Title: January
osfan58202233 - January 22, 2008 05:59 PM (GMT)
January 22
1925 -- Bobby Young, a Baltimore-area native who played on the old International League Orioles and was the starting second baseman in 1954, is born in Granite, Maryland.
1925 -- Bobby Young, a Baltimore-area native who played on the old International League Orioles and was the starting second baseman in 1954, is born in Granite, Maryland.
| QUOTE (baseballlibrary.com) |
| Young was a smooth second baseman who rose through the Cardinal farm system and was bought in 1951 by the Browns, for whom he batted a career-high .260 as a rookie. When the franchise shifted to Baltimore in 1954, Young, a Maryland native, was the first player signed to a contract. |
osfan58202233 - January 23, 2008 05:18 PM (GMT)
January 23
1928 -- Shortstop Chico Carrasquel, who played the 1959 season with the Orioles and in one game was hit in the head with the bases loaded, forcing in the game winner, is born in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1946, Carrasquel hit the first home run batted in Venezuelan Professional Baseball League history. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949, "sold" to the White Sox, then in 1950 Carrasquel soon established himself as a top shortstop. As a rookie, Carrasquel hit for a career-high .282 batting average in 141 games and amassed a 24-game hitting streak. In 1951, Carrasquel broke an American League record by accepting 297 chances without an error in 53 games played. His most productive season came in 1954, when he posted career-highs in home runs (12), RBI (62), hits (158), runs (106) and walks (85).
Before the 1956 season, Carrasquel was sent to the Cleveland Indians in a trade that was to make room for fellow Venezuelan, Luis Aparicio, Jr.
Alfonso (Chico) Carrasquel Colón is a national legend in his native Venezuela. The Venezuelan Baseball League belatedly honored its native son in 1991, when the Puerto La Cruz baseball park was renamed Estadio Alfonso Chico Carrasquel.
sources Ted Patterson, Wikipedia
p.s. i'd love it if someone could figure out which game it was he got hit in...you know, if you've got nothing else to do :nice:
1928 -- Shortstop Chico Carrasquel, who played the 1959 season with the Orioles and in one game was hit in the head with the bases loaded, forcing in the game winner, is born in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1946, Carrasquel hit the first home run batted in Venezuelan Professional Baseball League history. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949, "sold" to the White Sox, then in 1950 Carrasquel soon established himself as a top shortstop. As a rookie, Carrasquel hit for a career-high .282 batting average in 141 games and amassed a 24-game hitting streak. In 1951, Carrasquel broke an American League record by accepting 297 chances without an error in 53 games played. His most productive season came in 1954, when he posted career-highs in home runs (12), RBI (62), hits (158), runs (106) and walks (85).
Before the 1956 season, Carrasquel was sent to the Cleveland Indians in a trade that was to make room for fellow Venezuelan, Luis Aparicio, Jr.
Alfonso (Chico) Carrasquel Colón is a national legend in his native Venezuela. The Venezuelan Baseball League belatedly honored its native son in 1991, when the Puerto La Cruz baseball park was renamed Estadio Alfonso Chico Carrasquel.
sources Ted Patterson, Wikipedia
p.s. i'd love it if someone could figure out which game it was he got hit in...you know, if you've got nothing else to do :nice:
Skipjack - January 23, 2008 10:22 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (osfan58202233 @ Jan 23 2008, 01:18 PM) |
| …p.s. i'd love it if someone could figure out which game it was he got hit in...you know, if you've got nothing else to do :nice: |
I couldn't find the answer but if you do a Google search: "Chico Carrasquel" "bases loaded" 1959 you get 3 archive returns at the bottom of the page and the most promising one is a NYT article about the Orioles beating the Senators and part of the article refers to Carrasquel being hit. I used to subscribe to the NYT archives but decided to save the money this year so I can't retrieve it.
