Orioles Legends Answer Your Questions at FanFest | Baltimore Orioles

my name is Rob will offer 105 7fn and Masson and I get the honor to emcee this event this is my third one today but this one is uh don't tell anybody I told you this is my favorite I'm going to introduce to you some Oreo legends the first legend that I'm going to introduce is a man who just gave me a word of encouragement that I can't repeat the ACE Jim Palmer alright I'll second legend man he scooped a lot of short hops at first base you know who is BBQ now but yeah no introduction needed boom boom pow [Applause] Oriol fans are known for that chance and when I was a kid at Memorial Stadium Eddie Murray am I the only one with goosebumps right now don't tell anybody I told you that okay I have a hard time believing this I was in the back talking to this next legend and he says he has not been here for this event in 30 years 30 years you know who he is on a hot corner mr. Brooks Robinson [Applause] you know people ask I heard someone earlier ask what is the oil way this is the oil way I couldn't couldn't believe this crowd I heard there was like over 8,000 here that's unbelievable thanks for coming out pull young young Oriole fans know you for your barbecue but you were a heck of a first baseman man and one of the best power hitters of the game doing your time well thank you very much I feel like I've met every single one of you folks out here at my barbecue one day or another if you've been there raise your hand yeah thank you very much anyway well we look forward to doing it again this year and it always does me good and it does after you've been off for a whole year your ego suffers a little bit you know and you guys just built it up again thank you very much and I know these guys feel the same way we all try to copy his batting stance but we couldn't do it especially like him Eddie Murray that was a tough thing to do it with after I saw it for the first time she got to see myself Flint it was ugly that was an ugly stance I just gotta say my last year was Eddie's first year we spent 1977 together and I taught him well I'll tell you that the ACE people think you have our number one started they don't know what a number one's thought is Jim Palmer what's going on Jim well you know we all know that well of course these guys are well aware when I got to the Orioles I was 19 and back then they actually had you know had roommates because you you know you got along and he so they gave me Robin Roberts who was 38 he was twice my age but he was on his way to Cooperstown you know one of the great right-handed pitchers and I used to about one o'clock it in the morning you know we'd watch The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Robin I look across to the other bed he goes I got to get some rescued I'm 38 years old you can't keep asking me these questions but the thing is Robin answered them and I you know you of course Buble wouldn't be you know we all know what a gentleman he was and one of the great right-handed pitchers but you know what's so interesting to me is that the way just had the Hall of Fame induction or you know the guys that got in this year and and I say this every time I would not be in the Hall of Fame if I didn't have a chance to play with these three guys and you know Buch you know he didn't get in the Hall of Fame but he ended up what the most valuable player in 72nd and 69 you know and then Eddie I thought I was a judge of baseball but I saw Eddie Murray take batting practice in Miami in 1977 and I said this kid has no chance because it Eddie prided himself in this he probably was the worst well it worked for you because she used a big heavy bat he kind of knew where the barrel was but I'm going boy what a waste of time shagging for this guy because we used to have this little field you know they had to have field and we used to have guys on guard because Eddie would be in doing this because we didn't want any of our pitchers to get hurt from those weak fly balls he hit down the left field line but then the game started and that's when all of a sudden I go you know they talk I know you guys were just listening to Ana analytics tell you I mean they can give you a kind of a guide into it but once the game started and you were her Scout you so wool wait a minute this kid can really play and you know five hundred and four home runs later and over 3,000 hits we we got that message loud and clear yeah we're talking about practice right we were hitting Kansas City one day we come out early you know we're out there about two o'clock and we're running around you know get shorts on and Eddie's taking batting practice we all walked up the field we waited for the next guy because you know what did what nothing was happening you know and then the game started kind of a recurrent theme there well get to some questions we know some of our Oriole fans out here when I talked to uh the Oriole Hall of Famers to start off he'll want my left over here which is awesome Brooks Brooks my middle of my middle name is Brooke it's awesome I'm so excited I'm talking to you I wanted to know if you have a favorite memory that you can pinpoint well my favorite memory was being in the first World Series the Oreos first in 1966 you know as a grunt youngster growing up in Little Rock Arkansas all I dreamed about was being a professional baseball player I wrote a booklet in the eighth grade called my vocation and what I wanted to do when I grew up and I walk told him I wanted to be a professional baseball player so I signed in 1955 and got to Baltimore and I was here the rest of my life got a question over here gentlemen the Oriole Jersey this question is for Brooks of all the home runs you've hit in your career what was the most memorable for you I didn't hit too many but you