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By Zach Helfand and The Baltimore Sun | August 11, 2012
When Eddie Murray's sculpture is unveiled at Camden Yards this afternoon, if the sun catches the bronze just so, onlookers might get a glimpse of themselves in the reflection. It's fitting for the Orioles' most prolific hitter ever. Writers, and even some fans who didn't like Murray's personality, projected their own bitterness onto him for his entire career. For the fans who didn't care what they read, only what they saw, they'll have their Eddie. They can cheer the man today, and later they can bring their kids to the statue, point and say, "There's one of the best switch hitters to ever play the game.
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July 16, 1991
PHILADELPHIA -- Former Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray has been a fixture at first base during his 15-year career, but last night, he made a rare appearance at third base in the eighth inning for the Los Angeles Dodgers.It was the second time since going to the Dodgers that Murray was used there, the first time coming at the end of a 22-inning game two years ago. Murray had no chances in the Dodgers' 9-8 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.With the Orioles in 1978, his second season in the major leagues, Murray started the season as the third baseman, but the experiment lasted only three games.
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By DAN RODRICKS | July 24, 1996
It never bothered me that Eddie Clarence Murray kept his uniform clean and his mouth shut. The man produced, week in and week out, year after year. The Orioles went to two World Series within five seasons during the peak of Murray's 12-year run here, and they haven't been to one since.The Eddie trade of 1988 never should have happened. He deserved respect and an opportunity to play his entire career with the Orioles, just as Cal Ripken has. What he got, instead, were cheap shots from the then-blustery, now-dead Edward Bennett Williams, sports commentators and foul-mouthed fans who took all their frustrations out on the Sphinx of first base, criticizing him for not getting his uniform dirty, not putting out.No wonder Eddie left bitter.
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By MIKE PRESTON | July 27, 2003
WHEN Eddie Murray is inducted into the Hall of Fame today, Major League Baseball will show an appreciation of the superstar that he didn't receive as a player, either nationally or in Baltimore. Even though Murray was one of the sport's best clutch hitters and switch-hitters, and the best hitter to wear an Orioles uniform, his departure from Baltimore in 1988 was one of the lowest moments in this city's sports history, as sad as the Colts leaving for Indianapolis, and as embarrassing as Colts officials allowing quarterback John Unitas to wear a San Diego Chargers uniform.
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By LAURA VECSEY | July 27, 2003
WILL they chant his name in Cooperstown, the way they used to at Memorial Stadium, when the quiet kid out of Los Angeles took over first base for the Orioles, then never stopped producing hits and homers and runs, all the way back to Camden Yards? Will they chant "Ed-die, Ed-die" like they used to, before anyone suspected Eddie Murray would pose a frustrating puzzle and perplex Baltimore fans who revered baseball's greatest switch-hitter this side of Mickey Mantle but could not always, unconditionally, extend their love?
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July 28, 2003
Excerpts from Eddie Murray's speech yesterday at Cooperstown: A nice, little sea of black and orange out there. It's a wonderful thing. I'm thankful to be here today. It's a dream, one of the few things I never dreamed. The game, I knew I was going to do. It's a great honor to be here today. When Ted Williams was here and inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way I'm proud to be in his company that way. I was never one much on words.