[Tanner Scott]

7 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

That would explain why you feel a need to "shout" your handle. 

Quite the "needler", huh?  BTW, I didn't feel the "need" to "shout" my handle, just forgot the "Cap Lock" button was still on.  I like your handle and always look forward to your posts.  I like the fact you know what "can of corn" means.  The topic of old baseball expressions makes for stimulating conversation. I shoulda used a handle like, "Throwin' Aspirin Tablets"  or "Dying Quail". 

[Tanner Scott]

5 hours ago, bobmc said:

Very nice!  Now this is the "legendary" type of post that we have come to take for granted here at the OH!  Welcome!

Thank you. It is a privilege to post my thoughts here, among knowledgeable folks, like yourself.  Tony and the staff deserve a ton of credit in creating and maintaining this wonderful site, where we can speak freely.  Been an O's fan since 1959. so I'm a "geezer".

5 hours ago, bobmc said:

Very nice!  Now this is the "legendary" type of post that we have come to take for granted here at the OH!  Welcome!

 

[Tanner Scott]

2 hours ago, backwardsk said:

Tom House was influential.

Tom House is legendary.  He also, while a member of the Atlanta Braves bullpen, caught Hank Aaron's 715th HR.

[Why (and When) did You Become an Oriole Fan ???]

2 hours ago, AnythingO's said:

OK you two are testing me so maybe you're a few years older but I remember when some kid namedBrooks came up in 1958 and was pissed when Blog moved from left field to first base because I blamed him for Diamond Jim getting moved. I was also pissed when Pappas was traded for that Robinson guy. Oh well, stats on damned. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Gentile was traded to KC A's for 1B Norm Siebern ,straight up, in 1964.  Boog still played LF that year and I believe he still wore No. 16 then.  Anybody wanna play Oriole triva, since nothin' much is goin' on?

[Why (and When) did You Become an Oriole Fan ???]

1 hour ago, 21037dad said:

I was 12 when the Senators left DC, I used to stay up past bedtime listening to them on an old transistor radio hiding from my dad (who probably knew).  Toby Harrah was my man.   I was so mad I wrote my Congressman to complain.  That worked about as well as you would expect.  The next year I got hooked on the O's.  To this day I have not set foot in Nationals Park.  I don't forgive easily.

 

Dad

Good thing you weren't born sooner, or you woulda been twice as broken-hearted when they moved to Minnesota and became the Twins.  Harmon Killebrew, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher........I'm pretty sure Killebrew hit the longest HR ever at Memorial Stadium.  Hey, I sure can relate to this-"I used to stay up past bedtime listening to them on an old transistor radio hiding from my dad (who probably knew)."_ 

[Why (and When) did You Become an Oriole Fan ???]

On 3/16/2011 at 0:58 PM, El Gordo said:

I became an O's fan because about the time I was becoming interested in baseball, I was living in Baltimore, and they just got this new team from St. Louis. So I went to see them play at Memorial Stadium in 1955. My favorite player was Bob "the rope" Boyd, because he was the only one who could hit.:laughlol:

Damn, and you still have your faculties, lol!  No. 9, Boyd was good with the glove, too, not much power, little guy.  I remember, before we got Gentile, Boyd and huge Walt Dropo, No. 17, platooned at 1B, in what, 1959?  That's the year I became a fan.  Jackie "Flakey" Brandt was and still is my favorite Oriole.