Baltimore Sports. Period
“I look at it like being in the right place at the right time,” Bill Swaggerty said of his time on the 1983 Orioles, “and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. If you could give me three more years in the big leagues, I don’t think I could give up my World Series ring.”
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Jim Henneman says former Orioles manager Buck Showalter was still the right man in the right place, but it was no longer the right time after the 2018 season concluded.
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Jim Henneman sees an unmistakable connection between Orioles rookie Cedric Mullins and former outfielder Al Bumbry and their paths to the big leagues.
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After making the trip to Cooperstown, N.Y., for baseball’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Jim Henneman reflects on the decades of debate surrounding which players are worthy of being enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
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Jim Henneman says closer Zach Britton — not Manny Machado — will have a bigger impact on both the short and long-term future of the Orioles.
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Jim Henneman recalls covering an exhibition series between the Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves in April 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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Jim Henneman asks if former Yankees manager Joe Girardi is destined to become the new Buck Showalter — the guy left behind at just the wrong time?
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Jim Henneman reflects on the career of longtime Orioles trainer Richie Bancells, who recently announced his retirement.
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards has become so widely accepted as “The Ballpark That Changed Baseball Forever” that Jim Henneman says it’s easy to forget how much initial opposition there was to both the location and the design.
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Jim Henneman recalls the 1952 matchup between Morgan State University’s basketball team and Loyola College (now University) — a game for the ages in more ways than one.
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