My friends were talking about the Baltimore Orioles earlier today and I had no idea what they were talking about. Do you know what that is?
They're a baseball team based in Baltimore Maryland!
Oh okay, I thought it might be a sports team but I couldn't tell. What else do you know about them?
The current owner of the team is actually a lawyer named Peter Angelos, pretty strange to me.
That is pretty weird, how did he come to be the owner of a sports team as a lawyer?
and the "Birds".
The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1966 to 1983, when they made six World Series appearances, winning three of them (1966, 1970, 1983). This era of the club featured several future Hall of Famers who would later be inducted representing the Orioles, such as third baseman Brooks Robinson, outfielder Frank Robinson, starting pitcher Jim Palmer, first baseman Eddie Murray, shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., and manager Earl Weaver. The Orioles have won a total of nine division championships (
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