The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

This would only be a prelude to 1969, when the Orioles won 109 games and easily won the newly-created American League East division title.

The next year, Boog Powell won the MVP and the Orioles won another 108 games.

After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.

In 1971, the Orioles won another division title thanks to four 20-game winners on their pitching staff ( Cuellar, Jim Palmer, Pat Dobson, and Dave McNally ).

Jim Palmer won the Cy Young Award, but the Orioles lost the division title to the Boston Red Sox and their mega-rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.

The 1976 season brought Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman from a trade with Oakland, but the Orioles only won 88 games.

The " No Name Orioles ", along with Rookie of the Year Eddie Murray, won 97 games and finished tied for second place with Boston.

After finishing fourth in 1978, the Orioles finally won the division in 1979 thanks to strong play from Ken Singleton and Cy Young Winner Mike Flanagan.

The Orioles won the World Series in five games by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Orioles won that game, and designated hitter Chris Davis received the win.

The Orioles won their 81st game on September 13, ending the streak of 14 straight years with a losing record, as well as ensuring that the team would spend the entire year with a record of. 500 or higher.

These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.

Once again, the Orioles won the A. L.

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 ).

The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games.

Fans kept their distance from the Senators while the Baltimore Orioles, to the northeast, won four American League pennants and two World Series from the 1966 season through the 1971 season.

He won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series ( the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles ), and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement ( he is currently ninth ).

While with the Browns / Orioles, the team saw well over 100 players reach the Majors, including Hall-of-Famers Willard Brown ( 1956 ) and Brooks Robinson ( 1956 – 1957 ).

The Orioles only won 54 games that season, while having 100 losses, and finished the season in seventh place.

The Orioles were coming off their third straight playoff series sweep ( over the Oakland A's ) and their third straight season with over 100 wins ( 1969 — 109, 1970 — 108, 1971 — 101 ).

The Orioles were led by star sluggers Frank Robinson and Boog Powell, who each hit over 30 home runs and drove in over 100 runs ; third baseman Brooks Robinson, perhaps the best-fielding hot-corner player in baseball history ; and pitchers Mike Cuellar, Dave McNally and Jim Palmer, who combined for 63 victories.

In with the Orioles, he had 42 hits through 100 at bats, and were it not for a pinch hit appearance in which he flied out he would have had a 21-game hit streak.

# 1919 Baltimore Orioles ( 100 – 49 )

The Nationals were a larger draw in 2005, the Orioles were a larger draw in 2006 ( drawing exactly 100 more fans that year ) and in 2007 the Orioles were a larger draw by nearly 200, 000 fans.

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 wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).

The Orioles also introduced a new alternate orange uniform to be worn on Saturday home games throughout the 2012 season.

In Baltimore, Orioles games on radio can be heard over WBAL ( 1090 AM ).

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 ).

WMAR-TV ( flagship from 1979 through 1993 ) and WNUV-TV ( alternating with WJZ-TV from 1994-2009 ) have also aired Orioles games locally.

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 ".

In 1902, after a series of disastrous moves that left the Giants 53½ games behind, Freedman signed John McGraw as a player-manager, convincing him to jump in mid-season from the Baltimore Orioles of the American League and to bring with him several Orioles ' players.

* October 16 – The " miracle " New York Mets win the World Series, beating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.

** The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the World Series, 9 – 3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.

* October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series in 7 games against the Baltimore Orioles.

Still, the Phillies lost decisively to the Baltimore Orioles in the 1983 World Series, 4 games to 1.

Fredric Michael " Fred " Lynn ( born February 3, 1952 ) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1974 – 1980 ), California Angels ( 1981 – 1984 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1985 – 1988 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1988 – 1989 ) and San Diego Padres ( 1990 ).

* During the month of September, 1980, Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver inserted a pitcher into the DH slot but would use a hitting specialist ( such as Benny Ayala or Terry Crowley ) to pinch-hit when the designated hitter's first turn came up.

There was a game on September 17, 1980, during which the Orioles and the Detroit Tigers both used the short-lived strategy.

The Yankees hosted the Baltimore Orioles on March 15 and 16, 1980.

45, 152 spectators watched the Yankees beat the Orioles 9 to 3 on March 15, 1980.

Michael James " Mike " Boddicker ( born August 23, 1957 ) is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles ( 1980 – 1988 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1988 – 1990 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1991 – 1992 ), and Milwaukee Brewers ( 1993 ).

With their victory in the 1980 World Series, the Phillies became the last of the " Original Sixteen " franchises to win a Series ( although it should be noted that the St. Louis Browns never won a Series in St. Louis, having to wait until 1966, twelve years after they had become the Baltimore Orioles ).

* 1980: Bluefield Orioles

Others who worked with Thompson on Orioles broadcasts included Frank Messer ( 1964 – 1967 ), Jim Karvellas ( 1968 – 1969 ), John Gordon ( 1970 – 1972 ), Brooks Robinson ( 1978 – 1987 ), and Tom Marr ( 1980 – 1982 ).

Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr. ( December 28, 1947 – September 23, 2000 ), was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels ( 1967 – 70 ), Washington Senators ( 1970 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 – 79 ), San Diego Padres ( 1980 ), New York Yankees ( 1980 – 81 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1982, 1983 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1983 ).

After being allowed to leave the Orioles via free agency after the 1980 season, May signed with the Royals as part-time 1B / DH / pinch hitter.

Bumbry was voted the American League Rookie of the Year in 1973 with the Orioles and was elected to the American League All-Star team in 1980.