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One Orioles fan tells how a missed encounter with the big hitting catcher Gus Triandos changed his life forever. - Here's another subplot in the build-up to what could be a free-for-all in the AL East this summer: Almost every team in the division can play the nobody-believed-in-us card.
- Aberdeen and Elkton suffered similar fates one year apart, and were forced to forfeit the majority of their seasons
- A look at what people are saying in reaction to the death of Hall of Fame former Orioles manager Earl Weaver.
- Here's a roundup of what other media outlets are saying about the Orioles:
- The Baltimore Orioles improbable 2012 success echoes the emergence of a strong team in 1960 — and a period of excellence that lasted more than 20 years.
- Fields Pharmacy in Pikesville is closing. "It's true," said Fields co-owner and general manager Jeffrey Levin, who said that the last day for the 120-year-old pharmacy and its loveable lunch counter will be sometime around Labor Day, or as soon as the inventory is sold off.
- Going through my notebooks after a rainy Tuesday at Ripken Stadium
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- Marjorie G. Gilbert, a retired certified public accountant who co-owned a Baltimore County jewelry business, died of pneumonia complications Feb. 13 at Sinai Hospital. She was 88 and lived in Owings Mills.
- Sports nicknames, a once grand convention of American sportswriting, have been downgraded to mere abbreviations or nonsensical appropriations. How long until China passes us up on this one, too?
- Charles S. "DC" Reed, former director of food service at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died July 24 from lung cancer at his Towson home. He was 79.
- As the events of the mid 1990s showed, shutting down government has negative effects.
- He has more hits than Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, a higher career batting average than Mickey Mantle and a higher postseason average than Joe DiMaggio. And it won't be long before Derek Jeter is a new lord of New York Yankees lore.