John Eisenberg presents historic Baltimore baseball interviews. And some other stuff.
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My Stuff: Pre-Internet Research Tools
My collection of Oriole media guides
(Note from John Eisenberg: The Bird Tapes grew out of a shoebox filled with microcassettes containing old interviews with former Baltimore Oriole players, managers and executives. The shoebox sat in my...
Bird Tapes Podcast: A Conversation with Davey Johnson
He lived two lives as an Oriole, one as a player in the '60s and '70s and another as a manager for two years in the '90s. In an interview recorded in 2000, he explains how those lives were connected.
There’s no doubt why the Orioles zeroed...
Lost Voices: Marty Springstead
Marty Springstead pretends to eject Weaver from the 1996 ceremony at Camden Yards honoring Weaver’s induction into the Hall of Fame.
(One in a series of articles highlighting former baseball figures whom I interviewed for my oral history o...
Bird Tapes Podcast: A Conversation With Rick Vaughn (Part 1)
Working in media relations for the Orioles, he experienced a wild decade and witnessed plenty of history in the '80s and '90s. He offers his recollections in a frank and insightful conversation.
During a 35-year career in the Orioles’ fron...
He Writes Songs About The Birds
Barry Feldman in a recent photo.
When Barry Feldman was growing up in Baltimore in the 1960s, he had two passions.
One was music — playing the guitar, singing and performing.
His other passion was baseball, which entranced him in two way...
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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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