osfan58202233 - January 23, 2008 11:17 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skipjack @ Jan 23 2008, 05:22 PM) | ||
I couldn't find the answer but if you do a Google search: "Chico Carrasquel" "bases loaded" 1959 you get 3 archive returns at the bottom of the page and the most promising one is a NYT article about the Orioles beating the Senators ... |
brilliant!
here's the play by play for the 7th inning, Os v. the Washington Senators, April 19th, 1959, first game of a double-header, in which Chico's HBP brings in the winning run - albeit not a "walk-off" and not the last Oriole run scored:
| QUOTE (Baseball-Reference.com) |
| Bottom of the 7th, Orioles Batting, Behind 1-4, Camilo Pascual facing 2-3-4 Scr/Out RoB Batter Play Detail O --- B Boyd Flyball: CF --- W Tasby Single to LF 1-- B Nieman Single to RF; Tasby to 2B R 12- G Triandos Single to LF; Tasby Scores; Nieman to 2B Al Pilarcik pinch runs for Gus Triandos batting 5th R 12- J Finigan Double to LF; Nieman Scores; Pilarcik to 3B Dick Hyde replaces Camilo Pascual pitching and batting 9th; Joe Ginsberg pinch hits for Lenny Green batting 7th -23 J Ginsberg Intentional Walk Gene Woodling pinch hits for Bobby Avila batting 8th RO 123 G Woodling Groundout: 2B-SS/Forceout at 2B; Pilarcik Scores; Finigan to 3B Jack Harshman pinch hits for Ernie Johnson batting 9th 1-3 J Harshman Walk; Woodling to 2B Brooks Robinson pinch runs for Jack Harshman batting 9th R 123 C Carrasquel Hit By Pitch; Finigan Scores; Woodling to 3B; Robinson to 2B RR 123 B Boyd Single to CF; Woodling Scores; Robinson Scores; Carrasquel to 3B 1-3 W Tasby Walk; Boyd to 2B Tex Clevenger replaces Dick Hyde pitching and batting 9th O 123 B Nieman Strikeout 6 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB. Senators 4, Orioles 7. scr/out = runs and outs on this play ROB = runners on base configuration |
thanks jack!!
Skipjack - January 24, 2008 12:01 AM (GMT)
Good work ~d! Thanks for finishing the query…nice teamwork.
osfan58202233 - January 26, 2008 05:22 AM (GMT)
January 26
St. Louis, Missouri.: Dave Nicholson, 18 year old St Louis sand lot baseball outfielder
gets a good luck kiss from his mother Mrs. Lawrence Nicholson.
1958 - Dave Nicholson, the strongboy from St. Louis who never overcame his propensity for striking out, signs for the biggest bonus in club history. ($100,000)
St. Louis, Missouri.: Dave Nicholson, 18 year old St Louis sand lot baseball outfielder
gets a good luck kiss from his mother Mrs. Lawrence Nicholson.
1958 - Dave Nicholson, the strongboy from St. Louis who never overcame his propensity for striking out, signs for the biggest bonus in club history. ($100,000)
| QUOTE (John Eisenberg @ From 33rd Street to Camden Yards) |
| Barry Shetrone: "He had a lot of talent, but they screwed him up. Maybe he'd have got screwed up on his own anyway, but at least let him do it on his own. They brought him to Spring Training, and he was scared to death. You could just look at him and know. Who wouldn't be? You're nineteen; you're the biggest bonus baby; your father got a scouting job and two cars. Now you're in a Major League camp with ballplayers you've heard of, and they start messing with your batting stance because you aren't making contact. The very first day, they had guys working with him. I felt sorry for him. It didn't make sense. They had to see something special in the guy to give him one hundred thousand dollars. Why change it right away?" ... Steve Barber: "Dave Nicholson was probably the greatest single talent I've ever seen. People asked me what I thought of him, and I said, 'I'd give him the money in a minute.' His potential was unreal. He was six [feet] two [inches], 220 [pounds], with a rifle for an arm. A real nice guy, very sincere person. He just couldn't hit the breaking ball." |
osfan58202233 - January 27, 2008 04:05 PM (GMT)
January 27
photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun via sfgate.com...wish i knew what it was of
1947 -- John Lowenstein is born in Wolf Point, Nevada.
