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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.
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.
In 1950, the stadium was expanded to become Memorial Stadium. At its largest, Memorial Stadium seated 65,000 fans. The Orioles played their last game at the stadium in 1991 before departing for the newly constructed Oriole Park at Camden Yards in downtown Baltimore. The Baltimore Stallions and Baltimore Ravens football teams played at Memorial ...
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.
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 their new stadium. Played on November 29, 1998, the Colts' first game in Baltimore since the 1983 season ended in a 38–31 win for the Ravens.
Oct 26, 2024; Bloomington, Indiana, USA; Indiana Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti walks back to the locker room after beating the Washington Huskies at Memorial Stadium.
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 ...