ORIOLES LEGEND RETURNS: EDDIE MURRAY JOINS BALTIMORE ORIOLES AS SPECIAL HITTING INSTRUCTOR….
Michael Olesker: The Return Of Orioles Magic And ‘Steady Eddie’
Eddie Murray
I turned off the television set after “Sunday Night Baseball” feeling pretty good. On national TV, the Orioles scored seven runs in the first inning and beat the Yankees into embarrassment.
And look who’s in first place in the American League East as we enter August.
I haven’t felt this good about Baltimore baseball in about 40 years. That’s the last time the Orioles won a world championship, and the anniversary made me think about two people.
One was Eddie Murray, maybe the most misunderstood Oriole of all time. Now 67, Murray will be here next Saturday, Aug. 5, when the alumni of those 1983 world champs come to Oriole Park for a 40th anniversary celebration, and fans can take home Eddie Murray bobbleheads.
The other person I thought about was Charles Steinberg. Five years ago, there was another reunion of that ’83 team — a 35th anniversary party — and Steinberg told a story that night about Murray that I’d never heard before.
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