from Great Platoons: 1979-1989 -- The Hardball Times
photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun via sfgate.com...wish i knew what it was of
1947 -- John Lowenstein is born in Wolf Point, Nevada.
from Great Platoons: 1979-1989 -- The Hardball Times
| QUOTE |
1979-80 Baltimore Orioles: Left field One of the all-time great juggling acts, exhibited by Earl Weaver. This wasn't a strict left-right platoon, as Gary Roenicke, by far the best defensive outfielder among the quartet, logged most of the starts and innings. But the lefty veteran bats of John Lowenstein and Pat Kelly were definitely getting most of the ABs against the toughest righthanders, and professional lefty-masher Benny Ayala (about whom Bill James at the time wrote, "They should call him 'Death to Flying Things'") was deployed almost exclusively against southpaws. All four did other things as well as play left field, but the Oriole left field was rarely patrolled by anyone other than one of them. The lines we see here are what they hit while playing left, and it was collectively a full ton, even though none of these guys ever established himself as a major league regular on a sustained basis, let alone a star. Anyone wondering why Weaver was considered a managerial genius need look no further than right here. 1979: Player B G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS+ Gary Roenicke R 95 279 40 70 10 0 18 46 45 58 .251 .369 .480 132 John Lowenstein L 37 109 19 26 6 2 8 19 13 25 .239 .315 .550 133 Pat Kelly L 22 66 12 19 5 0 5 9 10 9 .288 .380 .591 163 Benny Ayala R 23 63 15 16 4 0 6 12 3 6 .254 .279 .603 135 517 86 131 25 2 37 86 71 98 .253 .352 .524 137 1980: Player B G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS+ Gary Roenicke R 79 226 34 53 11 0 10 24 31 40 .235 .336 .416 107 John Lowenstein L 57 163 33 52 6 0 4 18 26 21 .319 .408 .429 132 Pat Kelly L 35 89 22 28 4 0 1 9 21 15 .315 .438 .393 132 Benny Ayala R 14 40 10 17 4 1 0 5 4 2 .425 .467 .575 186 518 99 150 25 1 15 56 82 78 .290 .393 .429 129 |
i do love the hardball times...:nice:
osfan58202233 - January 29, 2008 07:06 PM (GMT)
January 29th
1994 - Baseball's all-time saves leader Lee Smith signs a free agent contract with the Orioles. [At the time of this signing,] Smith has amassed a record 401 total saves over 13 seasons, 36 more than runner-up Jeff Reardon.
here's an article from The New York Times regarding his strong out-of-the-chute April following that signing in 1994:
1994 - Baseball's all-time saves leader Lee Smith signs a free agent contract with the Orioles. [At the time of this signing,] Smith has amassed a record 401 total saves over 13 seasons, 36 more than runner-up Jeff Reardon.
