Posts By John Eisenberg
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79The Bird TapesRest in Peace, Henny
In Year Two of the Bird Tapes, I’m adding a series of interviews with legendary sportswriters who covered the Orioles back in...
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6.4KThe Bird TapesClassic Orioles Card: John Miller, 1966
There’s a reason why John Miller has such a determined look on the Topps card at the top of this post. When...
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11.3KThe Bird TapesBirth of the Oriole Bird
In terms of how they would present themselves to the world, the Orioles were a blank slate when they opened their offices...
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2.0KThe Bird TapesThe Orioles’ hometown hurler
As a moment of sheer baseball perfection, Tom Phoebus’ major league debut seemingly was impossible to top. A right-handed pitcher, Phoebus was...
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2.7KThe Bird TapesClassic Orioles Card: Billy O’Dell, 1967
Four years after they arrived in Baltimore, the Orioles hosted the All-Star Game before a packed house at Memorial Stadium on July...
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2.8KThe Bird TapesThe Beginning of the End for the Orioles: 8/6/86
It’s widely believed that the Orioles collapsed pretty much immediately after their World Series triumph in 1983. Within five years, they were...
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2.1KThe Bird TapesClassic Orioles Card: Gene Brabender, 1966
When the Orioles celebrated in their Memorial Stadium clubhouse after completing a sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World...
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2.3KThe Bird TapesSpirit of ’66: Moe Drabowsky set the tone for Oriole pitchers in their sweep of the Dodgers
I had to make difficult editorial decisions in 1986 when I wrote a series of articles for the Baltimore Sun about players on the...
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2.4KThe Bird TapesWhen the Orioles threw a no-hitter and lost
When he threw ball four to the Detroit Tigers’ Mickey Stanley in the top of the ninth, issuing his third walk of...
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2.0KThe Bird TapesClassic Card: Norm Siebern was no longer in the Birds’ nest in 1966
Of all things, the enduring influence of the New York Yankees led to a tall Midwesterner named Norm Siebern playing first base...