ernie banks
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Former Orioles pitcher Billy O’Dell, Most Valuable Player of the 1958 All-Star Game in Baltimore, died Wednesday of complications from Parkinson’s disease. - After a soccer fan’s dream summer, what is one to do now?
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- In 1958, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. Orioles pitcher Billy O'Dell (above center) secured the American
- May 13 is Negro Baseball Leagues Day in Maryland. Here's a look at the Hubert V. Simmons Museum of Negro Leagues Baseball at the Owings Mills Library.
- How do you like your baseball stories?
- The dawn of the baseball season is an existential moment. For big market teams with owners willing to pay for marquee players, and general managers who build playoff-bound teams, it is a time of great anticipation. It's also a time of hope, albeit dim, for those die-hard fans of teams who are off the playoff pace by double digits year in and year out.
- Sports Illustrated's "Baseball's Greatest" book lists Cal Ripken Jr's as the second greatest all-time shortstop, while Brooks Robinson is listed as the fifth-best third basemen in history.
- In hiring Braves special assistant Dom Chiti, who will likely be announced early next week, the Orioles brought in a knowledgeable baseball man who both Showalter and Wallace are familiar with.
- The Baltimore Redbirds hosted 20 players from the League of Dreams baseball program Saturday, July 20.
- It's Major League All Star Week so I thought I would take the opportunity to reminisce a little about the only All Star Game I have personally witnessed which occurred 50 years ago this week on July 10, 1962, at what was then known as D.C. Stadium in Washington.