know I hit a a 2 or a 3 run homer in Chicago off of Joe Harlan the right-center field and we were in the pennant race at you know I don't even know why I think it was 64 maybe and that was the one I remember most of all I do remember hitting a home run my last one at Memorial Stadium I think there was 55 or 56 fans in the stands and I celebrated that this question's furedi welcome back to Baltimore Eddie I've heard that that you just learned the switch hit a few years before you made it to the major leagues and I just want to know who was instrumental in that and you know how how you became so good at that so quickly I think it was the last two weeks of a 75 season we were hit in early batting practice and Jim Shafer happened is you know the last round or two of batting practice the guys got in the batting cage you started hitting on the other side what the heck I got in there and I started hitting the ball I hit the ball defense so Jim starts to have an early batting practice in the next city we stopped in and he says I'm doing the same thing but he's looking at me so now there's a phone call put it in the Baltimore that we got a kid here and I think he might be pretty good at switch-hitting and supposed to be the way it was gone on the other side well we're gonna mess up my best right hand and hit her and then he locked him up with well he can always go back to hitting right hand it so one night we get ready to play and he calls me back and I'm just so young and naive it's the first inning but I think he's gonna pinch it for me he calls me back and he says hey and I'm going yes and he goes you ever thought about hitting laughing oh I can hit left-handed he said go ahead I bent down picked up a left handed helmet put it on went up first pitch I hit was a double been doing it ever since but I went 10 for 31 the season ended and in a way I was kind of glad that there was no one in Florida that the instructional league that had any experience at it I just kind of went about it in my own way I mean we would play today we wouldn't play tomorrow because we were sharing a team with the Yankees well that team was good but we would play and it just gave me a lot of time and for some reason I had I just left the field open up to me and I think that was the biggest part for me I hit the ball hard to left field and all of a sudden I could start to see them you know the field open up and but that's the greatest mover ever made my life was switch-hitting and I owe that to Jim Shafer you and me mentioned about the Hall of Fame and I was very very fortunate to go to Eddie's in 2003 that was great experience in Cal's in 2007 and I'm very excited this year my good friend Harold's going in and of course Mussina's going in and my question really pertains to Mussina how do you feel that he has not picked the caps awareness you know from this plaque well I don't know I think normally the Hall of Fame makes that decision what hatch you're gonna wear one more games here maybe not as meaningful as playoff games even though he did have some playoff games I mean he had a great career won more games that I did and I think they made a decision for him I think would have been pretty controversial because he could be wearing either hats or maybe he gets one of those don't they make those double hats where you get to have in New York and then in Oriole but I think again there have been other players that have done that and I think the Orioles certainly would like to have him wear an Oriole at but so with the Yankee so I think they just kind of took a safer way out and you know I think if you ask moose he says I don't care what kind of hat I wear I I'm gonna have a chance in July 21st to be inducted and that's the what makes it so special one thing I'd like to say you know I came here there's a little parallel of what's happening now I came here in 1955 there oils came from st. Louis they were the old st. Louis Browns in 1950-53 they came to Baltimore in 54 they lost a hundred plus games 1955 they lost a hundred plus games and I had a lot of older players at that particular time well the parallel I like to draw is the fact we have a lot of young guys now and we got 40 15 guys from all the trades they made but the tank the point I'm trying to to make is about three years later in 50 with the Orioles who started getting respectable in 56 7 and in 59 and and finally in 60 we rarely almost had a chance to win the pennant and the reason is we had about five or six guys come up from the minor leagues Ronny Hansen came from triple-a he was Rookie of the Year Marv breeding Chuck Estrada a couple other people but that's one of the things I'm we have a lot of young talent here and I don't think it's gonna take us that long to be respectable my question is for Jim obviously the greatest Oriole pitcher of all time what's up buddy 19-year career 211 complete games what did you guys do back then that they are not doing today this employment 211 complete games they're not doing it today would you guys do the game has changed a little bit you have set up guys great closers Mariano Rivera just got the first unanimous vote so the game has changed a little bit I still think everybody in baseball the starting pitchers could pitch with a couple of exceptions who do a great job you can pitch more you know every spring or and they'll do it again duck broke al came over as a new pitching coach he's going to say we want to try to get six innings his 18 outs we want to get somewhere between 18 to 21 outs that'll make our bullpen better that will make our both be better in September not overused so that's the mission back then you know we only had ten to ten guys in the bullpen or got on the staff now they have 13 so the game has just changed somebody asked me about Wind Ups I think some of our guys