Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

His Orioles would easily sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World Series.

The Orioles would finish second in the American League.

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.

After defeating the young Oakland A's in the ALCS, the Orioles would lose a heartbreaking seven-game World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Although Williams would hit 63 home runs in two seasons with Atlanta, he would only hit 36 homers in two seasons with the Orioles.

Altobelli would lead the Orioles to 98 wins and a division title thanks to MVP Cal Ripken, Jr ..

The Orioles would also fall in the nightcap, 9 – 7.

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.

That trade would become even more important on the final game of the regular season between the Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles, with both teams tied for first place in the AL East.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

From there, they went on to defeat the power-laden New York Yankees in a seven-game Series, during which Clemente batted. 310, hitting safely at least once in every game ( exactly one half of a streak which would be completed much more resoundingly eleven years later in The Great One's signature Series, i. e. the Pirates ' 1971, come-from-behind, seven-game victory over the Baltimore Orioles ).

His managing career would go on to include Cleveland ( 1975 – 1977 ); the San Francisco Giants ( 1981 – 1984 ); the Orioles ( 1988 – 1991 ); and the Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals franchise ( 2002 – 2006 ).

With the coming of free agency after the 1976 season, and with team owner Finley unwilling to pay the higher salary that Jackson would ask for, Jackson was traded on April 2, 1976 along with minor leaguer Bill VanBommell and Ken Holtzman to the Baltimore Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell.

After the 1971 season, McLain was traded to the Oakland Athletics for journeyman pitcher Jim Panther and prospect Don Stanhouse ( who would go on to have a few good years as the Baltimore Orioles ' closer in the late 1970s ).

The Baltimore entry sold their facility to the Baltimore Orioles of the International League, who renamed it Oriole Park and played there for nearly 30 years before it was destroyed by fire in 1944, a seemingly disastrous event that would actually begin the path toward Baltimore's return to the major leagues 10 years afterward.

With Ned Hanlon's Baltimore Orioles he perfected the " Baltimore Chop ," in which he would chop the ball into the ground hard enough for it to bounce so high he could reach base before the fielder could throw the ball to first.

In his honor, the Twins held a Harmon Killebrew Day in August, where it was announced that they would retire his number ; Killebrew responded by leading the Twins to a 5 – 4 victory over the Orioles.

* 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.

His rivalry with Luciano was legendary, to the point where the AL rearranged umpiring schedules for an entire year so that Luciano would not work Orioles games.

While managing the Orioles, Weaver hosted a radio show called " Manager's Corner " with Baltimore Oriole play by play announcer Tom Marr in which he would give his views on baseball and answer questions from fans.

As a pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles, Bamberger would teach his famed pitch, " The Staten Island Sinker ".

A high-minor league franchise in the Eastern League filled the void left by the Orioles in 1903, including local product and future baseball icon Babe Ruth, but top-level professional baseball would not return to Baltimore until the St. Louis Browns relocated to the city in.

A case of sciatica forced him to miss the entire 1957 season, costing him his first chance to make the Orioles.

Minutes after the final line of the Orioles win was shown, Evan Longoria hit a walk off home run, to complete their playoffs comeback and win the wild card birth.

The debate topics ranged broadly from the usual such as abortion and foreign policy to the unusual such as an incident preceding the then-current baseball playoffs, in which Roberto Alomar, the Baltimore Orioles ' second baseman, cursed and spat on an umpire.

Alomar appeared in the playoffs in 1996 and 1997 for the Orioles, although the Orioles were defeated in the ALCS in both years.

In 1972, the Orioles did not make it to the playoffs, but they were back again in 1973.

Dernier was a member of the 1983 Phillies team, which won the National League pennant but lost the World Series to the Baltimore Orioles, and the 1984 Cubs team which won the NL East but lost in the playoffs to the San Diego Padres.

Baltimore was expected to contend in 1998 after having made the playoffs in 1997, but Charlton's lackluster performance was a factor in the Orioles having a losing record.

After the season ended, the Orioles showcased altered uniforms, with a circular ' Maryland ' patch added to the left-hand sleeve of all jerseys and the grey road jerseys displaying Baltimore across the chest for the first time since 1972.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

A former American Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player, he was the starting second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles when they won four American League ( AL ) pennants and two World Series championships between 1965 and 1972.

Dwight Michael Evans ( born November 3, 1951 ), nicknamed Dewey, is an American former professional baseball right fielder and right-handed batter who played with the Boston Red Sox ( 1972 – 90 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1991 ) in Major League Baseball.

" Since 1972, the Orioles had been the only MLB franchise in the Baltimore – Washington Metropolitan Area, which he considered a single market.

The 1984 Series was Anderson's fifth overall as a manager — in addition to the 1972 Fall Classic, he had also managed the Reds during the 1970 World Series ( which they lost to the Baltimore Orioles ) and served as skipper during Cincinnati's back-to-back world championships in 1975 and 1976.

Oates was brought back up to the Orioles for the 1972 season, where he caught the majority of the Orioles games.

Curtis Le Roy Blefary ( July 5, 1943 – January 28, 2001 ) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Baltimore Orioles ( 1965 – 68 ), Houston Astros ( 1969 ), New York Yankees ( 1970 – 71 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1971 – 1972 ) and San Diego Padres ( 1972 ).

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 ).

He played with the Cincinnati Reds ( 1962 – 1967 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1968 ), Seattle Pilots ( 1969 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1970 – 1971 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1972 – 1974 ), California Angels ( 1975 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1975 ), and the Baltimore Orioles ( 1976 ).

In 1972 Asheville became affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles MLB team.

Ronald Lavern Hansen ( born April 5, 1938 in Oxford, Nebraska ) is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 62 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 67, 1968 – 69 ), Washington Senators ( 1968 ), New York Yankees ( 1970 – 71 ) and Kansas City Royals ( 1972 ).

Despite being humbled in the ALCS by the defending World Champion Orioles, Finley brought Williams back for 1972, when the " Oakland Dynasty " began.

From through, May played for the Cincinnati Reds ( 1965 – 71 ), Houston Astros ( 1972 – 74 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1975 – 80 ), and Kansas City Royals ( 1981 – 82 ).

Furthermore, the Orioles changed the name on their away jerseys from " Baltimore " to " Orioles " in 1972 after D. C. lost the last Senators team, in an attempt to convince D. C. fans to adapt them as their team.

Alonza Benjamin Bumbry ( born April 21, 1947 in Fredericksburg, Virginia ) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres from 1972 through 1985.