The year is 1969... I go off to my first (and only) year at sleep-away camp. I am nine years old. I remember my father would write me a letter EVERY DAY from work... He would chit-chat about things going on but mostly it was about the O's:
"Well, the Orioles won again last night." He would tell me who had pitched, who hit a homer and he would give me the team's overall record. I remember being so excited about the team and how many games they had won. When I got home from camp, naturally I started to follow them for myself. Do you older fellows remember the way the Baltimore Sun would report the score in the morning paper? There was a little box at the bottom of the front page of the paper... if the O's won, the cartoon bird was celebrating. But if they lost, a little sad cartoon bird in an awkward losing position, with a quick re-cap of what had transpired. That way, readership could get an idea of what happened the night before, without even even cracking open the paper...
I was hooked, and have been a diehard O's fan ever since. And I still get the Sun, just so I can read about my O's...
