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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Real ones know that George Blanda [with jersey № 64] was a depth-chart QB on the Baltimore Colts’ roster for *one game* in 1950. That game—played at Memorial Stadium, on September 17th, 1950—was also: • The Colts’ inaugural game in the NFL • Art Donovan’s pro debut • George Blanda’s 23rd birthday

Panoramic photograph of the Baltimore Colts' first regular season game in the NFL—played September 17th, 1950 in a one-deck Memorial Stadium, against Washington.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Baltimore Sun posted this graphic on FB, related to today’s Orioles/Yankees rainout, which inexplicably uses a photograph of Old Yankee Stadium . . . which closed in 2008 . . . and was demolished in 2009/10. They do realize the Yankees no longer play here, don’t they?

Graphic, posted by the Baltimore Sun on FB, showing a photograph of Old Yankee Stadium [which closed in 2008!] with a white tarp on the infield (and the following text superimposed over the graphic: “Orioles-Yankees finale canceled by rain as Baltimore ends season at 79-82”).

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Ravens just posted this photograph of the jersey patch that players will be wearing for the team’s Brazil game against the Dallas Cowboys @ Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Look closely & you’ll see that it’s hand sewn! 🤯 Imagine being the person who has to sew all 53 of these by hand . . .

A close-up photograph showing a purple Ravens jersey with an NFL 2026 RIO GAME patch that has clearly been sewn onto the upper-left chest by hand.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happened to be driving past Camden Yards during the singing of the national anthems for tonight’s Orioles–Blue Jays game.

Oriole Park at Camden Yards as seen from the ramp to Martin Luther King Boulevard. Smoke from the pregame fireworks is hanging in the air over the ballpark.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pour one out for Ernie Accorsi. A good man. His career with the Baltimore Colts: 1970–1974 • Public Relations Director 1977–1981 • Assistant General Manager 1982–1984 • General Manager He resigned as GM of the Baltimore Colts in February 1984—only a month and a half before the team moved to Indy.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s the box score from that first matchup between the Ravens and the Saints—Week 5 in 1996.

Box score for New Orleans Saints at Baltimore Ravens — September 29th, 1996 @ 1:00 p.m. — before a crowd of 61,063 at Memorial Stadium. The Ravens beat the Saints that day 17 to 10.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

September 29th, 1996 @ Memorial Stadium • The first time the Baltimore Ravens ever hosted the New Orleans Saints Photo taken from Section 31 of the Upper Deck (Sec. U31). I’m actually in this photograph! But you’d need a much higher-resolution version of it & a powerful magnifying glass to find me.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here’s another group of baseballers that might well have been termed the “Baltimore Four”—the four-person nucleus of the 1890s National League Champion Baltimore Orioles (seen here at their dapperest, clockwise from top left): Willie Keeler, John McGraw, Hughie Jennings, and Joe Kelley.

The four-person nucleus of the 1890s National League Champion Baltimore Orioles (seen here at their dapperest, clockwise from top left): Willie Keeler, John McGraw, Hughie Jennings, and Joe Kelley.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On this day in 1964—September 13th—in coordination with a citywide celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Baltimore & the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore experienced a 2nd “British Invasion” when the Beatles played 2 concerts (4 & 8:30 p.m.) @ the Baltimore Civic Center.

The Beatles performing on the Baltimore Civic Center stage—September 13th, 1964.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A graduate of Baltimore’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in the Class of 1985—when the Ravens signed Williams during the summer of 1996, about three weeks after he’d been released by the Philadelphia Eagles, it made for a unique homecoming—as noted by this passage in The Baltimore Sun.

“[Calvin] Williams Relishes the thought of playing before the home crowd. He grew up cheering for the Baltimore Colts and heroes such as Bert Jones and Lydell Mitchell.” [Ref: THE (Baltimore) SUN., Saturday, 20th July 1996, p. 10c, column 3]

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you said Calvin Williams (WR, № 80 for the 1996 Baltimore Ravens), then you are correct!

Calvin Williams card showing a Ravens player in a white № 80 jersey, pointing in the general direction of the camera, mouth open, with a speech bubble superimposed over the card that reads, “If you said Calvin Williams then you are CORRECT!”

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This photo has made the rounds before, but it’s worth resharing . . . Wild BIll Hagy (back row, second from the right) and some of the Section 34 Rowdies on top of the outdoor observation deck at 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), during an Orioles road trip to New York City—Summer of 1980.

Wild BIll Hagy (back row, second from the right) and some of the Section 34 Rowdies on top of the outdoor observation deck at 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), during an Orioles road trip to New York City—Summer of 1980.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A fellow named Matt Blanchard who used to work at Kauffman Stadium in KC posted this photo in the “Stadium Chasers” FB group . . . The Kansas City Royals hosted a “Mascot Day” in 1997! Here’s a great shot of the Oriole Bird holding a Super Soaker and standing on top of the dugout.

The Baltimore Orioles mascot, a.k.a. the “Oriole Bird,” standing on top of the dugout in Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium, holding a Super Soaker, during “Mascot Day” at a Kansas City Royals game in 1997. [Photo by Matt Blanchard]

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trevor J-Daniel Rogers was j-dealing today.

