John Eisenberg presents historic Baltimore baseball interviews. And some other stuff.
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Bird Tapes Mini-Pod: What I Wrote On Deadline About The Jeffrey Maier Incident
Occasionally over the years, a reader has innocently asked me if I was there at Camden Yards on the night Cal Ripken Jr. set baseball’s all-time Ironman record.
For a long time, my stock reply was kind of smart-alecky. But I couldn’t help...
Bird Tapes Podcast: Richie Bancells Chronicles His Four Decades With The Orioles
Few people, if any, have worked for the club longer. In a revealing interview, he recalls Cal Ripken’s inquisitiveness, Eric Davis' cancer, the legendary trainers who preceded him and much more.
In the Orioles’ first 63 years in Baltimore,...
Classic Card: Billy Ripken, 1989
During my recent Bird Tapes Podcast interview with Billy Ripken, I asked him about his infamous 1989 baseball card with the expletive scrawled on the bottom of the bat’s knob. I assumed pretty much everyone who followed baseball, and partic...
Bird Tapes Podcast: A Classic Interview with Dick Hall
It took him years to find his path in professional baseball, but once he did, he used astoundingly good control to become an elite relief pitcher on winning Baltimore clubs.
During my 1999 interview with Dick Hall, one of the Orioles’ top...
Bird Tapes Photo Album: Baltimore's Blonde Broomgirl
Pirates third base coach Frank Oceak tips his cap to Orioles broom girl Linda Warehime during Game 2 of the 1971 World Series.
When the Orioles were at their on-field peak in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, every game at Memorial Stadium fel...
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I've written about sports for more than four decades, first in Dallas and then as a columnist at The Baltimore Sun for 27 years. I've written 5,000 columns, won 20-plus writing awards and authored 11 books, including two on the Orioles.
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