-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

Unfortunately, Brooks's teammates were not in such festive mood as the Orioles expired before the seven-hit pitching of three Kansas City rookie hurlers.

The Baltimore Orioles of the 1970s, led by manager Earl Weaver, were an example of such a " slugging " team that aspired to score most of its runs via home runs.

The seeds of long-term success were planted on September 14, 1954, when the Orioles hired Paul Richards to become the ballclub's manager and general manager.

Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.

The game also was the first time the Orioles were no-hit at Memorial Stadium.

They were followed by 1940s R & B vocal acts like The Orioles, The Ravens and The Clovers, who injected a strong element of traditional gospel and, increasingly, the energy of jump blues.

McGraw had also managed the Highlanders in their first two seasons, when they were known as the Baltimore Orioles.

After winning their division, they were easily defeated in the League Championship Series by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente, who then went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.

The Penguins were one of a number of doo-wop groups of the period named after birds ( such as The Orioles, The Flamingos, and The Crows ).

The Lewis-Clark Broncs were affiliated with various major league parent clubs, including the Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Oakland Athletics or A's.

The teams were variously known as the Senators, Dobbins, Orioles, and Phillies.

* 1969 ( Orioles – Mets )-Games 1-2 were preserved by the CBC on kinescope, while Games 3-5 exist on their original color videotape from " truck feeds ".

* 1970 ( Orioles – Reds )-Games 1-4 were preserved by the CBC on kinescope, while Game 5 exists on its original color videotape from the " truck feed ".

The others were the 11th-place Senators, the ninth-place Louisville Colonels and the fourth-place Baltimore Orioles.

The Orioles were a successful and influential American R & B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.

In performance, The Orioles were a phenomenon, with girls in the audiences screaming, fainting, and attempting to reach their idol Sonny Til in particular.

Left without the Orioles, Til picked up another group, The Regals, whose members were Tex Cornelius, Diz Russell, Jerry Holeman, Billy Adams, and pianist Paul Griffin.

During this time, they were often billed as " Sonny Til and his New Orioles ".

Following the breakup of that Orioles group, Til joined George Holmes ' Ink Spots, who were Til, Holmes, Ann Lawson, and Larry Reed.

The original five members of The Orioles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as early influences.

Dunn first achieved renown in 1914, when his Orioles were running away with the league pennant but losing money at the box office because of a rival Federal League team in town purporting to be a major league club.

The Orioles led the game 3 – 0 after three innings of play.

The Orioles started off the first couple weeks of the season near the top of their division as players such as Nick Markakis and newcomer Luke Scott led the team offensively.

Since its introduction at games by the " Roar from 34 ", led by Wild Bill Hagy and others, in the late 1970s, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to yell out the " Oh " in the line " Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave " in " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

" Nonetheless, Anderson led the Reds to 102 wins and the National League pennant in, although they lost the 1970 World Series in five games to the Baltimore Orioles.

In 1969, he led the " Miracle Mets " to the World Series championship, defeating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles ; after losing Game 1, they came back for four straight victories, including two by 2-1 scores.

In only his first season as a full-time player in, Anderson played in all but three of the Orioles games and led the major leagues with 749 plate appearances.

He also led the Orioles in eight offensive categories, including runs scored ( 87 ), stolen bases ( 24 ), walks ( 82 ), triples ( 8 ), and extra base hits ( 57 ).

Anderson also hit 37 doubles and five triples and led the American League in extra base hits with 92, breaking the Orioles club record previously held by Cal Ripken, Jr.

Despite playing most of the 1997 season with a broken rib, Anderson led the Orioles to a wire-to-wire American League East title with a record of 98-64.

Anderson led the Orioles in 13 offensive categories: batting average (. 288 ), on-base percentage (. 393 ), OPS (. 862 ), plate appearances ( 696 ), runs scored ( 97 ), hits ( 170 ), doubles ( 39 ), triples ( 7 ), walks ( 84 ), stolen bases ( 18 ), and extra base hits ( tied with Rafael Palmeiro-64 ).

Lolich had a 17-9 record with 197 strikeouts, as the Tigers led from start to finish to win the American League pennant by 12 games over the second-place Baltimore Orioles.

He hit a rare home run in the first American League Championship Series game ever played in 1969, and after uncharacteristically hitting. 333 in the 1970 ALCS, his contributions led to the Orioles ' 1970 World Series victory, the team's second title in five years ; he caught a line drive to end a 4-3 victory in Game 1 with the tying run on first base, and had an assist to end Game 3.

He led the Orioles from its establishment until his death in 1981 of heart failure, complicated by diabetes.

He led the league in wins ( 23 ) for the second year in a row, and also led the league in innings pitched ( 328 ) and complete games ( 30 ) to finish second to the Baltimore Orioles ' Jim Palmer in the American League Cy Young balloting.

Johnson won the American League's Manager of the Year Award in 1997 when he led the Baltimore Orioles wire-to-wire to the American League East Division Championship.

In the 1973 American League Championship Series, in which the A's defeated the Baltimore Orioles, he led off Game 2 with a home run, and won Game 3 with a leadoff home run in the 11th inning ; in Game 7 of that year's World Series against the New York Mets, both he and Reggie Jackson hit two-run home runs in the third inning off Jon Matlack — the only two home runs Oakland would hit the entire series.

These Orioles teams, led by John McGraw, were known to break the rules in order to win, including tampering with their bats and the playing field.

McGinnity compiled a 26 – 20 record for the 1901 Orioles, and his 48 games, 39 complete games, and 382 innings pitched led the AL.

In, Smith set a National League ( NL ) record with 47 saves for the St. Louis Cardinals, and was runner-up for the league's Cy Young Award ; it was the second of three times he led the NL in saves, and he later led the American League ( AL ) once while with the Baltimore Orioles in.

In his last years as mayor, and later during his two terms as governor, Schaefer led the push to build Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the Orioles and M & T Bank Stadium for a new NFL team, which came to fruition in 1996 when Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, giving credit to Schaefer for the transaction: