Posts By John Eisenberg
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766The Bird TapesThe Baseball Cards I Don’t Need
For a few years when I was a kid, I spent more money on baseball cards than anything else. I rode my...
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3.2KThe Bird TapesWhen Old Guys Ruled the Mound for the Orioles
Jim Palmer was so polished as a young pitcher that he wasn’t old enough to vote when the Orioles promoted him to...
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4.1KThe Bird TapesMike Cuellar: The Orioles’ Ace Who Came Out of Nowhere
The Orioles’ acquisition of pitcher Mike Cuellar before the 1969 season is rightly considered among their shrewdest and most important moves. He...
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4.1KThe Bird TapesWhat Dave McNally’s Oriole Teammates Really Loved About Him
While interviewing former players and team executives for my book on Orioles history a quarter-century ago, it became clear that Dave McNally...
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2.7KThe Bird TapesLost Voices: Steve Stone’s 25-win season for the Orioles
(One in a series of articles highlighting former Orioles whom I interviewed for my oral history a quarter-century ago, but only on...
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4.9KThe Bird TapesHis Home Run Traveled 573 Feet
The pitch was a meatball, a slider hanging right over the plate. Dave Nicholson swung hard, as always, and his bat met...
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3.9KThe Bird TapesSpirit of ’66: Wally Bunker
When I sat down for an interview with Wally Bunker in the Pacific Northwest in 1986, having taken a plane, car and...
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1.5KThe Bird TapesHe Taught Earl Weaver How to Argue
It seems like the easiest trivia question ever posed: Which manager of the Orioles barked and ranted at umpires so profanely and...
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1.2KThe Bird TapesWhen the Orioles Ruled the AL Playoffs
Given the disappointment they’ve experienced in recent Octobers, I fear it’s almost cruel for me to revisit an era when the Orioles always prevailed...
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1.5KThe Bird TapesBoog Powell Was Even Better Than You Think
BaltimoreBaseball.com is delighted to be partnering with John Eisenberg, the author and longtime Baltimore sports columnist, whose latest venture is an Orioles...