The Sun Remembers This Week in Baltimore Sports: Feb. 15-21
Orioles outfielder Adam Jones meets with reporters during spring training at Fort Lauderdale Stadium in February 2008. (Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun)
Feb. 18, 2008: Adam Jones, an outfielder acquired from the Seattle Mariners in the offseason, arrives at spring training and is told by Orioles manager Dave Trembley to shave his goatee. “This is all I’ve grown in 22 years,” Jones says. “It’s going to be a little weird. But meeting the guys, that’s going to be the hardest part. It took me four or five years to remember the names in Seattle. Now I’ve got to learn the names all over again.”
Feb. 19, 2002: No. 2 Seton Keough holds No. 7 Catonsville scoreless for 11 minutes, 45 seconds — including the entire third quarter — in a 67-37 girls basketball victory over its neighborhood rival. The Gators score 28 unanswered points in improving to 23-5.
Feb. 17, 2002: In one of the last games at Cole Field House, Maryland rips No. 1 Duke, 87-73, before a sellout crowd. Chris Wilcox scores a career-high 23 points and Steve Blake gets 13 assists for the No. 3 Terps.
Feb. 19, 1991: Danny Bickell, a 112-pound wrestler at Oakland Mills, wins the Howard County championship while competing with a dislocated elbow that renders his left arm useless.
Feb. 21, 1982: He scores only two points, but Dunbar’s Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues is voted Most Valuable Player of the Baltimore City Public Schools Basketball Tournament in leading the Poets past Lake Clifton, 63-47 in the final at Morgan State. Bogues, who stands 5 feet 3, shaves three minutes off the clock with a dazzling display of dribbling as Dunbar improves to 26-0.
Feb. 21, 1971: Clark Graebner rallies for a five-set victory over Cliff Richey, the No. 1-ranked U.S. player, in the final of the Sunpapers-sponsored U.S. National Indoor Open tennis championships in Salisbury. Graebner, a bespectacled New Yorker, wins, 2-6, 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-0.
Feb. 15, 1969: Using a computer, Orioles second baseman Davey Johnson determines the team’s most productive lineup, based on 1968 statistics. Result? Johnson should bat second, not sixth as on manager Earl Weaver’s card. “Maybe if I spread the word around, I’ll get to the plate more this season,” he says.
Feb. 16, 1959: Warrenell “Boom Boom” Lester, a popular heavyweight boxer from Bel Air, loses on a 10th-round knockout to Wayne Bethea of New York at the Coliseum. Floored by a vicious right hook, Lester lies unconscious for five minutes and is unable to leave the ring for 20 more.
Feb. 16, 1931: Madison “Buzz” Nutter, the center on the Colts’ NFL championship teams of 1958 and 1959. Nutter died in 2008.
