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Baltimore Orioles
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[edit] Further Reading
- Thomas Boswell: "Why Baltimore Wins More Games Than Anybody Else", in How Life Imitates the World Series, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1982, pp. 60-68.
- Warren Corbett: "The Oriole Way: The Founding Fathers", in Bob Brown, ed.: Monumental Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Capital Region, The National Pastime, SABR, Number 39, 2009, pp. 89-92.
- Peter Filichia: Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebrations of all 273 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1993.
- Mike Gesker: The Orioles Encyclopedia, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2009.
- Ted Patterson: The Baltimore Orioles: Four Decades of Magic from 33rd Street to Camden Yard, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, 2000.
- Ted Patterson: Day by Day in Baltimore Orioles History, Sports Publishing Inc., Champaign, IL, 1999.
- John Thorn: Total Baseball, Total Sports Publishing, 1989, 1995.
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