Jack Gibbons

Posts By Jack Gibbons

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: Orioles’ trade of Machado first step toward restoring hope and long-term healing

  Dr. Jon Simon was in his office late on a summer afternoon. He was there to discuss what an MRI revealed about...

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: Rob Hiaasen was a big man with an even bigger heart

  Back when he was working for the Palm Beach Post, Rob Hiaasen would tell co-worker Frank Cerabino that they should go out...

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: A father’s love might bend, but it never breaks

  My dad was meticulous about the work he did. There were no shortcuts. He might have invented measure twice cut once except...

• Calling the Pen

  Impressing a girlfriend with Brooks connection leads to lasting impression

  It’s embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t fully appreciate Brooks Robinson until a few months before everyone else did. That’s when the...

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: To be Frank — 1966 was my favorite season as an Orioles fan

  It was a sunny afternoon in early October, the kind that connects the fading of summer with the emergence of fall and...

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: 1983 — a very good year for the Orioles, and for me

  Every once in a while, a season in our life runs parallel with a season of a lifetime. It happened to me...

• Calling the Pen

  Calling the Pen: Diamond (Jim) in the Rough

  It happened so quickly. I was standing alone in the front of a department store when I noticed a tall, tan man...

• Baseball Essays

  Calling the Pen: To Pop Pop, baseball and beer

  I grew up knowing only one grandfather. He was on my mother’s side, and I called him Pop Pop. We spent more...