
The Baltimore SunBefore the Texas Rangers' Josh Hamilton did it Tuesday night, the Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito was the only player to hit four home runs in a game against the Orioles. Colavito went deep four times at Memorial Stadium on June 10, 1959. Here's a story...Tags: Baseball Statistics, John Powell, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Lee MacPhail
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Small-town Jimmie Foxx brought big-time power
Sixty miles east of Babe Ruth's birthplace, in the drowsy town of Sudlersville (population 497), stands a statue of the other great slugger from Maryland's past. But you'll have to stop at the town's only red light, corner of Church and Main, to view...
Tags: Sculpture, Triple Crown, New York Yankees, Lefty Gomez, Carl Yastrzemski
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Chris Davis' cleats heading to Sports Legends Museum, hat to Cooperstown
The Baltimore SunBefore the Orioles left for their first road trip of the season, first baseman Chris Davis and some Orioles teammates visited the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards to learn more about Baltimore’s rich baseball history. Now, the cleats Davis...Tags: Buck Showalter, Museums, Sports Legends at Camden Yards, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Fenway Park
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Clemens is no baseball hero
Roger Clemens is a selfish, self-serving liar ("'Trapped' in a pack of lies," April 24). How can it be justified that, in the latter years his career, he suddenly had an incredible amount of success? Blind luck? A relentless training regimen, perhaps?...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Vitamin B12, Vitamin Therapy, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds
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Bert Sugar, baseball and Cal Ripken Jr.
The Baltimore SunThe Orioles don’t play until tonight, but I figured I’d give you something baseball-related to read today. Bert Sugar, best known as a boxing historian, died Sunday from cardiac arrest. He was 75. Sugar is remembered for wearing his fedora,...Tags: Richard Gere, Eddie Murray, Bud Selig, Bob Costas, Johnny Bench
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Pitcher Mussina headlines Orioles Hall of Fame class
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Roughly a dozen years after he fled the Orioles for the greener pastures of the rival New York Yankees, leaving behind a bitter fan base and a franchise that hasn't been competitive since, Mike Mussina will return to Baltimore this...
Tags: Hinduism, New York Yankees, Mike Mussina, Jim Palmer, Colorado Rockies
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