Mike Flanagan, a former Cy Young winner and part of the Baltimore Orioles’ 1983 World Series championship team, has died. He was 59. Authorities found a body outside Flanagan’s home in Monkton, Md., on Wednesday afternoon. Hours later, the Orioles ...

Tagged with: baltimore orioles Cal Ripken Jr. maryland memorial stadium Orioles pitcher

WASHINGTON — Baseball players often say the best approach is to keep it plain. See ball, hit ball. Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. has the same philosophy in mind for a sports exchange with Japanese kids victimized by this ...

Tagged with: Cal Ripken Jr. japan Sports

Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver is auctioning off 47 of his treasured keepsakes, including his 1966 World Series ring and jerseys received as gifts from Cal Ripken Jr. and Eddie Murray. The former Baltimore Orioles skipper will earn tens ...

Tagged with: auction Baltimore Cal Ripken Jr. former Orioles

Below is an interactive timeline of the history of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Click on the baseballs on the timeline to see the dates, and click the orange arrows to go back and forth between the first and second ...

Tagged with: baltimore orioles baseball Cal Ripken Jr. Camden Yards Maryland Stadium Authority oriole park Oriole Park at Camden Yards Orioles

Former state Sen. Francis X. (Frank) and Janet Kelly, owners of Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, received the Cal, Sr. Award on Feb. 25 from the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation for their work in the community. He served in the ...

Tagged with: Cal Ripken Jr. Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation

In case you haven’t seen it, the National Sports Collectors Convention at the Baltimore Convention Center, which I wrote about on Tuesday,  had a little visitor. For the third year in a row FBI investigators used the industry’s largest annual ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baseball Cal Ripken Jr.

Cal Ripken Jr., the famed Baltimore Orioles infielder and National Baseball Hall of Famer, is turning his talents to writing. Ripken and Baltimore Sun sportswriter Kevin Cowherd have agreed to pen a series of books aimed at middle-graders that will ...

Tagged with: Cal Ripken Jr. Orioles

Cal Ripken Jr. issued a statement yesterday regarding recent rumors O’s owner Peter Angelos rejected his proposition of working for the team. After confirming Angelos’ denial that the Orioles owner did not turn Ripken down (that, in fact, no such ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baseball Cal Ripken Jr. Orioles perry hall

The Minnesota Twins’ eight-year, $184 million contract extension for Joe Mauer is being heralded as a win-win for the team and for baseball. And Baltimore’s own Ron Shapiro helped orchestrate it. The deal is the fourth-largest contract in baseball history ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baseball Cal Ripken Jr. MLB sports business

I attended a screening last night of “A Shortstop in China,” a documentary produced by a Baltimore-area film company on Cal Ripken Jr.’s trip to China in 2007 as a diplomatic envoy for the U.S. State Department. The piece debuts ...

Tagged with: baseball Cal Ripken Jr. China Orioles