Little bits of trivia I picked up here and there...mostly there.

Bradyisms
 "It turned out to be not that difficult of a catch... But I jumped up so I'd get a few extra cheers."
-- Brady Anderson, on his catch Wednesday 5/20/98

"I would stand in the middle of my weight room with a fire extinguisher. The antique furniture can burn, but I will stand in the middle of my gym until the very end."
--Brady Anderson, answering the question, what would you do if your house caught on fire?

"The ball that I caught in the top of the fifth that made Cal's 2130th game official...and my blender."
--Brady Anderson, on being asked about his prize possessions.






Brady, Mike, and Cal pose for the camera - 2GQ4U?



Top Ten Things That Would Keep Brady Out of the Line-up
10. Arm flies off after toss to second base
9. Doesn't want to lose a staring contest with a clubhuse security guard
8. Faulty defibrillator
7. Eating eight pizzas after pre-game warm-up
6. Air-sucking Chest Wound
5. Some crazy story about meeting some nice folks in the tail of a comet
4. Bone sticking out of pants
3. Broken wheel on portable heart-lung machine
2. The embarrassment and inconvenience of having to hold his exposed gall bladder in place while running to first
1. A bad sideburn day
(Courtesy of Outside Pitch, May 97)
ok..so it's not very funny, but #4 amused me...
Single Orioles

Brady Anderson, 33
Roberto Alomar, 30
Armando Benitez, 25
Norm Charlton, 35
Scott Erickson, 30
Rick Krivda, 28
Sidney Ponson, 21
Arthur Rhodes, 28

I was going to include their heights and weights, but I figured if I couldn't also include their salaries, what was the use? :)



ORIOLES TICKET INFORMATION
MAIN TICKET OFFICE:
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
333 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 685-9800

TICKETS BY PHONE:
TICKETMASTER PHONE CHARGE
Greater Baltimore
Greater Wash, DC/MD
Greater Northern Virginia(410) 481-SEAT
(202) 432-SEAT
(703) 573-SEAT

Go to the Orioles Online Ticket Officeand see the view from your seats before you purchase tickets.

Nearly Useless Trivia Baltimore has played host to two All-Star games: the 25th was held at Memorial Stadium in 1958; the 64th was held at Oriole Park in 1993.

The Orioles have retired five jersey numbers: 4, 5, 20, 22, and 33.

People who own the Os: Peter Angelos is just the Managing Partner. Jim McKay, Barry Levinson, and Pam Shriver also own a piece of the pie.

Linkage
I found the following links to be helpful resources while creating this issue:
Cal Ripken Official Site
Ballparks by Munsey and Suppes
Total Baseball

The Orioles Online
Early Baseball Pictures on the WWW
The Sporting News
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Architects
Who is this adorable little tyke?*

The Scoreboard
The Sony JumboTRON video board measures 22'9" x 31'4" and is topped by an innovative incandescent lamp matrix game in progress board measuring 24' 1/2" x 78' 1/2", built by Daktronics, Inc. Mounted on top of the two boards is a large double-faced clock built by Triangle Signs, and two Oriole weathervanes.

More Nearly Useless Trivia
  • The Orioles have won more Gold Glove awards than any other AL team - 54
  • The Orioles have executed 11 triple plays and hit into 16 in 44 seasons.
  • As of the end of the 1997 season, Cal Ripken leads the majors in games played in the 1990s with 1228. No surprise there. Coming in second in the majors is the Os Rafael Palmeiro with 1206 and Joe Carter with 1201.
The Iron Man and Wonder Woman.
The Orioles have six minor league teams: the Rochester Red Wings, AAA; the Bowie Baysox, AA; the Frederick Keys, A; the Delmarva Shorebirds, A; the Bluefield Orioles, Rookie; and the Gulf Coast Orioles, Rookie.



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Cal Jr., at age 5.