BALTIMORE — The theme meandered through the years, from his stint as an 18-year-old in Major League Baseball to playing Cuba in 1957 and then to the Orioles clubhouse Saturday as an 85-year-old. Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson’s words all came back to the same idea, no matter how many twists it took to get there: He loves baseball.
Even more, he loves baseball in Baltimore, the city he has called home full-time since 1960. As he watches the Orioles surge to levels they haven’t reached since before the latest rebuild began in 2018, that love swells.
That’s the crux of the message he delivered pregame Saturday to the current Orioles, invited into the clubhouse to shed his wisdom gained through a life of baseball — with more than a few stories interwoven.
