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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 4/23/2008 on www.baltimoresun.com [flag]
Do you still believe in magic? I guess that's the most apt question right now. If we can stop time and freeze the scene, we would see a man wearing a fake beard who has been hoisted high above his buddies. They also have fake beards. The one atop the crowd has yanked off his straw hat and waves it in the air, trying to whip up a gust of excitement that might travel throughout the ballpark. Do ... [link]

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Baltimore Sun: O’s fans pay homage to Wild Bill Hagy
Published 4/23/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Baltimore Sun: O’s fans pay homage to Wild Bill Hagy Wild Bill...remembered. I found some guys who certainly do believe, and they weren’t wearing those beards to hide their identities. (Hey, it’s not always easy being an Orioles fan.) They were paying tribute to an iconic figure: Wild Bill Hagy, he of the straw hat, the scruffy beard and the pony keg gut. From his seat in Section 34, he was the wand that stirred Orioles Magic each night on 33rd Street. “He was part of our childhood,” said Charley Case, 39, who grew up a 15-minute walk from Memorial Stadium and now runs an ...

Quick Hits: The Game Last Night, A Quick Roundup, "Wild" Bill...
Published 4/23/2008 by Maryland Orioles' Fan at Oriole Post - Baltimore Orioles Analysis & News; The World of Baseball and Beyond
... The Baltimore Sun’s Rick Maese has a great piece on the site today on a group of Oriole fans who decided to honor “Wild” Bill Hagy last weekend when the Yankees were in town. ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, April 24
Published 4/24/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... 'ROAR FROM 34': Orioles fans with a knowledge of the team's past recaptured the spirit of the late Wild Bill Hagy for one night and the result was magical. (Baltimore Sun, video included) ...

You Can't Sit Down
Published 4/25/2008 by Greg at Faith and Fear in Flushing
... all right. I wouldn't remember Doc's eleventh Shea start so fondly if it weren't for what Dennis began doing at the outset of '84, for the passion he unleashed in the rest of us. That's why you can't tell the story of a stadium via only its ballplayers. That's why sometimes, at the risk of being rude, you just can't sit down, no matter what the guy behind you says. Another tale of another fan of another team from another ballpark in another time, very much worth reading here.

If Scott Templeton Described This Music Video, You’d Swear He Made It All Up
Published 5/15/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... thing, but if the planets have aligned in 2008 for a salute to Wild Bill Hagy (rather than say, David Sequi), that’s not a bad thing at all. ...

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