81 Year-Old Former Oriole

[OFFNY]

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Happy birthday, Jackie Brandt.

In the course of Brandt's 11-year major league career, he played 6 of them for the Orioles between 1960 and 1965.

Brandt's best season overall came in 1961, when he made the American League All-Star team in his second season with the Birds. He hit 16 HR's, had 72 RBI's, scored 93 runs, batted .297, and had an OPB of 371 for those upstart 1961 Orioles who went 95-67 overall.

Though his batting average and OBP dipped the next season, Brandt stil hit career-highs in both home runs (19), and RBI's (75.)

Unfortunately for Brandt, he was traded to the Phillies in December of 1965 ...... just before the Orioles won their first world championship, and began a slew of postseason appearances over the next 9 seasons.

In 1959, Brandt won a Gold Glove as a San Francisco Giant for his defense as a left-fielder (his teammate Willie Mays also won a Gold Glove for the Giants that season, right next to Brandt in center-field.)

For his career, Brandt collected over 1,000 hits (1,020), hit more than 100 home runs, (112), hit 175 doubles, and batted .262 with an OPB of .323.

The majority of Brandt's career home runs (86), doubles (128), and hits (710) came while he was playing for the Orioles.

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[Old#5fan]

I recall ole Jackie fondly and as a kid during one of my first few games I watched in person in Memorial Stadium he led off with a homer down the LF line near the 309 mark. ? also recall Either Al Kaline or Rocky Colavito homered for the opposition. Can't recall though if it was versus Tigers or Indians. Also recall funny story about how flakey he was as he went in to a Badkin Robbins ice cream place with some teammates and asked questions about all 37 flavors (poor clerk) only to decide on vanilla!:laughlol:

[OFFNY]

o

Happy birthday, Jackie Brandt.

In the course of Brandt's 11-year major league career, he played 6 of them for the Orioles between 1960 and 1965.

Brandt's best season overall came in 1961, when he made the American League All-Star team in his second season with the Birds. He hit 16 HR's, had 72 RBI's, scored 93 runs, batted .297, and had an OPB of 371 for those upstart 1961 Orioles who went 95-67 overall.

Though his batting average and OBP dipped the next season, Brandt stil hit career-highs in both home runs (19), and RBI's (75.)

Unfortunately for Brandt, he was traded to the Phillies in December of 1965 ...... just before the Orioles won their first world championship, and began a slew of postseason appearances over the next 9 seasons.

In 1959, Brandt won a Gold Glove as a San Francisco Giant for his defense as a left-fielder (his teammate Willie Mays also won a Gold Glove for the Giants that season, right next to Brandt in center-field.)

For his career, Brandt collected over 1,000 hits (1,020), hit more than 100 home runs, (112), hit 175 doubles, and batted .262 with an OPB of .323.

The majority of Brandt's career home runs (86), doubles (128), and hits (710) came while he was playing for the Orioles.

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82, now.

[El Gordo]

I remember Jackie, the guy they called the flake. Boy do feel young. I always thought I was older, but he's 10 years beyond me.

[DrungoHazewood]

Where was Jackie Brandt... nobody knows.

[Redskins Rick]

According to his wiki:

One of the most famous games he was ever involved in took place at Memorial Stadium on September 12, 1964. He drove in the only run in a rare battle of complete game one-hitters between Orioles left-hander Frank Bertaina and Kansas City Athletics southpaw Bob Meyer. Teammate Bob Saverine entered the 0-0 game in the bottom of the 8th as a pinch runner for John Orsino, who had doubled, advanced to third on a Bertaina sacrifice bunt and then scored when Brandt hit a clutch sacrifice fly to right field.

As a Phillie, Brandt was the last player to bat against Sandy Koufax during a regular-season game, striking out for the final out of the 1966 season finale.

Old MASN article from 2011 was also pretty cool:

http://www.masnsports.com/orioles-buzz/2011/05/baltimore-left-quite-an-impression-on-ex-oriole-jackie-brandt.html

[OFFNY]

According to his wiki:

One of the most famous games he was ever involved in took place at Memorial Stadium on September 12, 1964. He drove in the only run in a rare battle of complete game one-hitters between Orioles left-hander Frank Bertaina and Kansas City Athletics southpaw Bob Meyer. Teammate Bob Saverine entered the 0-0 game in the bottom of the 8th as a pinch runner for John Orsino, who had doubled, advanced to third on a Bertaina sacrifice bunt and then scored when Brandt hit a clutch sacrifice fly to right field.

As a Phillie, Brandt was the last player to bat against Sandy Koufax during a regular-season game, striking out for the final out of the 1966 season finale.

Old MASN article from 2011 was also pretty cool:

http://www.masnsports.com/orioles-buzz/2011/05/baltimore-left-quite-an-impression-on-ex-oriole-jackie-brandt.html

The last person to ever bat against Koufax in the regular season was an ex-Oriole, and the last person to ever bat against Koufax in the postseason was an Oriole.