Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson is home recovering this weekend, after undergoing abdominal surgery late last month.
In a statement sent to the Baltimore Sun, Robinson wrote that “the surgery was successful and I anticipate a full recovery.
“I have assured my wife Connie and my doctors that I will take it easy over the next few months. I thank you for the outpouring of prayers, compassion and concern.”
Babe Ruth Museum
For Immediate Release October 2, 2009
JIM PALMER, BOOG POWELL & FRANK DEFORD ADDED TO BABE RUTH MUSEUMS TRIBUTE TO BROOKS ROBINSON
An Evening with Brooks Will Take Place on October 26th at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Baltimore, MD The Babe Ruth Museum today announced that Jim Palmer, Boog Powell and Frank Deford have joined the lineup for the Museums tribute event celebrating legendary Baltimore Orioles third baseman and National Baseball Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson.
An Evening with Brooks, presented by the Baltimore Orioles and Crown Quality Gasolines, will take place on Monday, October 26th, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Tickets are available by calling 410.727.1539 ext 3033 or visiting www.BabeRuthMuseum.com.
As we prepare to celebrate Mr. Oriole it is only fitting that Brooks teammates and media members who witnessed him in action play special roles in this tribute, stated Michael Gibbons, executive director of the Babe Ruth Museum. Adding Jim, Boog and Frank only enhances our program and we are certain it will be a tremendous evening as we celebrate one of Baltimores greatest sports stars and people in Brooks.
Jim Palmer was only 19 years old when he played his first game with the Orioles in 1965. The high-kicking, smooth- throwing hurler was a key part of the Orioles six championship teams of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. His numbers include 268 victories, a .638 winning percentage, eight 20-win seasons and a 2.86 ERA over 19 seasons. Palmer pitched his entire career without allowing a grand slam. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is the Orioles’ all-time winningest pitcher. Brooks teammate for 13 seasons in Baltimore, Palmer was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.
Boog Powell played for the Orioles from 1961-1974. He began playing first base full-time in 1966 and was teammates with Brooks for 14 years. A powerful left-handed slugger who batted clean-up, Powell helped lead the Orioles to the World Series four times in six years from 1966 to 1972. He won the American League Comeback Player of the Year honors in 1966 while being hampered by a broken finger.
Baltimore native Frank Deford is among the most honored and versatile sports personalities in the country and his work has appeared in virtually every medium. He is Senior Contributing Editor with Sports Illustrated and can be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on National Public Radios Morning Edition. On television, he is a correspondent on HBOs Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and has worked previously as a commentator at both NBC and CNN.
The evening on October 26th will begin with a VIP/Cocktail reception, followed by a program honoring Robinson. The event will include tributes to Robinson from special guests, including former teammates, along heavy passed hors d’oeuvres, food stations, an open premium bar and silent auction. Sponsorship opportunities for the gala range from $2,500 to $25,000, and tickets are available at either $105 for the cocktail reception or $55 for the program only. While the event benefits The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, $5.00 from each ticket sold will be donated to the American Cancer Society in honor of Brooks & Constance Robinson. Event sponsors include M&T Bank, Continental Realty, MASN and The Winstead Family.
— www.BabeRuthMuseum.com —
CONTACT: Tim Richardson – Maroon PR Andrea Kunicky – Maroon PR 410.442.1221 410.442.1221 Tim@MaroonPR.com Andrea@MaroonPR.com
Baltimore police say four young men stole the 4-foot aluminum No. 8 that commemorates Orioles great Cal Ripken outside Camden Yards.
The four were arrested early Wednesday, about two hours after the theft, and the monument was recovered.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says surveillance camera footage shows the four men removing the monument and placing it in the back of a pickup truck.
They were later arrested in east Baltimore. The suspects are 18-year-old Patrick Reynolds, 19-year-old Jason Stonebuner, 19-year-old Matthew Rayner and 19-year-old Gary Parker. Parker is from Baltimore, while the other three are from Essex.
Guglielmi says they will be charged with theft and destruction of property.
UPDATE
A parody ad selling the monument is up on Craigslist now while it lasts.
WNST has been talking on their Twitter account the past few days about a big announcement coming Tuesday morning related to the Orioles.
Drew Forrester blogged about it yesterday:
This baseball franchise continues to languish at the turnstiles, unless you take away the 20 or so cash cows out of their 81 home game schedule — namely, anytime the Yankees and Red Sox show up with their legion of supporters and, naturally, opening day, where 48,000 people suddenly get orange fever…only to lose it by mid-April.
The Texas Rangers strolled into town this weekend and an announced total of roughly 54,000 (for all three games, that is) crammed their way into Baltimore’s ballpark.
Meanwhile, in Tampa Bay — you know, the city that doesn’t care about their team — 82,000 saw the Rays and Tigers play three games, including a sell-out on Saturday.
Even Pittsburgh — yes, Pittsburgh, where NO ONE cares about baseball anymore — outdrew the O’s this weekend, as they supposedly had 61,000 in PNC Park for three home games against the Cardinals.
Two disinterested baseball cities outdrew Baltimore this weekend.
I agree…it’s time to send another message to the Warehouse.
Tune in Tuesday.
This sounds like it might be a reprise of the Free the Birds movement that WNST owner Nestor Aparicio started a few years ago.
Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have acquired a script by Johnathon Schaech, Josh Wolf and Richard Chizmar that comedically explores an incident in the life of ex-Baltimore Orioles player Rick Dempsey, whose Little League coach turned out to be a bank robber.
Variety says the script was written with input from Dempsey, the scrappy ballplayer who was named MVP of the 1983 World Series.
“Our pitch was, it’s ‘Catch Me if You Can’ meets ‘Bad News Bears’ with a touch of ‘Bad Santa,’” Schaech said.
Dempsey’s coach, John Jennings, steered the team to a Little League World Championship in 1963, did time for his crimes and died of cancer after his release from prison.
Shaech, a native of Edgewood, was formerly married to Christina Applegate.
Related:
Johnathon Schaech on IMDB
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