Former Orioles ace and Hall of Famer Jim Palmer has a couple of pieces of memorabilia from his career up for auction this month. Fans of Palmer, the three-time Cy Young Award winner and current Orioles television analyst, Can buy his 1977 Rawlings Gold Glove Award and a 1972 game-worn uniform through...
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The announcement that classic rocker Billy Joel will play at Oriole Park in late July breaks with a long-standing organizational reluctance to host major concerts, but it’s the right thing to do on a number of levels. The Orioles will be in the middle of the first full year of what could be a painful...
If you want to pinpoint the season when the Orioles began their obsessive love affair with the home run, it might be 1996, when Rick Down arrived to become the hitting coach and the star-studded O’s set the then-major league single-season homer record with 257 home runs. Down, who died last weekend...
The Orioles, seeking to maximize their lease on one of baseball’s most popular stadiums, are breaking with more than 25 years of team tradition by holding a concert at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on July 26 featuring singer Billy Joel. The longtime baseball-only venue will join other iconic ballparks...
Former Orioles infielder Tim Beckham signed a one-year deal with the Seattle Mariners on Thursday, according to multiple reports. Beckham was not tendered a contract by the new Orioles regime at the deadline to do so for arbitration-eligible players. The team decided his estimated $4.3 million...
Former Orioles closer Zach Britton's Saturday-night agreement with the New York Yankees gives the onetime All-Star a familiar landing spot, the same place the Orioles sent him in July as part of last summer's teardown. And even if it's on the longer end of the unique contract structure that could...
The Orioles’ first piece of business in 2019 was one that new executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias has said was a priority since his arrival in November: bringing in someone to lead the club’s under-utilized international scouting operation. On Wednesday, he tapped Cleveland...
The Orioles' 2018 season earned one last bit of ignominy before a new year begins Tuesday. According to the data at FiveThirtyEight, the Orioles' 47-115 season that netted them the No. 1 pick in next summer's MLB draft wasn't only the worst in baseball, but the worst in all of sports last year....
It’s easy enough to put the Orioles’ abysmal 2018 season into its proper perspective. It was a historically bad end to the brief renaissance that proved it is possible to compete in the big-money American League East in one of Major League Baseball’s smaller markets. Now, we’re going to find out...
Former Orioles great Cal Ripken Jr. was magical on the field and is now spending this weekend at “The most magical place on Earth.” Ripken will be the celebrity narrator of the biblical Christmas story tonight for the final candlelight processional at Disney World, according to Disney’s website....
When some Orioles fans read this month that rapper and longtime Yankees hat devotee Jay-Z was becoming partial owner of the Orioles, excitement and confusion ensued. The rumor originated with a satire sports website The Eye Test, which published an article Dec. 9 ribbing Jay-Z as new part-owner...