This game took place on April 12, 1966. It is being recapped today as part of Camden Chat’s retro recap series while MLB is on hold due to the lockout.
It may be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when the Baltimore Orioles went into nearly every season expecting to be contenders. And the 1966 season was a particularly anticipated one in Baltimore.
The O’s, a dozen years after taking up the roost in their new home city following the franchise’s move from St. Louis, had turned a corner in the 1960s, rattling off five winning seasons in a six-year span.