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"A thoroughly enjoyable oral history...Casual fans will find the interviews and anecdotes thoroughly entertaining, and more serious students of the game will find in the Orioles story a microcosm of baseball history in the postwar years. The first great baseball book of 2001." - "Booklist". In "From 33rd Street to Camden Yards", John Eisenberg, a critically acclaimed sportswriter and longtime sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun, brings to life the epic saga of the Baltimore Orioles - baseball's winningest franchise from 1960 through 1997 - using the voices of the players, managers, coaches, owners, front-office officials, and others who have helped make the Orioles a secular religion in a city that calls itself Baseball City, USA.Relying on storytelling flair, persistent research, and an eye for detail and utilizing knowledge and insights culled from fifteen years of award-winning reporting, Eisenberg turns dozens of hours of interviews with Hall of Famers and reserve infielders alike into a vivid, fast-moving oral history - the first ever of the Orioles.
John Eisenberg interviewed more than ninety individuals for this book - including such Orioles stars as Earl Weaver, Ken Singleton, Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, and Frank Robinson, as well as current owner Peter Angelos - making "From 33rd Street to Camden Yards" a rich, rewarding book that defines both the Orioles team and the Orioles experience.
