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Baltimore Memorial Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, that formerly stood on 33rd Street on an oversized block officially called Venable Park, a former city park from the 1920s. The site was bound by Ellerslie Avenue to the west, 36th Street to the north, and Ednor Road to the east.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, commonly known as Camden Yards, is a baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, and the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s. [8] It was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium.
The Ravens played its first two seasons at Memorial Stadium, then moved into a new stadium at Camden Yards, whereupon the band was renamed Baltimore's Marching Ravens. Meanwhile, the now-Indianapolis Colts never did return to Memorial Stadium, as by the time the NFL's scheduling formula brought them back to Baltimore, the Ravens had moved into ...
Baltimore: Baltimore Orioles: 44,970 1992 [5] Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium: Annapolis: Navy Midshipmen Annapolis Blues FC: 34,000 1959 [6] Xfinity Center: College Park: Maryland Terrapins: 17,950 2002 [7] Laurel Park Racecourse: Laurel: N/A 15,105 1911 [8] CFG Bank Arena: Baltimore: 14,000 1962 Johnny Unitas Stadium: Towson: Towson ...
Diagram of the 1889 ballpark. The Orioles moved four blocks north and opened new Oriole Park, retroactively called Oriole Park II.The ballpark sat on a roughly rectangular block bounded by 10th Street (later renamed 29th Street) on the north and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) on the east, 9th Street (later renamed 28th Street) was to the south, and Barclay Street on the west.
The new book 'The Stadium' chronicles the interaction of people, places and ideas, segregation both legal and de facto, mingling and isolation, money and power. Stadiums are more than a symbol.
Memorial Stadium received significant upgrades in terms of athlete and administrative space when it constructed both its North and South End Zone facilities across the previous decade.
The Baltimore Stallions and Baltimore Ravens football teams played at Memorial Stadium between 1994 and 1997. Memorial Stadium was demolished in 2002. The demolition of the stadium and its parking lots left a giant 32-acre hole in the center of the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside community.