Friday, November 2, 2012

New Pictures of the 1971 - 1972 Orioles All Orange Uniforms - Now we have almost the entire lineup!

Thanks to ebay, we've got 4 more pictures from the Sporting News archives to add to the collection of the All Orange Orioles uniform worn at the end of 1971 and the beginning of 1972.

We've now got a picture of Davey Johnson:


As well as three pictures of Merv Rettenmund:





It appears the Sporting News must have had a photographer at the April 22, 1972 game which was played in Cleveland as we now have a picture of almost every Oriole that started that game.

According to the lineup that day, Don Buford was the leadoff hitter



followed by Merv Rettenmumd and then Paul Blair (who we can see on deck)



Batting 4th was Boog Powell




and Brooks Robinson was 5th




Batting 6th was Elrod Hendricks (who can barely be seen behind Brooks), followed by Davey Johnson.



Mark Belanger batted 8th (and can be seen on deck behind Johnson), followed by Jim Palmer


Paul Blair, Elrod Hendricks and Mark Belanger are the only starters from that day for which we don't yet have full pictures (although we can see all of them on deck).  I'm hoping that eventually we'll see these players at bat as well as it seems that every few months a few more pictures surface.

1 comment:

CaptKirk42 said...

Nice to see the "new" photos. Yes it would be very nice if those missing players show up.