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The Outsized Legacy of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium
Camden Yards may have been a groundbreaking project, but plenty of locals still long for a less stylish sports past.
Quality baseball has returned to Baltimore this September. Just not where most Orioles fans remember watching games that mattered.
While Camden Yards has supplied its own playoff memories (two consecutive ALCS appearances in 1996 and '97), many of the Orioles’ defining moments occurred in Memorial Stadium, a place as architecturally forgettable as any other multi-sport facility of its time. But as banal as it appeared (and as annoying as game days could be to neighbors), Memorial Stadium hosted an impressive number of culturally defining moments delivered by local heroes; priceless stuff for a city whose civic identity is so closely tied to sports.