A little birdie told me that today was the 36th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 700th career home run. That got me to wondering: how many did he hit off of former Orioles pitchers? (Well, somebody has to wonder about these sorts of things.) Of course, he spent only the last two years of his great career in the American League, with the Brewers. So he only hit two home runs against the O's; #743 came against Dyar Miller, and #747 was clouted at the expense of Mike Cuellar. But against pitchers who took the mound for the Birds at some point in their careers, Hammerin' Hank had a few more tape measure shots. If I haven't missed anyone, Aaron belted 88 of his 755 homers against one-time O's. Take heart, though. Two Orioles (Don Ferrarese and Jim Palmer) held the Hammer homerless in 14 at-bats, the best performance by any former Baltimore hurlers. Here's Hank's victim list, filtered down to my Oriole-centric criteria:Mike McCormick - 9
Robin Roberts - 9
Harvey Haddix - 7
Nelson Briles - 6
Jack Fisher - 6
Mike Cuellar - 5
Ken Holtzman - 4
Stu Miller - 4
Billy O'Dell - 4
Milt Pappas - 4
Pat Dobson - 3
Sam Jones - 3
Hal Brown - 2
John Buzhardt - 2
Grant Jackson - 2
Billy Loes - 2
Mike Torrez - 2
Doyle Alexander - 1
Moe Drabowsky - 1
Dick Drago - 1
Ross Grimsley - 1
Paul Hartzell - 1
Billy Hoeft - 1
Gordon Jones - 1
Don Larsen - 1
Dick Littlefield - 1
Bob Mabe - 1
Dyar Miller - 1
Orlando Pena -1
Eddie Watt - 1 (a grand slam in their only meeting!)
Hoyt Wilhelm - 1
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