Baltimore Orioles
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Birdland
Near the entrance of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, you can grab a little cheat sheet (see picture above) telling you where to find all the exhibits and artifacts relevant to your favorite team. The folks in Cooperstown know that while many of their visitors come out of a broad love of Continue reading
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The Other Side of Summer
The calendar says that summer of 2024 ends on September 21. Tradition says it will end the day after Labor Day. For me, summer is effectively over on this, the evening of August 25. Fall classes start tomorrow at SUNY Oswego, and I will be there on day one teaching a section of Integrated Marketing Continue reading
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Dueling Fandoms
A week or so ago, I was following a baseball game that my favorite team, the Baltimore Orioles, were playing in and a thought struck me: This year’s Orioles squad is simply a lot of fun. They are a young team, loaded with talent, and they have a knack for come-from-behind victories. This team, I Continue reading
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October
I’ve heard it said that tourism is all about collecting clichés. When it comes to the enduring clichés associated with the fall season, I don’t need to engage in tourism to collect them. They are right outside my front door. Central New York has all of the stereotypical/archetypical ingredients of American autumns in spades: pumpkin Continue reading
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards
On September 16, Griffin and I visited Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards to watch the home team soundly defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-0. I will have more to say about the trip, the game, the Orioles, and Baltimore in general in the future, but this post is devoted to some pics that we Continue reading
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Birdwatching
In case you were wondering, I can confirm that, as of September 5, 2023, the Baltimore Orioles still own the best record in the American League. In related news, Griffin and I will be traveling to Baltimore next weekend to catch a crucial late-season game against the hated Tampa Bay Rays. I haven’t been to Continue reading
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Like It’s 1999
Ever since I found that 1990s Orioles jacket a few days back, I started wondering where some of my old Baltimore caps were stashed away. I looked in the most obvious places and came up empty-handed. Tonight, on a whim, I decided to check the basement. Bingo! I found the cap I wore a lot Continue reading
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Out of Mothballs
There was a point within my lifetime, when baseball was probably still a more popular sport among Americans than football. Personally, up until the 1990s, I cared a lot more about baseball than any other sport. The team I followed daily in the box scores and on TV whenever I could watch them was the Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.
a.k.a. V.J. 