Grich was part of one of the best AAA teams ever here in 1971.
I bummed 5 bucks off him at Silver Stadium the night he was inducted into the Red Wings Hall of Fame circa 1989!
Remember the eye black he always wore?
I do remember the Orioles seemed loaded forever back in those days -- Grich and Baylor led the pack -- there was also a guy named Roger Freed (also deceased) who looked like he might have been the best hitter of the lot, but he never really made it. Coggins, Bumbry, DeCinces, Dauer, Wayne Garland, Don Hood, Jesse Jefferson, Ross Grimsley -- a lot of those guys with promise passed through Rochester on their way to Baltimore.