Trevor Rogers, pitching against the Cleveland Guardians in Camden Yards on September 7, 2026. He left the game with a 6-1 lead.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Orioles are on the board, 1-0 against the Guardians.

Samuel Basallo touching home plate with his right foot, scoring the Orioles’ first run, during the bottom of the second inning at Camden Yards.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Orioles won the Topps Baseball Organization of the Year Award three times: in 1966, ‘71, & ‘72. As this Evening Sun blurb notes—the winner of the award was “…[d]etermined by a formula that emphasize[d] the quality of individual prospects of a baseball system, rather than team won-lost records.”

“Additionally, the Orioles have been chosen as Topps Baseball Organization of the Year three times in the last eight years: 1966, 1971, and 1972. // The winner of the annual award is determined by a formula that emphasizes the quality of individual prospects of a baseball system, rather than team won-lost records.” [Ref: THE (Baltimore) EVENING SUN., Thurs., 4th April 1974, p. C4, col. 1]

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last night was a good reminder that the O’s have no trophy in their trophy case celebrating the 1966 World Series championship. During pregame they displayed the “Topps Baseball Organization of the Year Award” from 1966—but that trophy wasn’t actually presented to the team *because* they won the WS

The “TOPPS BASEBALL ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR AWARD” presented to the Baltimore Orioles in 1966, by Topps Chewing Gum Incorporated.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The famous photograph of Devo depriving Joe Carter of a would-be 3-run HR (Orioles vs. Blue Jays, on June 5th, 1992) graced the cover of the Orioles’ 1993 pocket schedule. As it currently stands—Cowser’s catch is certainly a good candidate photo for the cover of the Orioles’ 2027 pocket schedule.

Baltimore Orioles center fielder Mike Devereaux, making a sensational leap, glove extended over the outfield wall at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, to rob Joe Carter of a would-be 3-run home run during an Orioles game against the Toronto Blue Jays on June 5th, 1992. Fans who were sitting in the first row of seats, next to the bullpen’s barrier fence, are standing up and are awkwardly contorting their bodies backwards, so as to stay out of Devereaux’s way.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*prince voice* “This is what it sounds like… When cows fly.”

Prince, in his 1984 "When Doves Cry" music video-looking at himself in a mirror and singing "This is what it feels like... When doves cry.”

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Haven’t seen this referenced in the numerous & heartfelt tributes to Tim Curry, and there’s no mention of it on ~his~ Wikipedia page, but if you go to the bottom of Freddie Mercury’s Wiki page you’ll find the following passage about Curry (a keen horticulturalist) evidently resuscitating his garden.

Toward the bottom of Freddie Mercury’s Wikipedia page, there’s a section titled “Other friendships”… The text I’ve highlighted from that section reads: “Mercury saw the stage version of the London musical The Rocky Horror Show at the Royal Court Theatre in Chelsea, and in 1975 went to see the film version, both of which starred Tim Curry. Curry and Mercury became friends, and as a keen horticulturalist Curry later told the UK edition of House and Garden magazine about designing Mercury’s garden: ‘Freddie came back from a tour and said, ‘The garden, dear, it’s dead.’ I said, ‘What? Did you water it?’ And Freddie said, ‘Water it, dear?’’”

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The stirrup socks in question. On television and from far away, they looked like solid black socks with three orange bands around the calves. But they only looked that way because AJ wore an additional pair of black socks below the stirrups, instead of the usual base layer that contrasts in color.

Adam Jones’ favored 1954-style Baltimore Orioles stirrup socks, worn over regular black socks.

The stirrups have three orange bands of equal width around the calves.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I seem to recall that at some point (possibly during the 1990s?) Mitchell & Ness actually did produce an 1896 Baltimore Orioles jersey. It might’ve been a one-off or a prototype… I don’t think they were mass-produced? [The 1896 Orioles jersey had a very distinctive ornamental B on the breast pocket]

A cropped detail of the 1896 Baltimore Orioles team photograph, featuring (left to right) Wilbert Robinson, Hughie Jennings, & Heinie Reitz in the top row, and Willie Keeler & Dr. Arlie Pond in the bottom row.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1. This should have been a jersey patch. 2. O.J. should be in the Ring of Honor. Really. What are we even doing here? Put O.J. Brigance in the Ring of Honor. It should’ve happened during his lifetime, but even a posthumous induction would be better than no induction at all.

A post by the Baltimore Ravens FB page, announcing that the team will honor O.J. Brigance with a helmet decal during the 2026 season.

The decal, placed to the right of the player's uniform number, is a black shield outlined in purple, with a large sans-serif OJ in white type, above a small 57, also in white type.

The post reads: "Forever part of us. // We will honor O.J. Brigance and his legacy throughout the season.”

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

During the “I Love the ‘90s” night at Camden Yards, I made sure to pay homage to this—which, honestly, may’ve been the peak ‘90s moment at Oriole Park. Ken Griffey, Jr., still—to date—is the only player who’s ever hit the Warehouse… And he did so while wearing a backwards hat! As 1990s as it gets.

