Long Brooks Robinson story I believe I told on radio:
When the Orioles played in Memorial Stadium, the PA announcer was named Rex Barney. When a fan made a great catch of a foul ball, he'd say, "Give that fan a contract." At a game with my dad and Brooks fouls off a pitch. Dad makes a leaping catch, everyone cheers, Rex does his thing. I'm over the moon. I got a Brooks Robinson foul ball. Can't believe it.
Next day at school, I tell everyone. Obviously. After school we have to play catch with this ball. Obviously. I figure I can throw a major league curve ball with it. I can't. I throw it low, my friend can't catch it. Now is when I mention we lived at the top of a hill. Ball rolls down the street and into a sewer.
The Brooks ball is gone. I never told my dad when he was alive. I always look up to the sky at this point and say, "Sorry 'bout that, Pop."
I tell this story decades later at a charity event in Baltimore. Turns out a man at our table did some work with Brooks. A week later a box arrives at my house with this and a note:
Hope this makes up for the one that got away, Brooks.
Indeed it did, Brooks. What a man.
@BizNasty2point0 https://t.co/vd8DOe6Egw Biz think you’re close in saying 63 has added $100M. Forbes Franchise value ⬆️ $1B since 2012 w/ team & brand factors (ex-stadium & loc’n) as >50% of that growth. To say Marchand driving 10% of that uptick with last 10yrs of play? I’d buy it @ryanwhitney6
Entering the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey, here were the best scores to par in the majors by players with 50+ rounds played since 1997 (there are 111 players in that group):
Tiger Woods, -125
Ernie Els, +73
Phil Mickelson, +74
Geoff Ogilvy, +77
Nick O'Hern, +102