If there's a silver lining to be found in our current housebound circumstances, it's the opportunity to spend more time with the i...

Tonight's late-night entry is blessedly just about baseball and card collecting. What a concept! Because I didn't post to this b...

As I alluded to yesterday, the combination of weeks or possibly months quarantined at home with no new baseball to watch is our new and un...

Oh, don't look so shocked. It took several things to bring me back to this blog after an unscheduled hiatus of nearly two years: a n...

Poor Pat Dobson. He pitched for the Orioles for two seasons, and had three Topps cards as an Oriole...and they were all highly unflatterin...

September 25, 1987 was not a great day for the Orioles. Playing out the string on their worst season since 1955 (at least until the follo...

To close out a mostly forgettable April in Birdland, here's a belated mail day! Late last week, I got an envelope from Max, who'd ...

My nascent Camden Yards win streak may have been cut short at three with last night's 2-1 heartbreaker , but that doesn't mean tha...

There are 501 cards in the promotional "All-Time Orioles" set, which of course gave enterprising collectors a card of each and e...

As you may remember, when the Orioles are playing especially poorly, I throw up the Eddie Signal. It's like the Bat Signal, but with s...

(Cheesy Photoshop alert!) I hope you could forgive my pessimism as the Orioles staggered into Yankee Stadium last Thursday in the midst ...

2808 career innings in the major leagues. Four All-Star seasons. A World Series ring. A Cy Young Award. 185 career wins, including four se...

One week into the 2018 season, Chris Davis has gotten off to a start that is...to use the scientific term, hot garbage. He has two singles...

Two disparate thoughts: 1. The Orioles' Opening Day win wasn't the only game on Thursday to end with a walkoff home run. Our old...

As I mentioned on Thursday, the Orioles are undefeated on Opening Day under Buck Showalter, with an 8-0 mark dating back to 2011. But it p...

There aren't many better ways to celebrate your 11th straight Opening Day start than by hitting a walkoff home run. That's just wh...

One. After a long, cold, impossibly tedious winter, there is one more sleep until baseball. We are 17 hours from Dylan Bundy's first p...

If you needed another reminder that baseball is a merciless meat grinder of a game, consider poor Yovani Gallardo. A 2010 All-Star with th...

How do you know that Jim Gentile was a beast of a man, intent on punishing baseballs with malice aforethought? Two bats. Not one, but two....

The Orioles' newest pitcher will need to find a new uniform number, because Zach Britton already has a strong claim to the #53 that Al...