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coxfan
07-11-2014, 05:45 AM
The Red Sox website, redsox.com, has two articles today on Babe Ruth's MLB debut, which is approaching its 100th year anniversary. One amendment I'll add to those good articles: One refers to the Baltimore Orioles as " then of the International League", implying, ( probably unintentionally) that Ruth's Baltimore club was the ancestor of today's Orioles. But those Orioles had nothing to do with today's team. There have been a number of Baltimore Orioles clubs, including some in MLB in the 19th century. Today's Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to NYC.

Today's Orioles were the old St. Louis Browns, who moved to Baltimore in 1954 and adopted the traditional " Orioles" name.