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Baseball Hall of Famers Go to Bat to Keep Kids Safe

Earlier this week, almost two dozen baseball legends, including two brand-name Hall of Famers, gathered in Huntington Beach, Calif., to lend their support to an organization that goes to bat for kids. KinderVision, founded in 1991, was developed by Doug Sebastian, with the assistance of law enforcement and other experts,...

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...

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06/01/12 Round and round: traffic circle suggested at busy Park... Source: The Park Record - Park City UT Park City leaders and state transportation officials might go round and round as they debate some of the ideas that have been broached for a busy stretch of S.R. 224 inside the city limits.
06/01/12 Roadwork alert: S.R. 224 will soon be torn up through... Source: The Park Record - Park City UT Two of the busiest stretches of road in Park City will be torn up by crews hired by state transportation officials starting next week, a repaving project on key arteries that will create traffic headaches for people across the city.
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.
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.

Background on brooks robinson

Brooks Calbert Robinson, Jr. (born May 18, 1937) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire 23-year major league career for the Baltimore Orioles (1955–1977).

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