Your chance to win 'An Evening with Brooks' tickets
Thanks to the wonderful people in The Baltimore Sun's marketing department, I've acquired two tickets to the Babe Ruth Museum's fall gala, "An Evening with Brooks."
The event will take place Monday, Oct. 26, at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and the program is tentatively scheduled from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Since there are a lot of faithful O's on Deck readers -- and it's too hard to pick one person to receive the tickets -- I've decided to hold a trivia contest in order to determine a winner.
So, as long as you give a correct answer to the question below, you'll have a chance to win the two tickets. I'll keep track of the people who submit a correct answer and use a random method to determine who gets the tickets if there is more than one person who is right.
Please be sure to include a contact e-mail address with your comment so that I'll be able to get in touch with you if you're the winner of the tickets. Obviously, I won't be publishing these comments because I don't want to give away the correct answer.
Finally, it's possible that there is more than one correct way to answer the question. While I have one solution in mind, I'll check every submission to determine if it's accurate.
With all of that out of the way, here is the question.
Brooks Robinson played his entire career as a member of the Orioles -- from the minor leagues through 23 seasons in the major leagues.
Since the Orioles selected him in the first round of the 2003 MLB draft, Nick Markakis also has played his entire career in the organization.
Using only players who spent their entire career -- minor leagues and major leagues -- with the Orioles, connect Robinson to Markakis.
Basically, you'll need to find someone who played with Robinson and spent his entire career with the Orioles. Then, you'll need to find someone who was one of that player's teammates at some point and spent his whole career in the organization. Keep doing that until you get to Markakis.
In other words, you can't use players like Frank Robinson or Melvin Mora because they spent part of their careers in other organizations.
I'll give you a hint -- it can be done by naming three other players. There might be another way to do it, but that's a good starting point to a correct guess.
Good luck. Start sending in your answers.
I'll stop accepting submissions Wednesday night at 11:59 p.m.
While we're on the topic, here is a photo gallery of different Brooks Robinson photos.
Handout photo
