Dan Connolly

Know Your O’s: Mark Trumbo on baseball, drums and guitars

This weekend, with the orioles playing the Los Angeles Angels, Mark Trumbo had a chance to go back to the Anaheim area, where he grew up.

Trumbo, who is absolutely killing the ball in his first year with the Orioles, was a baseball star in high school – but many scouts saw him as a future major-league pitcher.

In our latest installment of “Know Your O’s” he explains why that didn’t happen and what it was like to play for his hometown team. And also what it means for Los Angeles to get a NFL team again.

Had some technical difficulties on this one, so Mark was patient enough to do it twice, and we spliced it together. So think of it as bonus Trumbo.

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Trumbo gives his nod to West Coast staple, In-N-Out Burger, and, locally, to a well-known Baltimore restaurant. He also goes into his passion for music, his experience playing the drums and his love for collecting, buying and selling guitars.

It’s worth sticking around until the end to see who he would have front his Orioles-based, classic rock band.

Enjoy.

Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly has spent more than two decades as a print journalist in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Baltimore native and Calvert Hall graduate first covered the Orioles as a beat writer for the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record in 2001 before becoming The Baltimore Sun’s national baseball writer/Orioles reporter in 2005. He has won multiple state and national writing awards, including several from the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2013 he was named Maryland Co-Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. And in 2015, he authored his first book, "100 Things Orioles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." He lives in York, with his wife, Karen, and three children, Alex, Annie, and Grace.

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