Crawthumper?

According to this here 1894 map Marylander's like to thump craws. I'm thinking it's an insult but the Orioles did win their first pennant that year so I'd imagine the crab town kranks were vociferous. I dig the pig. Nice lemon peel ball as well. 

Crawthumper (plural crawthumpers) / (Ireland) ostentatiously pious person
    
 The term suggests that the person is always beating (thumping) their chest (craw) a gesture of piety      and submission. It also implies an extreme obsequiousness towards the Catholic Church, priests,          monseignours, and especially junior bishops. A crawthumper will know every gradation of the clergy,      from curate to pope, supplicant to reverend mother and the correct form of address in canon law.          Derogatory, though commonly used by Irish catholics to describe other, more openly pious                    catholics, the term has an anticlerical tinge. -wiktionary

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day!

1897 Orioles Batboy

1908 Baltimore Orioles of the International Association

1908 Baltimore Orioles of the International Association.

1868 - Deaf team vs. the Pastimes

The hearing impaired students of the Kendall School Base Ball Club of Washington D.C. took on the Pastimes June 6, 1868 at Madison Avenue. Although no box score could be found, the Sun remarked in the announcement for the game that “the deaf mutes have been successful against several of the best clubs of Washington.” The Kendall School became the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and then later renamed Gallaudet University. The prestigious school also gets credit for inventing the "huddle" in football when they were playing against another team of deaf players and needed to hide their sign language from their foes.

Picture is of the 1887 Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind Base Ball Club. The school had already been playing competitively for over a decade by then. 

Icterus Galbula

High above in the tree tops, Icterus Galbula, the Baltimore oriole, sings its sweet song, announcing its return from a long journey of winter migration. In early spring, males establish their territories and begin to attract females by chirping and chattering while hopping from branch to branch. Depending on interest, the females will either ignore the male or sing back and give a suggestive wing-quiver in response. Mating pairs are often monogamous, and after a fluttery-feathery love making session, Mr. and Mrs. Oriole prepare for their coming family. Among the elms, cottonwoods and maples, the mother Oriole carefully constructs her unique hanging nest.  She anchors it high, hanging long fibers over a small branch, and then poking her bill in and out to tangle the fibers. The process is continued as a closely knit wall slowly forms. Males occasionally bring nesting materials, but don’t usually help with the weaving, preferring instead to patrol the family territory. The female lays three to seven eggs with an incubation period of about two weeks. Once free of their gestational protection, the hatchlings are fed by regurgitation by both parents. After less than two weeks, the curious younglings start to venture out of the nest and become independent thereafter.

John McGraw finds happiness once again

1902

LORD BALTIMORE'S NINE

LORD BALTIMORE'S NINE

by Clinton S. Birch (1874)

We are a jovial base-ball club; our hearts are light and free, And though we meet with some defeats, oft gain the victory!

Give us fair play and win or lose we’ll never make a muss, But be content to act like men; yes that’s the style for us!

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Down at the Newington Park, on the baseball grounds,

When in earnest contest our gallant nine are found,

Struggling with their rivals for victory and renown,

Down at the Newington Park, on the baseball ground!

Of all the manly games in vogue, enumerate them all.

There’s none you’ll find that can compare with that known as base-ball!

‘Tis jolly fun when on the run or when with eagle eye.

You catch your adversaries’ ball and take it on the fly!

We make no boasts but stand resolved to win ourselves a name, And we will do the best we can to merit all we claim!

We’re not afraid of rival clubs; we’ll meet them anywhere, And when they choose to play us here we’ll act upon the square!

Recorded for the first time ever by Ken Mars