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By GEORGE WEIGEL    February 9, 2019 6:30 AM

Hard as it may be for those who know them only from their recent woes, the Baltimore Orioles won more games than any other team in baseball’s major leagues for almost a quarter century, from 1960 to 1983, the year of their last world championship.

The driver of that remarkable success was something called the “Oriole Way,” several lifetimes of baseball experience distilled into a written manual of instructions on Playing Baseball Right that the organization began inculcating in its rookies and draftees in Bluefield, W.Va., at the bottom-of-the-barrel Appalachian League, and continued preaching up to and through the major-league level.  But something else was needed to turn routine competitiveness into four World Series appearances in six years. That human pivot in Baltimore’s baseball fortunes was the greatest player I ever saw bend games to his will: Frank Robinson, who died on February 7 at age 83. Read more HERE.