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• Rest in Peace, Henny
In Year Two of the Bird Tapes, I’m adding a series of interviews with legendary sportswriters who covered the Orioles back in the day. They saw everything and they’re great storytellers. I had every intention of including an interview with Jim Henneman in the series. He grew up in Baltimore following the Orioles, started covering […]...2025
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• Introducing the Bird Tapes Podcast
The Bird Tapes archive currently consists of 41 interviews with former Oriole players, front office executives, managers, scouts, broadcasters and sportswriters. I started my Orioles history project on Substack by posting my vintage interview (circa 1999) with Brooks Robinson over a year ago. My conversation with legendary Orioles newspaper beat writer Richard Justice, recorded in […]...2025
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• Lost Voices: Bob Boyd got his chance with the Orioles
(One in a series of articles highlighting former Orioles whom I interviewed for my oral history a quarter-century ago, but only on the phone, depriving me of a recording that I could play now as part of the Bird Tapes.) Robert Richard Boyd could hit a baseball. His numbers tell that tale. While playing in […]...2025
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• Introducing Bird Tapes 2025
When I debuted the Bird Tapes nearly a year ago, I had a shoebox full of plastic microcassettes containing recordings of rare interviews with figures from the history of the Orioles. The figures ranged from the legendary (Brooks, Earl, Frank, etc.) to the not-so-famous (Barry Shetrone) and also included front office executives, a broadcaster (Ernie Harwell) […]...2025
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• Lost Voices: Steve Stone’s 25-win season for the Orioles
(One in a series of articles highlighting former Orioles whom I interviewed for my oral history a quarter-century ago, but only on the phone, depriving me of a recording that I could play now as part of the Bird Tapes.) When 31-year-old journeyman pitcher Steve Stone arrived at the Orioles’ spring training camp in February […]...2025
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• Boog Powell Was Even Better Than You Think
BaltimoreBaseball.com is delighted to be partnering with John Eisenberg, the author and longtime Baltimore sports columnist, whose latest venture is an Orioles history project called The Bird Tapes. Available via subscription at birdtapes.substack.com/subscribe, the Bird Tapes is built around a set of vintage interviews with Orioles legends that Eisenberg recorded a quarter-century ago while ...2024
• The Spirit of ‘66BaltimoreBaseball.com is delighted to be partnering with John Eisenberg, the author and longtime Baltimore sports columnist, whose latest venture is an Orioles history project called The Bird Tapes. Available via subscription at birdtapes.substack.com/subscribe, the Bird Tapes is built around a set of vintage interviews with Orioles legends that Eisenberg recorded a quarter-century ago while writi...2024See also John Eisenberg
• Inside the New Earl Weaver BiographyBaltimoreBaseball.com is delighted to be partnering with John Eisenberg, the author and longtime Baltimore sports columnist, whose latest venture is an Orioles history project called The Bird Tapes. Available via subscription at birdtapes.substack.com/subscribe, the Bird Tapes is built around a set of vintage interviews with Orioles legends that Eisenberg recorded a quarter-century ago while writi...2024Read about John Eisenberg