If you're looking for April's Fools gags, move along. I got nothin. We're headed in to the home stretch...Harold Baines days until Opening Day. According to the wonderful NumerOlogy, Eddie Waitkus was another O's number three and was the inspiration for one of the more peculiar set pieces in Bernard Malamud's The Natural. Waitkus was no Robert Redford, for the record.
As long as I'm at it, I'll give a shout out to Dan Connolly and his new site BaltimoreBaseball.com. If you enjoyed his O's coverage at the Sun like I did, give it a shot.