Former Bulls GM Jerry Krause said the '60s, '70s, and '80s Orioles was the standard he was trying to reach when building the championship Bulls teams

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Krause told me once (and, I'm sure, others), that the Baltimore Orioles of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, which won three World Series and six American League pennants, were the standard he was trying to reach in Chicago with the Bulls -- a team that was a contender for more than a decade, built by Harry Dalton and Frank Cashen, and maintained by their successor, Hank Peters.

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/03/22/blogtable-memories-jerry-krause-chicago-bulls

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I seem to recall a Billy Beane quote that was similar.