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Brooks Robinson Conquered Cancer

Tuesday at a luncheon on the Baltimore area, Orioles Hall of Fame third basemen Brooks Robinson revealed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. According to the 71-year-old Robinson, the cancer was detected very early and he's now in the clear. After a whopping 39 radiation treatments, the best defensive third...

From the Windup: Booing Your Own

From the Windup is Matt Snyder's extended look at some aspect of America's pastime each Thursday.We're getting close to having three full weeks of baseball in the books. Astute fans know that it's definitely not enough to reveal the outcome of the season, but it's certainly enough of a sample to start drawing preliminary...

Introducing the Hall of Fame Classic

While these days the only thing the Cubs and Padres are talking about is a possible trade for Jake Peavy, earlier this summer the two teams spent their time talking about how much they hated playing in the annual Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown. You may or may not remember, but after dealing with too many complaints...

BrooksRobinson News From the Web

05/18/12 Happy birthday, Brooks Source: Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland MD That's right, good ol' No. 5 is 75 years young, a term the great Chuck Thompson used all of the time, and a term that, even as a child, drove me up the wall when Chuck would use it to send birthday greetings to somebody who had just turned 100.
05/01/12 Orioles Postpone Brooks' Sculpture Unveiling Source: RADIO / WBAL AM 1090 - Baltimore MD The Orioles have postponed the unveiling of the Brooks Robinson sculpture from Saturday, May 12 to Saturday, September 29.
04/27/12 Canal Place mule sculptor creating bronze likenesses... Source: Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland MD CUMBERLAND â The sculptor who created the bronze mule at Canal Place will begin commemorating Baltimore Orioles greats when the first of six bronze sculptures is unveiled today at Camden Yards.
04/27/12 And while we're at it, we're ... um, uh ... sorry? Source: Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland MD Sincerest apologies to Mr. Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, not only for the tardiness of this apology but for, perhaps, jumping to conclusions one or several times in this space as it pertained to the subject of statues.