2021 Orioles Hall of Fame Inductees Announced: JJ Hardy, Mike Devereaux and Joe Angel. Plus Mo Gaba will be honored as a 2020 Inductee.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

This is very cool and glad to see Mo Gaba getting recognized with the fans coming back to attend games this year.  

 

[HowAboutThat]

I miss Joe Angel.

”FLYBALLHOMERUN” So many times he said it at the crack of the bat without following the flight of the ball, I wonder if he was ever wrong?

[emmett16]

Devo!  My favorite Oriole growing up.  I loved watcing him rob home runs.  

 

 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

4 minutes ago, emmett16 said:

Devo!  My favorite Oriole growing up.  I loved watcing him rob home runs.  

 

 

I was at that game and remember back when every game at OPACY had 40,000+ fans in attendance. Special times. 

[scOtt]

2 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

I was at that game and remember back when every game at OPACY had 40,000+ fans in attendance. Special times. 

I remember watching that game on TV. Camera was following the flight of the ball, and at the VERY last moment Devo came flying into the picture and made this leap that almost defied human physics. Came down with the ball. Unbelievable catch!

[Sports Guy]

My first thought was Devo shouldn’t be in but he was worth 13 WAR with the Os.  That’s probably good enough, especially with how they do it.

 

[Moshagge3]

I'm surprised that Devo wasn't already in, honestly. Shows how much I'm paying attention.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

I was at that game and remember back when every game at OPACY had 40,000+ fans in attendance. Special times. 

I was there too.   Best catch I ever saw in person.   And still maybe the best ever at OPACY.

[DrungoHazewood]

Devereaux clinched Oriole Hall of Fame-dom with this one swing.  I was working at Roy Rogers the summer before my freshman year in college, so I didn't see it live, but on the way home the radio guys were still in disbelief hours later.

[Sports Guy]

I remember that game.  

[interloper]

How long until Markakis can get in? 

[DrungoHazewood]

So not to downplay Devereaux' two big moments or his place on the Why Not? team, but he's solidly in the gray area for Orioles Hall of Fame induction.  He had two very good years, one year that was average, and three pretty poor seasons with the Orioles.

You could argue that Merv Rettenmund was a more deserving choice, and he's not that much different that Bob Nieman or Jackie Brandt or Don Baylor.  Baylor would almost certainly be higher on the pecking order if they hadn't kept sending him back to AAA to hit .330 year after year.

[DrungoHazewood]

1 minute ago, interloper said:

How long until Markakis can get in? 

It's the Orioles Hall of Fame, if there are rules nobody has ever read them.  They could put him in next year and nobody would say anything.

[OFFNY]

4 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

 

Devereaux clinched Oriole Hall of Fame-dom with this one swing of the bat. I was working at Roy Rogers the summer before my freshman year in college, so I didn't see it live, but on the way home the radio guys were still in disbelief hours later.

 

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A walk-off home run to left field against the California Angels ...... that phrase always reminds me of when I was in 9th grade in October of 1979, and John Lowenstein hit a walk-off home run to left field to give the Orioles a 1 game to 0 lead in the 1979 ALCS.

 

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[foxfield]

5 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

So not to downplay Devereaux' two big moments or his place on the Why Not? team, but he's solidly in the gray area for Orioles Hall of Fame induction.  He had two very good years, one year that was average, and three pretty poor seasons with the Orioles.

You could argue that Merv Rettenmund was a more deserving choice, and he's not that much different that Bob Nieman or Jackie Brandt or Don Baylor.  Baylor would almost certainly be higher on the pecking order if they hadn't kept sending him back to AAA to hit .330 year after year.

It is a franchise that unfortunately has decades of meh to wade through.  But I think Mike should be in.  Hell I'd vote Delmon Young in for one hit.