John Eisenberg presents historic Baltimore baseball interviews. And some other stuff.
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Bird Tapes Mini-Pod: What I Wrote When Camden Yards Opened
The Orioles never dominated Baltimore’s sports scene more than in the club’s final years at Memorial Stadium. They were no longer one of the American League’s elites, as they’d been from the late ‘60s through the early ‘80s, but they hadn’t...
Bird Tapes Podcast: A Vintage Interview With Ron Hansen
Playing shortstop alongside his good friend Brooks Robinson, he became the first Oriole to win a league award when he was voted American League Rookie of the Year in 1960.
When the Orioles fielded an American League pennant contender for t...
The Ace Who Came Out of Nowhere (From The Archive)
The Orioles’ acquisition of pitcher Mike Cuellar before the 1969 season is rightly considered among their shrewdest and most important moves. He immediately shot to the top of a rotation that gave the Orioles residence in baseball’s highest...
Bird Tapes Podcast: A New Interview with Mike Devereaux
His Baltimore highlights included the first home run by an Oriole at Camden Yards and his unforgettable “fair or foul” clout at Memorial Stadium. But it was his stellar defense that keyed his game.
Now that he is 63 years old and able to v...
Lost Voices: Duane Pillette
(One in a series of articles about former major leaguers whom I interviewed for my oral history of the Orioles more than a quarter-century ago, but only on the phone, depriving me of a recording I could play now as a Bird Tapes Podcast inte...
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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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