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Vol. I, Issue 3 Winter-Spring 2015 FEATURE ARTICLE At , two Jones’ will be twice as nice By Dorian Craft fter one of their most successful had already put up impressive statistics: eclipsed the 1,000-point threshold, which seasons in school history—one logging 15 games in -digits, she reached in a game against Severna A that saw the 2014 Maryland Lady including a 24-point performance, a new Park in December 2014. Next in her Terrapins advance to their First Final career high, against Illinois on January 18, sights? Big sister Bri’s mark of 1,812. “I Four since winning the NCAA really wanted to do it (score 1,000 championship in 2006, Maryland is at points) in the beginning of this year,” it again. Now Big 10 Champions, they Jones told Randy McRoberts of the are living up to preseason predictions Sun. “Now I’m working to with flying colors, on their way to their beat her, that’s my next goal.” second consecutive Final Four. “I think And although Stephanie may it’s humbling,” head Brenda be working to beat Brionna on the Freese said of the conference ranking Aberdeen Eagles’ career points list at Maryland’s media day in November, now, in the future she’ll be joining “you know, you haven’t even played a her big sister in College Park, after game in the Big 10 and you’re already verbally committing to the Lady tapped to win it.” However she added, Terrapins in September of last year. “at the end of the day, we don’t put Of her decision, Jones said, “The much emphasis on preseason rankings.” Brionna Jones has been an integral part of the thought of going to Maryland has been Regardless of what emphasis the Lady Terps’ unbelievable breakout season in the with me for some time, but I wanted to team placed on the ranking at first, the Big 10. make sure. I didn’t want to verbal too preseason prediction appears to be spot early, but I am delighted that I am going on. In their inaugural season in the Big to be a Terp.” 10, the Terps had 24 consecutive wins, a Who will have the better career new Maryland record. A big reason for and six games in which she has grabbed at Maryland, Brionna or Stephanie? their success thus far? The play of Brionna ten-plus rebounds. Only time will tell. But one thing is for Jones. After assuming the starting role in But while Coach Freese might consider certain—it’ll be fun to watch. only her second year in College Park, the Jones, “a force around the basket with sophomore center from Havre De Grace, the best pair of hands you’ll see,” Brionna – Dorian Craft is the Sports Director at Md. has quickly established herself as a might not even be the best player in her WHAG TV in Hagerstown, MD. She is a presence in the paint, able to contribute family. That title could easily go to her former ACC Champion softball player at for the Lady Terrapins from the low post younger sister, Stephanie, a junior at Virginia Tech. on both the offensive and defensive side Aberdeen High School. Less than two of the ball. Through mid-January, Jones months into her junior season, Stephanie INSIDE THIS ISSUE WHAT’S COMING UP?

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abe s irthday ash ebruary BATTING HELMETS REQUIRED! B ’ B B 2015, F 6 BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION (From left to right) Bruce Posner, Michael or the next three months, Ruth Gibbons, Brian Jordan, and Smyth Jewelers Birthplace Museum will be enjoying a serious 216 Emory Street, Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 727-1539 President Leonard “Buzz” Getschel pose as Mr. F makeover. The 40-plus year-old facility, which www.baberuthmuseum.org Jordan accepts this year’s Babe Ruth Community opened to the public in 1974 following a multi-year Service Award. Our Birthday Bash saw a great restoration project, will be ushered into the 21st Century Executive Director cast of sports stars, sneak peeks into the coming in terms of ADA and fire-safety code issues. Beginning Mike Gibbons Orioles season, and a great night of food and fun March 18, construction workers began in a process that for members and guests. will result in the main public entrance of the museum being moved from Director of Community Relations Emory Street to Dover, a cobblestoned lane on the north side of the property. John Ziemann