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Before "Moneyball" hit the best sellers list and before Brad Pitt brought Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane to the big screen, Dan Duquette's Montreal Expos were perhaps the first incarnation of the Moneyball concept.

The movie "42" omits the story of Baltimore sportswriter Sam Lacy, but Jackie Robinson himself never forgot it.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter played with and managed the Los Angeles Dodgers skipper, whose team visits Camden Yards for an interleague series this weekend.

The world of sport is one of upsets, results that defy logic: N.C. State beating Houston for the NCAA basketball title in 1983 or Villanova over Georgetown the following year, Larry Owings over Dan Gable in college wrestling in 1970, the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Spinks over Ali in boxing, Dodgers sweep A's in the 1988 World Series, even Giants over Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. But perhaps nowhere is the upset move prevalent than in horse racing

Washington is broken, except in one regard: the Nationals.

The former Major League Baseball pitcher "Bullet" Bob Turley, who died last Saturday at age 82, played for the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees, and his name also has a special meaning in the annals of Harford County sports and business.

Baseball returns to Baltimore but are Orioles fans ready to commit?

The Orioles chased David Price from the game in the seventh inning, then orchestrated a two-out, five-run rally against reliever Jake McGee for a 7-4 Opening Day win against the Rays, a team they outlasted to earn an American League wild-card berth last season.

Orioles, Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and Blue Jays all feel they can win American League East in 2013.

The Orioles are trying to repeat their memorable 2012 season. But the previous 14 teams to have a 22-win improvement in the wild-card era regressed the next season.

Crystal Langhorne Wilson Fewster and Lee May are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for March 17 to March 23

Orioles lefty Brian Matusz is hoping to springboard back into the starting rotation after embracing a reliever role and becoming an integral part of the Orioles sealing their first playoff berth in 15 years.

As we continue to poke and prod at the Orioles' competition in the American League East, it's worth a quick check of how these teams have been addressing their glovework in the offseason.

The American League East has long been considered one of baseball's toughest divisions, and that should hold true again in 2013. But it's no longer a division dominated by a couple high-spending teams and the occasional upstart. Suddenly, the AL East is being recognized for its depth.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- This morning marks the official beginning of spring training for the Orioles as pitchers and catcher will report to the Ed Smith Stadium complex here in Sarasota, Fla.

Ray Knight, Tara Heiss and Pat Dobson are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for February 10 to February 16

As Baltimore continues to celebrate after the Ravens win in the Super Bowl, it's worth noting that Baltimore hasn't had mutliple major league playoff teams in 42 years.

Jim Johnson and Jason Hammel got big paydays on Friday, and are set up for bigger paydays later

Timeline of the life of former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver.

Earl Weaver, the Orioles' irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting manager who led the team to four American League pennants and the 1970 world championship in his 17 years here, died Friday night while on an Orioles-themed cruise.

A look at what people are saying in reaction to the death of Hall of Fame former Orioles manager Earl Weaver.

The highs and lows since the 1970s when the football and baseball teams of Baltimore were both great

The Orioles have extended the contracts of manager Buck Showalter and executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette through the 2018 season.

The sting from the wrenching, bitter end of the Washington Nationals' first playoff run might have faded for some by the dead of winter, but not, apparently, for the man at the very top of the organization, not for the 87-year-old real estate tycoon who grew up in Washington rooting for the Senators.

It's a pretty good time to be a Baltimore sports fan. This is the first time since the Ravens came into existence in 1996 that both the Orioles and Ravens had season records above .500 in the same calendar year.

The clock is winding down to Friday's deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players, and the Orioles must decide whether to tender contracts to 14 players on their 25-man roster.

The Baltimore Orioles' first postseason in 15 years paid the team $2,124,312.75 in postseason shares.

Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray and Carroll Rosenbloom are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for November 18 to November 24

This season's Most Valuable Oriole, center fielder Adam Jones, placed sixth in this year's American League Most Valuable Player voting.

Lee MacPhail, former American League president, passes away at 95

Lee MacPhail, a longtime Major League Baseball executive who served as Orioles general manager from 1959 to 1965, died Thursday evening at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 95.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette, who engineered one of the best turnarounds in baseball this season by taking the long suffering Orioles to the postseason for the first time in 15 years, was surprisingly shut out in the voting for this season's Sporting News Executive of the Year award, which goes to the game's top front office executive.

The American League is supposed to be the offensive league, right? Well, you wouldn't know it by the combined performance of the AL teams in this year's postseason, which just ended with the Detroit Tigers looking like little kitties at the plate.