Baltimore Orioles Scrapbooks : scrapbook, 1958 - 1962.

All-Star Game (Baseball) 1958 - 1962.

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New York Yankees (Baseball team)

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The club that became the New York Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901. American League President Ban Johnson wanted a club in New York and, after outmaneuvering the politically influential New York Giants, who did not want a competing team, Johnson moved the Orioles to New York. The first ten years of its existence, the team did not do well, contending for the pennant during only one season. In 1914, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston purchased the team. This collection da...

Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team)

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The Baltimore Orioles began playing in Milwaukee in 1901 as a charter member of the American League. They moved to St. Louis the following year and were renamed the Browns. They moved to Baltimore in 1954. From the description of Baltimore Orioles : ephemera, 1901- [ongoing] (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 44654674 ...

Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)

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World Series (Baseball) (1919)

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Milwaukee Braves (Baseball team)

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Maris, Roger, 1934-1985

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Roger Maris played for the Cleveland Indians (1957-1958), the Kansas City Athletics (1958-1959), the New York Yankees (1960-1966) and the St. Louis Cardinals (1967-1968). From the description of Letter, 1961, October 2. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 49562526 Born at Hibbing, Minn. His family moved to Fargo; Maris graduated from Shanley High School in 1952. Played minor league baseball for Cleveland Indians (Ohio), entered major league baseball in 1957...

Memorial Stadium

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Lidinsky Jr., Richard A. donor.

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Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

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George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland to Katherine and George Herman Ruth Sr. In 1902, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage and reformatory, at the age of seven to teach him discipline. It was here that he learned to play baseball. He signed a contract with the minor league Baltimore Orioles in 1914. Ruth received his nickname "Babe" when his minor league teammates referred to him as manager Jack Dunn's new babe. He began his ma...

Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)

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The Cincinnati Reds conducted spring training in Tampa Florida between 1931 and 1987. The only interruption was for three years during World War II, when the Reds trained at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. From the description of [Spring training results, 1952-1959 / compiled by the Cincinnati Reds]. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 39007845 ...

Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)

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In 1919, some Chicago White Sox players intentionally lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. As compensation, some of the players received cash payments from gamblers. Rumors of a conspiracy circulated immediately following Cincinnati's victory, but the scandal broke publicly in September 1920. This series of events and later developments became known as the Black Sox Scandal. The group of players banned from major league baseball because of the scandal were Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, C...

D. C. Stadium

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