Ten New Year\u2019s resolutions for the Orioles heading into 2026<\/a> (The Baltimore Sun)
It\u2019s time to stop dwelling on how much last year sucked and instead think about the ways this year could be better.<\/p>\nBirthdays and Orioles anniversaries<\/p>\n
Nothing of particular note has happened involving the Orioles on the first day of the year. Maybe that will change today! But probably not.<\/p>\n
There are a few former Orioles who were born on this day. They are: 2012 outfielder Xavier Avery, 2006 infielder\/outfielder Fernando Tatis, and 1958 infielder Foster Castleman.<\/p>\n
Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: midnight rider Paul Revere (1735), early American flagmaker Betsy Ross (1752), author E. M. Forster (1879), longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (1895), baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg (1911), and DJ Grandmaster Flash (1958).<\/p>\n
On this day in history\u2026<\/p>\n
In 45 BC, January 1 marked the beginning of a new year for the first time in the Roman Republic as the Julian calendar, named after Julius Caesar, went into effect. The calendar remained in use in areas influenced by Rome for over 1,500 years before it started being replaced by the Gregorian calendar that remains in use today.<\/p>\n
In 1808 AD, on the first day this was permitted by the Constitution, the United States banned the importation of enslaved people.<\/p>\n
In 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein was first published. At the time of its publication, Shelley chose to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
In 1902, Michigan and Stanford played a college bowl game, which at the time billed itself as the Tournament East-West Football Game and today is known as the Rose Bowl. Michigan was a 49-0 winner in the game. This year\u2019s edition of the Rose Bowl will be played today between Alabama and Indiana as part of the quarterfinal round of the college football playoff.<\/p>\n
A random Orioles trivia question<\/p>\n
I received a book billing itself as The Big Book of Baltimore Orioles Trivia for Christmas. In it are 100 trivia questions. I\u2019ll include them in my Bird Droppings, skipping stupidly obvious questions like \u201cWhat year did the Orioles begin play at Memorial Stadium?\u201d and St. Louis Browns-related questions, until we\u2019ve exhausted the list. Here is question 1:<\/p>\n
What was the Orioles record in 1970?<\/p>\n
The book lists multiple choice answers, but I thought that would make it too easy for people on this site. If you are of an age that you remember the 1970 season, feel free to share a memory with us.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the way it is in Birdland on January 1. Have a safe new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve made it! The cursed year 2025 is over and you have survived. 2026 will surely bring its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,38570,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-501500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-bird-droppings","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115819999889046087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}