here's an article from The New York Times regarding his strong out-of-the-chute April following that signing in 1994:
| QUOTE |
| By CLAIRE SMITH, Published: May 8, 1994 Lee Smith has a look about him these days. A mischievous look worn by those who not only think but are certain they are enjoying a hearty last laugh. "I'm fooling all these people," Smith says, his eyes twinkling, his words cascading out in a good-hearted chuckle. "Got 'em thinking I'm doing something special here." Fooling them he is, if you're talking about all those teams and baseball prognosticators who pronounced the career leader in games saved a bad risk this winter. And doing something -- that he is, too. After 13 appearances for the Baltimore Orioles, Smith has 12 saves, tops in the major leagues. In a game that couldn't wait to throw money at the Ken Dayleys, the Todd Worrells, the Steve Farrs of the world, the bargain-basement Smith is turning out to be the biggest steal of them all. For $1.5 million guaranteed and another $1 million in possible incentives, the Orioles have bought themselves something none of their immediate rivals in the American League East can claim to have: a seemingly imperturbable stopper. The division-leading Red Sox, who once employed Smith, have had their top reliever, Jeff Russell, slowed by injuries in the first month of the season. The Blue Jays are foundering this season because their stopper, the injured Duane Ward, has yet to pitch and his substitutes have provided little relief. The Yankees? Just because the club has converted 9 of 11 save opportunities going into this weekend doesn't mean it's been easy. Jeff Reardon was just released. Steve Howe is hurt. The club that once utilized Smith for all of eight games last season but opted not to re-sign him is back to square one. Xavier Hernandez, brought in from Houston this past winter when more seasoned relievers could not be obtained, is now the nominal head of the bullpen committee. He has four saves in four attempts. Then there's Baltimore, with Lee Smith, a 6-foot-6-inch, 269-pound tonic if ever there was one. Entering this weekend, the Orioles had 17 victories. Smith had a hand in 13 -- with the 13th coming on Wednesday night in Oakland, a game in which Smith ended up the winning pitcher after losing a chance for a save when he gave up a home run to Troy Neel. For Smith, it was the first earned run he had allowed this season. The 12 saves are what has baseball abuzz, however. All came in April, a major league record for getting a dozen saves in so few games by a team, 23. Other Smith numbers have been just as impressive, such as the meager five hits and two walks he allowed as well as the 10 strikeouts and the .122 batting average he had saddled opponents with in 11 2/3 innings over the course of his first 13 appearances. Smith has done this all after having replaced the very popular Gregg Olson and having known that the Orioles courted a number of others before turning to him on Jan. 29. Doug Melvin, an Orioles' assistant general manager who championed Smith after the club failed to sign other relievers, said he saw in Smith a man on a mission. Said Melvin, "I didn't know much about his personality, but in some of his comments you could hear there was a challenge that he was putting out for this year. ' In those comments, said Melvin, Smith expressed annoyance that people were saying he could only throw 83 to 85 miles per hour and that the 46 saves he amassed last year somehow didn't matter that much. "He basically set a goal to show people that he could still pitch," Melvin said. That he has. Melvin, who recalls that he and the Orioles' general manager, Roland Hemond, talked about how they would happily settle for Lee Smith at 80 percent when contemplating signing him, now knows the O's have gotten much, much more. So does Orioles Manager Johnny Oates, who has otherwise suffered with a relief corps that, without Smith, sported an earned run average of close to 10 entering play Saturday. ... Oates's appreciation extends beyond Smith the man to Smith the pitcher. Thought to have powered down, Smith is throwing in the high 80's. Never wild, Smith is now downright wily, living on the corners, freezing batters. He has even dusted off a long-forgotten forkball that he now throws for strikes, something that has to seem patently unfair to major league batters. "If he wants to say he's tricking them, fine," said Oates. "I look at the tapes and he's making good pitches, that's what I see. He was always able to throw the ball for strikes. Now he's able to throw the ball in the strike zone wherever he wants to. Before, it was 94 miles per hour down the middle and take your chances. Now he just throws it 89 and on the black." ...[and then there's this interesting quote:]The wit doesn't draw blood, but it is sharp. Not even the Orioles are spared. "I've been lucky, but I have to tell you, when they brought me here I thought I was being sold at a slave auction because I went through every physical you could go through," he said. "I'm like, 'Hey, you forgot to check the teeth!' But I guess with the Glenn Davis thing, they didn't want to get burned again." |
by the end of 1994, he had logged 33 saves for the Orioles.
when he retired, according to baseballlibrary.com, he had 478 and also ranked first in games finished (802) and third all-time in appearances (1022).
GM team was Doug Melvin, assistant to Roland Hemond. nice sign, guys.