By moving the main entrance, the museum will be able to provide access Members’ Night with the , March 11 to visitors with wheelchair assistance and to families with strollers, while at Chief Curator and the same time preserving the integrity and look of the historic Emory Street Director of Development Thanks to everyone who could make it to our Members’ façade. The new north entrance will open to a main atrium lobby where Shawn Herne Night with the Baltimore Blast! The Blast took on the guests can purchase admission tickets at a first-level ticket booth, and/or gain Rochester Lancers for the Major Arena Soccer League access to the second and third story levels via a newly installed elevator. Director of Business Development Division Final that turned into a real nail-biter. We are John Hein Public restrooms will be fully renovated and made ADA compliant, and grateful to the Blast for working with us to get such great playoff seats after a snow cancellation in February. More the building will be rewired and adorned with new flooring, fresh paint, and Chief Financial Officer historic, real-deal exhibits on the life and times of George Herman ‘Babe’ Scott Mattingly member events are on the way this summer! Ruth. The project is scheduled to conclude with a grand reopening ceremony on Friday, June 12, just in time for a three-game weekend series, Orioles Curator of Collections versus Yankees. Amanda Peacock Until then, be sure to wear your batting helmet…or hard hat, if you plan Membership and on meandering anywhere near the Babe Ruth Birthplace, which, of course, manda’s Pick Group Sales Coordinator Stories from our collections vault you won’t be doing unless you’re a construction worker! Sports Legends Patrick Dickerson A Museum’s renovations, by the way, will be delayed until later this year, keeping Object: Baltimore Bullets vs. Program the doors open to the public on its regular operating schedule. Facilities Justin Packard Date: 1948-49 Season Why do we have it? The current have to give a Newsletter Editor shout- to the 1944-1954 incarnation of the Baltimore Bullets. 1948 Doug Roberts was the only year the Bullets won a Association of America Championship, and then the team folded in 1954. But in 1963, the Mike Gibbons, Executive Director Bullets name was resurrected as part of the NBA. Ten years later, that team would move south and evolve into the Wizards of today. There isn’t much that survives from the Baltimore Bullets, making this program a Welcome New Members! rare find. Legends Club Eric Arneklev David Dannenfelser Andrew & Amy McLaughlin Gary Shertzer Why in this issue? To be honest, I’ve never fallen in love with Edward Arnold Louis Ford George Moerschel Jerry Sokolis basketball the way that I have with baseball or football. This program David Dopkin Charles Atkinson Frank Hart Alex & Lisa Molmud Daniel Weikle piqued my interest because it was from a game versus Boston, one of Kevin Fruman Connie Atkinson Chris & Kit Henick Gary Nengel my favorite cities (aside from Baltimore of course!). Baltimore may no Dennis Weinman Steve Bartlett Hilary & Byron King David Newman Manny Vendelis, longer have a professional basketball team to cheer on, but we do have Kim Belts Steve Krechmer Greg Oliver Harford Cleaners the opportunity to root for Mark Turgeon, Brenda Frese, and the men Jason & Ritchie Brino Joshua McConaha Lisa Roberts and women of the UMD basketball teams as they make their mark in Aaron Corkran Brian McDonald Melissa Rodriguez the Big 10. Go Terps! 2 The Sports Page/Winter 2015 The Sports Page/Winter 2015 3 Visit us Online! @SportsLegendsMD CORNER facebook.com/MDSportsMuseum LACROSSE ids facebook.com/MDSportsMuseum KLacrosseword PLacrosseuzzle word Puzzle The Ballpark Food Review How well do you know lacrosse? Try and find all eight words below. By Doug Roberts 1 Word Bank ollege lacrosse season is underway, salad? Sure. Go to baberuthmuseum.org, Helicopter Around Raking Middie Release and with plenty of Division One go to our Sports Page tab and have at it. collegiate weekend games between Besides brunch, Tark’s Grill also serves Crease Protector Face-off C now and May (mostly on Saturday) you’re lunch and dinner. The dinner menu has Across going to be hungry. over 15 choices ($18-34), two jumbo How about brunch? Not just any lump