All-Time Unlikely Oriole Team

Longtime Baltimore fans might have a different take on it, but when I think of these guys, it’s hardly in orange and black that I picture them.

1b -       VIC WERTZ (1954)

2b -       JOHNNY TEMPLE (1962)

3b -       RAY KNIGHT (1987)

SS -      CHICO CARRASQUEL (1959)

 C -       MATT NOKES (1995)

LF -       JOE CARTER (1998)

CF -      REGGIE JACKSON* (1976)

RF -      DWIGHT EVANS (1991)

DH -      SAMMY SOSA (2005)

PH - (r)   LOU PINIELLA (1964)

PH - (l)   Willie Kirkland (1964)

PH - (b)  BOBBY BONILLA (1995-96)

PR -       ANDY VAN SLYKE (1995)

Pitching

RH -      BOB TURLEY (1954)

RH -      KEVIN BROWN (1995)

RH -      DOUG DRABEK (1998)

LH -      FERNANDO VALENZUELA (1993)

LH -      DAVID WELLS (1996)

RP -       Don Larsen (1954)

RP -       Tom Underwood (1984)

RP -       MARK EICHORN (1994)

RP -       NORM CHARLTON (1998)

Closer -  Kerry Ligtenberg (2003)

Mgr -     OZZIE GUILLEN (1998)

Team Cheerleader -   Rex Hudler (1986)

Reserves

Paul Bako (2007)

Billy Cox (1955)

Clint Courtney (1954, 60-61)
Pete Incaviglia (1996-97)

Johnny Oates (1970, 72)

Jamie Quirk (1989)

Keith Moreland (1989)
Aurelio Rodriguez (1983)

Luis Polonia (1995)

Marv Throneberry (1961)

ERNIE WHITT (1991)

Key

*Hall of Fame

ALL CAPS = All-Star

Bold = Inspiration