This is the setting, after all, that transformed professional sports as few other forces ever have, synergizing team and town and making the venue the star attraction.
The team has risen (though never to the World Series) and fallen (often quite far) in the decades since, and now it is cresting again.
John took a seat in the home dugout one recent afternoon while the visiting Mets took batting practice, pausing now and then to greet people by name.
The clubhouse manager, Fred Tyler, whose family has worked for the team since it moved from St. Louis in 1954, got a hearty hello.
“We had lost the Colts and there was some concern about the economics of professional sports and whether the Orioles might be attracted.
Persons:
Peter Angelos, Peter, John, Fred Tyler, Louis, Grayson Rodriguez, Angelos, Buck Showalter —, Kurt Schmoke, “, ”
Organizations:
Oriole, Camden, Orioles, Mets, American League East, Colts, Stadium Authority
Locations:
St, Baltimore