crab cakes (market price) and, if 2 2. Stopping the ball with the back of the stick and brunch, but one of the best brunches you ask, they’ll turn their Custom Blend 3 catching it as it rolls backwards (bad technique!) in Lacrosseville. Consider the weekend Hamburger into one hell of a bacon 4 5 4. When a stick is checked out of the player’s hand so it brunch at Tark’s Grill, nestled in the heart cheeseburger. flies across the field. of Greenspring Valley. Tark’s Main Dining Room serves ninety 6. ____ the world; shot where stick is wrapped around The Tark’s brunch menu features a diners; there’s also a Wine Room and a Bar 6 the opposite direction over the shoulder of the shooting dozen gourmet entrées, including eight egg and Lounge. Brittany, Kevin and Megan Baltimore’s BEST restaurants. dishes ranging from a crab omelet ($18), mix classic bloody mary’s. I like mine with hand. Yep, ladies and gents, it’s finally lacrosse to two eggs any style served with hash a shrimp in it, but I’ve been told they’ll season. So kick back, enjoy a delightful 7. One-on-one attempt to take the ball; usually at the browns and bacon, canadian bacon or garnish one with a pinch of Old Bay and a weekend brunch at Tark’s Grill at 7 beginning of the game, halftime, or after a score. sausage ($8), to bagels and lox ($12), or to stick of bacon. Seriously. Greenspring Station...and play on! 8. The circle around the goal which attack players can’t buttermilk fresh blueberry pancakes ($10). Operating partner as well as congenial enter. My choice is the astounding Lindsay’s host Bill Shriver reminded me that Tark’s Visit baberuthmuseum.org/sports-page for Chicago Chopped Salad with thirteen has its own Hall Of Fame Room. Go to the Lindsay’s salad recipe. Down 8 ingredients (including bacon). I get it with Tarks.com and check out what Brooks 1. Players call ‘Ball! Man! ____!’ to pick up the ball and grilled salmon—it could very well be the Robinson, Cal Ripken, Pam Shriver, – Doug Roberts is a volunteer writer and Created on TheTeachersblockCorne ar. ndefender.et Crossword Maker best salad in town. Did I say bacon again? , Artie Donovan and Ozzie editor who for 23 years reviewed restaurants Helicopter Around Raking Middie Release Crease Protec3.to Midfielder;r Face-o fcoachf will call out L‘____acros sback!’ewor dto P upreventzzle Want the ingredients for Lindsay’s Newsome have to say about one of for WBAL Radio. offsides penalty. How well do you know lacrosse? Try and find all eight words below. 1 r Across Down 5. Part of a goalkeeper’s gear; chest ____ e 2. Stopping the ball with the back of the stick and 1. Players call 'Ball! Man! ____!' to pick up the ball l WHAT ARE THE PROS SAYING... catching it as it rolls backwards (bad technique!) and block a defender. e 2 r a k i n g 4. When a stick is checked out of the player's hand so 3. Midfielder; coach will call out '____ back!' to prevent 3m s it flies across the field. offsides penalty. 4h e l i c o 5p t e r about stalling and the 30-shot clock? 6. ____ the world; shot where stick is wrapped around 5. Part of a goalkeeper's gear; chest ____ d r Answers 6a r o u n d o the opposite direction over the shoulder of the i t shooting hand. e e 7 he NCAA has changed the rules of the grand old game, lacrosse. Well, sort of. They have instituted a 30 shot 7. One-on-one attempt to take the ball; usually at the f a c e - o f f t clock. But it is not a clock that is employed throughout the game at the official scorers’ table but is started beginning of the game, halftime, or after a score. o only when the officials on the field think stalling is occurring. What’s the reaction here in Baltimore? 8. The circle around the goal which attack men can't 8c r e a s e T enter. Created on TheTeachersCorner.net Crossword Maker Helicopter Around Raking Middie Release Crease Protector Face-off Bob Shriver, Boys’ Latin Lacrosse Quint Kessenich, ESPN Lacrosse Analyst Across Down 2. Stopping the ball with the back of the stick and 1. Players call 'Ball! Man! ____!' to pick up the ball “My feeling on the shot clock and the timer is that “It’s a band-aid for a sport that needs more up tempo catching it as it rolls backwards (bad technique!) and block a defender. (release) (raking) 3. Midfielder; coach will call out '____ back!' to prevent lacrosse is billed as ‘the fastest sport on two feet’ action and continues to place a tremendous burden Last 4. When a stick is checked out of the player's hand so offsides penalty. (middie) it flies across the field. (helicopter) 5. Part of a goalkeeper's gear; chest ____ (protector) and anything that can keep that part of the game on the officials. It’s a slight upgrade, the fans can see it 6. ____ the world; shot where stick is wrapped around the opposite direction over the shoulder of the moving in the right direction is a huge positive. and the folks at home watching TV can see it but the Issue’ssh ooting hand. (around) 7. One-on-one attempt to take the ball; usually at the Lacrosse is a beautiful game and when it’s being game needs an official, real shot clock like in college beginning of the game, halftime, or after a score. played up and down the field with little limitations basketball.” Answers(face-off) 8. The circle around the goal which attack men can't enter. (crease) as to how fast the game goes the clock really helps.” Interviews for “What are the pros saying...” are conducted by Doug Roberts.

4 The Sports Page/Winter 2015 The Sports Page/Winter 2015 5 Visit us Online! @SportsLegendsMD BASEBALL facebook.com/MDSportsMuseum Listen In Getting ready for 2015: Spring Training Preview Baltimore Sports’ Untold Stories By Brittany Ghiroli from interviews by John Patti

he Orioles have had a lot of success a nice delivery, good secondary pitches. be offered back to the Red Sox. So, all eyes ho do the Orioles send to the So Eddie, in the in years past, Although he’s only pitched in Class-A ball, will be on him at this year’s camp as the mound in the bottom of the how did it go? T and they are hoping to continue that he has very good equipment and skills to Orioles will have to make a relatively quick 13th? A guy named . George Scott was the first trend in 2015. be a major league .” decision. W In a 2006 interview, during an hitter, and Eddie said the only thing that Baltimore selected a pair of Garcia sits more in the mid-90s in Garcia made a favorable impression at evening at Morgan State University saved him was that he pitched against Scott this winter, right-handers Logan Verrett longer outings and has a complimentary the Orioles’ minicamp in Sarasota in mid- A few words with honoring the Orioles on the 40th in the minors. He got Scott to strike out. from the and Jason Garcia January, but it can be difficult for teams to anniversary of their 1966 Watt got Rico Petticelli on a ground ball to from the . While both are keep Rule 5 pitchers on the roster. victory, Eddie told me third and Tony Horton [Garcia is] a hard-throwing right- From the “Evening with Dan Duquette” museum intriguing, the O’s got a player with the Last year for short-season Lowell and how that game fulfilled The first big league game I on a dribbling ground handed pitcher. He has a nice event on December 4, 2014 potential for some high upside in Garcia. Class-A Greenville, Garcia went 3-2 with his childhood fantasy. ever saw was Opening Day ball back to the mound. Fully recovered from surgery, delivery, good secondary pitches. three saves and a 3.67 ERA in 14 combined What are you looking for when you’re Eddie said, “Being very of 1966, and I ended up Eddie said, “You Garcia’s digits in this fall’s Although he’s only pitched in games (seven starts). He held right-handed watching 18-19 year old pitchers? poor growing up as a had never seen anyone pitching in the bottom of the instructional league. A 17th-round pick Class-A ball, he has very good hitters to a .189 average and struck out 9.4 kid, I never had me a any happier to end a in the 2010 first-year player draft, Garcia’s batters per nine . 