did some pretty good job of adjusting but the reason I got in the Hall of Fame is because there's about 1100 lifetime homeruns here the Oreos if they score more runs they you know Cashner didn't pitch well gave up four or five runs a game he got three three runs a game you're not gonna win a whole lot of games in modern history you know Cobb started pitching well after the late sign he got a little bit 3.3 runs if you get these guys some runs then they don't have an excuse thing go out there they can pitch they can relax so hopefully that'll what will happen in 2019 what an opportunity just as I was when I was 19 for a lot of the young pitchers here and hopefully they'll make adjustments and I think what Brandon Hyde said which I like and I learned from Cal Ripken senior you try to come to the ballpark every day and get a little bit better and not only individually but as a team so you know the Orioles I was talking to Dylan Bundy today I said if you tried to lose 115 games that's hard to do so I I think there'll be a better ball club this year they're in a tough division obviously with the Yankees and the Red Sox the world champs but I think they as Brooksie said should be a much more competitive ballclub and you know you can see what you have and give them an opportunity and you go from there they're gonna have a lot of really high draft choices and let's hope they make some good decisions they're got support questions over hits on the left for you first off I love coming to the restaurant and it's great seeing your happy face there and the food is good I'll give you a plug second question is what would be your take now on hitting into the shift drop one down if they're gonna give it to you over there why not you know and I wasn't exactly slow but I wasn't exactly fast I was sort of half fast oh did what but I know I I don't they did put the shift on me a couple of times later on in my career and I could hit the ball to left field I could hit the ball through there every time I go to Fenway Park and do games I still remember the 90th three home runs the left-field one down the line if one two dead left-center and then almost to the first two we're off with Jim Lomborg the last one was off of John Wyatt you remember John Green goose Wyatt that's right I did a spitter oh yeah sit a spitter right down the line won the game so yeah book it at the bottle I think the bottle left pretty good and they didn't they didn't want to do that too much to me but I you know it's that's a hard thing to do when you know when you're up there what I think I might do really is get back in the batter's box as far as I could I mean I would get all the way in the back in the back corner of it and try to make everything away from me even the inside pitches would be away and then you do that and if they pitch you inside it's a ball so you know why not what do I know this question is for Brooks Robinson Brooks in during your career what pitcher did you fear the most what picture did I fear the most the gentleman who liked to see me come to bat was a pitcher by the name of Earl Wilson who pitched for Boston and Detroit I just never hit that pitcher well I don't know you know I played in South America in 1955 and Barranquilla Colombia the Royals took about 12 guys down there to play together and he put one right here I had I had the hat on thank God hit me right there bounced over the stadium there but I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not but I mean I hit the ball but I just couldn't get base hits Earl Wilson we have one more question for our legends the question you remember them do you remember the night in Detroit me and you and Frank had back to back to back off Earl Wilson yeah yeah well I hit a home run off of in there yeah yeah he wasn't scared and I said take that oh that's right one more question this questions for Eddie Eddie you're part of one of the most famous things to happen in Baltimore went if he picked the three runners over Collins moves being Upshaw what did you say to those guys before they got picked off I didn't have to say much really uh they were just really was so eager to run and that's you know sometimes you never notice the first base coach coming up they couldn't wait to run and and all I would do I would a couple of times I got our first base in a hurry and I'm always told tippy and I left-handed pitchers don't listen to me and sometimes what I would do is uh hey we got a good base runner over here don't forget about it now that I'm saying give me one I point to home plate I said hey did you hit me just give me one you know this guy can run and you would do it again now in the third time you'll swear we're gonna fight when we get in the dugout the way I'm yelling at him but all he's doing is looking at me then the reason why I did that because the first base coach couldn't see which way I was pointing and stuff like that and you would just do things like that with our McGregor planning and then tippy you know and it was just sometimes if most of the time it worked because they would see me come off because I'm yelling at him next thing you know they were coming off the bag and we got luck who was a catcher that night Lenny stick out of any Lenny Secada was a catcher and he's not a catcher but he was catching that night and they were thinking about stealing off of him but he did a good job yeah tippy he had to have a sign with tiffey because tip he might pick him off too and that's embarrassing I know that for sure tip me wasn't that good Flanagan Flanagan I might have took one right there folks give a hand to our oral legends your barber puh-pow Eddie berry and Brooks Robinson

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Length: 21min 0sec (1260 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 04 2019