Ken Griffey, Jr.’s vertical home run marker, placed in the wall of the B&O Railroad Warehouse on Eutaw Street, roughly eight feet above street level. This marker commemorates when Griffey crushed a mammoth 465-foot home run which hit the Warehouse during the Gatorade All-Star Home Run Derby on July 12th, 1993.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Saw today’s vibrant rainbow on the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83 South), heading down into Baltimore City… It’s not a double, but hey—we can’t be picky! 🌈

A rainbow seen from the center lane of the Jones Falls Expressway (I-83 South), approximately one mile north of Exits 10A–10B for Northern Parkway.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve been saying for years that the Ravens should put O.J. Brigance in the Ring of Honor at M&T Bank Stadium. If he’s not worthy of that—then, really, who is? He represented the best of us. And he’s the only player to ever win a Grey Cup *and* a Super Bowl for the same city. That won’t happen again.

Photograph of longtime Ravens staff member, O.J. Brigance.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Saddened to hear that Orenthial James Brigance has died. I saw O.J. play for both the Baltimore Stallions & the Baltimore Ravens. He was such a force of nature on the field. And after his playing days, he served as a genial host on the weekly Ravens Report television show. Rest in peace to a legend.

A signed O.J. Brigance photograph from his tenure as a linebacker with the CFL Baltimore Stallions (1994–1995). [No—I do not own this photo…]

Baltimore Ravens special teams player O.J. Brigance, celebrating making the very first tackle in Super Bowl XXXV.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And for those who like history in the broader sense… Here’s a purported photo of Tommy John’s Welsh-immigrant paternal grandfather, Thomas John (1854–1911), who worked as a blacksmith at a coal mine in Indiana. The name of *his* father—who presumably was born, lived, and died in Wales—was John John!

Photograph of Welsh immigrant Thomas John (1854–1911), paternal grandfather of famed baseball pitcher Tommy John.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Of interest perhaps to those who like the more esoteric bits of baseball history… Here’s Tommy John’s 1961 Bill Weiss questionnaire. Longtime baseball man William J. Weiss (1925–2011) used to administer these questionnaires to high school ballplayers who had ambitions of playing at a higher level.

1961 Bill Weiss baseball questionnaire, filled out by 18-year-old Thomas Edward John [who grew up to become the famous pitcher Tommy John, for whom the eponymous surgical procedure was named].

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My favorite detail is the ghostly outline of stitching around the № 4, which attached the jersey’s internal chest pocket where Earl used to hide his cigarette pack. Notice that every single one of the buttons is fastened, except for the second button from the top, which makes for easier cig access!

Detail of the above photo, showing the faintly visible stitched outline of Earl’s internal pocket where he stored his cigarette pack. The buttons are all fastened, except for the button just below the top, which allowed for easier access to the cigarettes.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy birthday to Earl Sidney Weaver. The Baseball HOF FB account posted this immaculate high-resolution photograph of the Earl of Baltimore today (one that I do not recall having seen before), and man is it a visual feast. There are so many interesting details.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For those who missed it, there was a tremendously vibrant double rainbow over the Ferry Branch of the Patapsco River. Photos simply do not do it justice.

Double rainbow over the Wheelabrator Incinerator (formerly known as the Baltimore RESCO Waste-to-Energy Plant).

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some of the best interactions are the spontaneous ones that occur between two random fans who’ve never met before. I had one of those tonight. Complimented this guy on his rad home 1969 Brooks Robinson jersey, and we had a nice short chat on Eutaw Street.

A guy wearing a home 1969 Brooks Robinson jersey that has a big orange № 5 outlined in black, reads “B. ROBINSON” in black, gently arched across the shoulder blades, and has the MLB 100th Anniversary patch on the left sleeve.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As awful as yesterday was in Birdland… The vibes in the Yard tonight were ~not as dead as you’d expect~ There was actually a decent energy. For whatever that’s worth.

The Bird waving a gigantic O’s WIN flag on the field, after the game.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What a nice surprise to find in my e-mail inbox. There’s a new M83 album coming in September!

M83 mail informing me of a new album called “I Wrote You A Letter” to be released in September on Other Suns.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bet this is the Jeff Millman of “Why Not?” fame.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

According to the end credits of the 1989 Baltimore Orioles season highlight video—the “Why Not?” song was written by Jeff Millman & Tommy Alonso, and performed by The Dream Team Band.

Screen shot of music section during the end credits for the Baltimore Orioles ‘89 “Why Not?” Team Highlight Video . . . .

“WHY NOT?”

Written by
JEFF MILLMAN & TOMMY ALONSO

Performed by
THE DREAM TEAM BAND

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Who knew that there were so many variants! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braden_...

The given name “Braden” and its sundry variant forms.

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Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Based on the “[g]ies” visible in the photo, it looks like it’s the Texas A&M Aggies.

New Adidas gray Texas A&M Aggies baseball jerseys for the 2026 season.

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