"You Can't Kill an Oriole"

[SammyBirdland]

This poem is hanging on the wall in Buck's office. I hadn't heard it before, thought it was cool.

You Can't Kill an Oriole
by Ogden Nash ©
Published: The Home Team (1953)

Wee Willie Keeler
Runs through the town,
All along Charles Street,
In his nightgown.
Belling like a hound dog,
Gathering the pack:
Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
The Orioles are back!
Hey, Hughie Jennings!
Hey, John McGraw!
I got fire in my eye
And tobacco in my jaw!
Hughie, hold my halo.
I'm sick of being a saint:
Got to teach youngsters
To hit 'em where they ain't.

[Saintbird]

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Made this photo of it for anyone interested in using it as a background!

And here comes Sammy to show me up...

[Hank Scorpio]

I just ran up Colonial Drive in my nightgown.

[SammyBirdland]

I just ran up Colonial Drive in my nightgown.

Was that you I heard bellerin' like a hound dog?

[PaulFolk]

You can't kill an Oriole...

...unless your name is Scott Baker.

[ChaosLex]

You can't kill an Oriole...

...unless your name is Scott Baker.

Or Jon Lester.

[SammyBirdland]

Or Jon Lester.

Or Mike Gonzalez (does suicide count?)

[cindyluvsbrady]

This is AWESOME:):clap3:

[El Gordo]

You can't kill an Oriole but it seems just about anyone can beat them senseless. They just lost to the Twins masquerading as the Black Night(Monty Python).

[Dr. FLK]

That's pretty cool. He changed the words to a nursery rhyme (Wee Willie Winkie) to be about the Os. My daughter recites that nursery rhyme all the time. Now I need to teach her this version!

[Nigel Tufnel]

I had never heard of it either, until Gary Thorne read it in Buck's office on the pregame show. Pretty cool to think of the ghosts of the past O's hall of famers getting excited to welcome the team back to Baltimore in 1954.