13th of it. equipment and skills to be a major “So, if we were looking at the best pitcher chance to go anywhere ballgame than I was at dominant effort against the Orioles in in the history of the Orioles, say, Jim or do anything. ~ Eddie Watt that time.” He was elected instructs is what made Baltimore’s scouts league pitcher. – Brittany Ghiroli has been the Orioles Palmer, right? We would see great size, “I played in high to the sit up and take notice. ~Dan Duquette beat reporter for MLB.com since 2010. terrific athletic ability, a smooth fluid school and I started playing semi-pro Hall of Fame in 2000. “We saw him a lot,” executive vice She often conducts interviews and makes motion and an excellent command of his ball at 15. I played four years in the president of baseball operations Dan appearances for the Mid-Atlantic Sports pitches. So that answers your question. minor leagues and I had been with the Listen to the interview at Duquette said of Garcia at the Winter and changeup in his arsenal. His best Network (MASN), NBC Sports, and ESPN You’d be looking for players built like Jim club in spring training, but the first baberuthmuseum.org/sports-page. Meetings. “I think he pitched against 18 of chance at making the club this spring is in Radio and Sports Center, and was an All Palmer that have all the mental facilities regular season big league game that our hitters and struck out 14 of them in the the as a power arm. Because he’s a Big-10 swimmer for Michigan State. that he has, and all the great physical I ever attended was the game that I – John Patti has anchored and reported for instructional league this fall. He’s a hard- Rule 5 Draft selection, Garcia has to make abilities that he has.” played in on opening day 1966.” WBAL Radio since 1984. throwing right-handed pitcher. He has the Orioles’ Opening Day roster, or he will

ow many times have we started a A’s that brought Jackson and set up the another on the next-to-last day. Jackson, to win 65 more in the next four question with the words “what if?” deal with the Yankees. who said the Orioles’ rejected his request years for the A’s, Yankees and Red H Nobody plays the “would’ve, “I think we’d have won two or three for $1.5 million over five years, later said Sox, and Baylor was just beginning could’ve, should’ve” game better than more times if they’d signed he thought the O’s would’ve won at least to show the talent that would an avid baseball fan. It was driven home and had him in the lineup with Eddie,” five times with him in the lineup. eventually make him an MVP Jim Hennemann asks, again shortly after I’d written a piece about said my youngest brother John, as big The O’s weren’t the only ones to (ironically, in 1979, when the O’s legacy of the late , the former a Murray fan as you’ll find who was misread baseball’s first free-agent market. won the ). Orioles’ General Manager who passed intrigued by the damage the two Hall Of Jackson and his representatives (he had What if? We can never answer away a few weeks ago. Famers might have done hitting back- several) were also guilty of misjudgment— the “would’ve, could’ve, should’ve” Peters is best remembered for to-back in the O’s lineup. In his lone year eventually signing with the Yankees for questions. But it doesn’t stop us What engineering the 10-player with here, Reggie missed the first month while $2.9 million over five years, double the from asking. In fact, I’d bet that the Yankees, June 15, 1976, generally negotiating, hit .277 with 27 home runs figure reportedly turned down by the O’s. Hank Peters took those same credited with helping the Orioles win and 91 runs batted as the Orioles finished The Yankees, of course, won the pennant questions to his grave. two pennants and one 88-74, a distant second to the Yankees. in three of the years the Orioles came up World Series. Somewhat overlooked were The Orioles won 90 or more games six short. Jim Hennemann is a long-time If ? events preceding and times in the next seven The flip side to this scenario is the one Baltimore sports writer, the author following that left years (missing only in the never discussed. Suppose the O’s had not of “60 Years Of Oriole Magic” questions unanswered. The flip side to this scenario interrupted strike year of made the Jackson trade in the first place? (pictured on the right) and the It was a trade with is the one never discussed. 1981), winning pennants They wouldn’t have made that 10-player “Upon Further Review” column on Oakland the last week Suppose the O’s had not in 1979 and 1983, trade because (obtained www.pressboxonline.com. of spring training, made the [Reggie] Jackson finished second four from the A’s) was the key piece going to sending trade in the first place? times, being eliminated New York, but Torrez had just won 20 and to the once on the last day and games for the Orioles and would go on

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