The O’s are playing great baseball.
They’re tied with the New York Yankees atop the American League East with just 20 games to play in the regular season. They've already won 80 games and need to win two more to assure a winning season.
On Thursday afternoon they will try to sweep AL East rivals the Tampa Bay Rays downtown at Oriole Park at Camden Yards before heading to the West Coast for series with the Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners.
Right now the city is buzzing with excitement about a team it has learned to forget by the All-Star break for the most part during the past 14 years of losing seasons.
But when the O’s called Memorial Stadium and North Baltimore home that usually wasn’t the case.
From the time the St. Louis Browns became the Baltimore Orioles and began playing at Memorial Stadium in 1954, to the final game on 33rd Street against the Detroit Tigers 1991, the Orioles made the playoff eight times, played in the World Series six times and won it three times, according to Baseball-Reference.com.
So Patch wants readers to share their favorite Orioles memories from Memorial Stadium in the comments section.
Double-headers where you didn't have to leave between games. The only MLB fight I've eye-witnessed, Lee May got HBP ran out to the mound and fought the pitcher. The smell. Food, stale beer, sweat, urine, cigarette smoke all in mixed into one. Wild Bill. My aunt was sitting right where the plane crashed. Those huge light towers. My only regret is that I never got to see the Colts there. So many memories.
I lived behind Memorial Stadium for 20 years, so I have many memories of the games and babysitting for the players' kids. My favorite memory was taking my own kids when they were very young to the finall game at the stadium. There was a mixture of sadness and joy. By the time the fireworks began, both of my boys were sound asleep in their seats!