TOUGH TASK TOUGHER MAN Michael Locksley Has Always Believed Maryland Can Be a Big-Time Football Program
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PA GE NEXT BALTIMORE HALL OF FAME CANDIDATES 256 8.19 TOUGH TASK TOUGHER MAN Michael Locksley has always believed Maryland can be a big-time football program. Now he has the chance to prove it BY BROOKS DUBOSE | PAGE 20 Kenya Allen/PressBox VISIT BUYATOYOTA.COM FOR GREAT DEALS! buyatoyota.com Issue 256 • AUGUST 2019 Epic Events - table of contents - at COVER STORY Tough Task, Tougher Man....................................... 20 IN OUR NEW 4,000 SEAT EVENT CENTER Michael Locksley has always believed Maryland can be a big-time football program. 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AVEN COVERAGE S AVEN COVERAGE S FOLLOW THE RAVENS ALL SEASON LONG AT PRESSBOXONLINE.COM/RAVENS FOLLOW THE RAVENS ALL SEASON LONG AT PRESSBOXONLINE.COM/RAVENS 4 | AUGUST 2019 | | PRESSBOXSPORTS | @PRESSBOXONLINE ONE FAN’S OPINION Jonathan Villar An Everyday 3600 Clipper Mill Road Presence For The Orioles - Suite 300 - Baltimore, MD 21211 Stan “The Fan” Charles ney May 30, 1982 and didn’t sit out a game anytime soon would be a trade or an outright until Sept. 20, 1998. Folks, that’s more than non-tender situation during the offseason. Phone: (410) 366-7272 16 seasons of playing every game. The optics of a non-tender wouldn’t look - PressBoxOnline.com - he 2019 Orioles put to- Sept. 5-6 marks the 24th anniversary of good to a fan base that struggles to find good, gether their best stretch Ripken tying and then breaking Lou Geh- old-fashioned reasons to come to the park. Founder And Publisher of baseball from July 17 rig’s streak of 2,130 consecutive games, which It’s interesting that the Brewers traded to Aug. 4, winning 10 out Stan Charles seems almost as amazing as the streak itself. Villar as part of the package for infielder Jon- T of 17 games during that Since Ripken’s retirement after the 2001 sea- athan Schoop while they were in contention Vice President, Sales and Marketing span. That’s a pretty good son, the longest consecutive games streaks last summer. Though Schoop is a steadier streak of baseball for a John Coulson have been by shortstop Miguel Tejada, slug- defensive second baseman than Villar, per- bad team. Within the dol- ger Prince Fielder and outfielder Hideki haps Villar’s play had rubbed Brewers’ skip- Vice President of digital Services drums that set in for a team playing at 45-50 Matsui. per Craig Counsell the wrong way. win pace, it’s easy for individual accomplish- Jennifer Nelson Tejada played in 1,152 straight games Whatever the real reason for that trade, ments to become a large part of the focus for for the Oakland Athletics and Orioles from it sure seems like the Brewers’ management Managing Editor the players, fans and media. 2000-2007. It’s the fifth-highest mark of all wanted to dump the salary and the player, One such accomplishment came against Luke Jackson time. Fielder, whose career was cut short by allowing then-Orioles GM Dan Duquette to the New York Yankees Aug. 5 when infielder injuries, played in 547 consecutive games for get the better of that exchange. The return manager of digital programming Jonathan Villar became the fifth batter in the Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers and also included right-handed pitching pros- Orioles history to hit for the cycle. The other Glenn Clark Texas Rangers from 2010-2014. Matsui played pect Luis Ortiz and now-19-year-old infielder four were Brooks Robinson (1960), Cal Rip- in 519 straight games with the Yankees from Jean Carmona. Account executives ken (1984), Aubrey Huff (2007) and Felix Pie 2003-2006. (2009). Since Villar’s cycle was just the 329th Meanwhile, as that Sept. 5 date draws Julie Sawyer Dede Glassband Toronto Blue Jays infielder Freddy Gal- near, it’s once again a time to wrap your head in MLB history, it still stands as one of the Robyn Riter rarest of feats in the game. vis’ streak of 348 consecutive games played around one of the most amazing accom- The night after Villar hit for the cycle, I ended April 24, 2019; Galvis was just 2,284 plishments in the game. Let the numbers senior editorial adviser games shy of Ripken’s remarkable number. swirl around your head for a minute -- more was watching the Orioles from home when Bill Ordine MASN play-by-play announcer Gary Thorne The current leader is Kansas City Roy- than 16 full seasons of playing in every game. pointed out that Villar had appeared in all of als infielder Whit Merrifield. As for Villar, Not a sore enough arm, a case of the flu, a Senior Graphic Designer the Orioles’ games this season. (At the time, he’s yet to miss a game since showing up bum knee ... nothing could stop Ripken from Kimberly Shilling the number was 113). Thorne went on to talk in Baltimore. He appeared in the first 119 his appointed rounds. about Villar wanting to play in all 162 games games of 2019, and he also played the last I was there the night he literally was Cover Designer in 2019, a very noble personal goal and one 54 games of 2018. Villar’s consecutive games knocked out of a game May 3, 1982. It was Molly Blosse that -- barring injury -- manager Brandon played streak ended, however, when he only Ripken’s rookie season, and you can look it Hyde should have no trouble accom- pinch-ran against the Rangers June 6; play- up: Ripken was batting .138 when he faced Office Manager modating. ers need to record an at-bat or a half-inning the Seattle Mariners at Memorial Stadium. Leah Lancaster Of course, the talk about in the field to keep a consecutive games Right-handed pitcher Mike Moore was on playing an entire season streak going. the mound for the Mariners, and while we Staff Photographer brought back thoughts of Regardless, it isn’t hard to see know Ripken went on to win the Rookie of Kenya Allen the streak of 2,632 consecutive why Hyde writes his name in the the Year Award in ’82, this was a very shaky games played by the all- lineup every day. Villar pos- Ripken that came to the plate that night. Videographer time iron man, Cal sesses a nice combination Moore hit Ripken in the helmet with a fast- Matt Stovall Ripken Jr. Just of speed, power and flare ball in the 94-96 mph range, and Ripken went in case you had on a team devoid of dy- down. Interns forgotten how namic players. Seems Dazed and shaken, Floyd Rayford came Jordan Gold Gus Martin insane that the only thing that in to pinch-run for Ripken and stayed in the streak was, might keep him game to play third base. Ripken’s amazing Nate Puciato Ripken start- out of an Ori- streak would start just 27 days later, and the ed his epic jour- oles lineup rest, as they say, is history. • > Scott Rifkin > Stan Charles ard of > John Coulson Bo Directors > Andrew Levine PressBox is published monthly by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, LLC, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 300, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 (410-366-7272). Copyright 2019 by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the expressed written consent of the publisher. PressBox is a free publication distributed every month on the 15 th in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Printed by Comprint Printing. ComprintPrinting.com kenya allen/pressbox kenya Jonathan Villar @PRESSBOXONLINE | PRESSBOXSPORTS | | AUGUST 2019 | 5 Wheatley is the football team’s fourth head coach in five seasons. Last year, interim coach Ernest Jones led the team to a 4-7 fin- WITH BILL ORDINE ish overall (3-4 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic IN FOCUS Conference) with the highlight being an up- set win against conference champion North Carolina A&T. In general, recent years have been a far cry from the now distant days of With Key Coaching Hires And the 1920s through the early ’70s when Mor- gan State was a small-college powerhouse. This year, the home opener against con- Facility Upgrades, Morgan State ference opponent North Carolina Central Sept.