Sluggo - January 31, 2008 01:53 AM (GMT)
January 30, 2003
In his first year of eligibility, Cal Ripken Jr. becomes the 40th member of the Orioles Hall of Fame. The formal ceremony will take place on September 6, 2003 -- which also marks the eighth anniversary of the night Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record consecutive games streak of 2,130 games at Camden Yards.
In his first year of eligibility, Cal Ripken Jr. becomes the 40th member of the Orioles Hall of Fame. The formal ceremony will take place on September 6, 2003 -- which also marks the eighth anniversary of the night Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record consecutive games streak of 2,130 games at Camden Yards.
Sluggo - January 31, 2008 02:07 AM (GMT)
January 31
Are we claiming the earlier Baltimore Orioles as our own? Because on this date in 1971, the Special Veterans' Committee selected outfielder Joe Kelley (Baltimore Orioles, 1892-1889, 1902) to the Hall of Fame. In his 17-year career, he collected 2,220 hits and 1,194 RBI with a .317 AVG and .402 OBP in 7,006 at-bats.
Gotta love the collars on these unis.
Are we claiming the earlier Baltimore Orioles as our own? Because on this date in 1971, the Special Veterans' Committee selected outfielder Joe Kelley (Baltimore Orioles, 1892-1889, 1902) to the Hall of Fame. In his 17-year career, he collected 2,220 hits and 1,194 RBI with a .317 AVG and .402 OBP in 7,006 at-bats.
Gotta love the collars on these unis.
osfan58202233 - January 31, 2008 02:58 AM (GMT)
wow imagine my surprise when someone started submitting his own items to the thread! cool!
i'm getting these from a book i got. for now, they're a bit sporadic, but i notice that during the season there are several per day to choose from.
it's a substitute for my "Born Today" endeavor of a couple years ago. i decided to do it in order to learn more about baseball in general, back then. this one will be a way for me to learn more about detailed Orioles history.
actually, i found the draft files on my laptop the other day from the Born Today posts from February through December. i guess i must've only decided to do the drafts prior to posting once i'd done a month of them. anyway, i decided i'd repost em as the year goes on. just to have them there. even tho a lot of us read them in 2006 when i had them on the old board, they're still interesting to read again, i think. and there are a few of you here who i think probably missed em the first time, so you *might* find them interesting.
anyway, i have no entry in the book for january 31st, so thanks for posting one for us. no reason why there can't be multiple entries later, too, feel free! :)
i'm getting these from a book i got. for now, they're a bit sporadic, but i notice that during the season there are several per day to choose from.
it's a substitute for my "Born Today" endeavor of a couple years ago. i decided to do it in order to learn more about baseball in general, back then. this one will be a way for me to learn more about detailed Orioles history.
actually, i found the draft files on my laptop the other day from the Born Today posts from February through December. i guess i must've only decided to do the drafts prior to posting once i'd done a month of them. anyway, i decided i'd repost em as the year goes on. just to have them there. even tho a lot of us read them in 2006 when i had them on the old board, they're still interesting to read again, i think. and there are a few of you here who i think probably missed em the first time, so you *might* find them interesting.
anyway, i have no entry in the book for january 31st, so thanks for posting one for us. no reason why there can't be multiple entries later, too, feel free! :)
Sluggo - January 31, 2008 03:31 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (osfan58202233 @ Jan 30 2008, 09:58 PM) |
| wow imagine my surprise when someone started submitting his own items to the thread! cool! anyway, i have no entry in the book for january 31st, so thanks for posting one for us. no reason why there can't be multiple entries later, too, feel free! :) |
**sheepish grin**
I didn't think you'd mind. You don't seem like that type.
Last year in another forum, I tried to do a "Today in baseball history" thread, but it got too ornery and I was spending over an hour a night on it, and then there was another guy who kept double-posting a lot of the stuff. But I got some cool links out of it. I'll do my best not to step on your toes. :)