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Gus Triandos: Baltimore's first sports hero
The year was 1959. I was 12 and shy to a fault. But an almost close encounter with my baseball hero, Gus Triandos, would change my life forever. Big Gus exploded onto the Baltimore baseball landscape, and into the lives of countless youngsters like me,...
Tags: Sports, Hoyt Wilhelm, Memorial Stadium, Arts and Culture, Yogi Berra
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Museums, cultural institutions taking a snow day
Schools and government offices aren't the only things closing down in anticipation of today's snowstorm. Here is a partial list, continually being updated, of cultural and commercial institutions shutting down for the day. The American Visionary Art...
Tags: Port Discovery Children's Museum, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), National Aquarium Baltimore, Sports Legends at Camden Yards, American Visionary Art Museum
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Sarasota is diamond destination for Orioles fans
For Baltimore baseball fans inspired by the Orioles' surprising success last year, spring training couldn't have come soon enough. Those who never wanted that magic season to end along with newbie Birds fans are already flocking in droves to the team's...Tags: Restaurants, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Mark Buehrle, Minnesota Twins
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Back Story: Is the Sports Legends Museum haunted?
Bolton Hill baseball and travel writer Charlie Vascellaro normally can be found hanging out at ballparks. So the opportunity to spend a night in late April at the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Station after hearing tales about ghostly occupants was...Tags: Ghosts (supernatural entities), Babe Ruth, Frank Robinson, Politics, Bolton Hill
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Jon Miller hasn't given up his connection to Baltimore
When Jon Miller arrived in Baltimore in 1983 to call Orioles games on the radio, the city was thriving. People packed restaurants and bars every night. The Orioles served as the primary reason for that, and later that year — the beloved...
Tags: Radio, ESPN (tv network), Babe Ruth, Peter G. Angelos, Entertainment
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Plight of Baltimore's Poe House attracts national attention
Native Londoner Kimberly Marie Freeman lives and works 200 miles north of Baltimore, but she's enthusiastically joining the effort to save one of the city's cultural treasures. Shutting the Edgar Allan Poe House, she says with a hint of exasperation,...Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Auction Service, Museums, Tourism and Leisure
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Summer's Calling: Master of beer and memorabilia
It's 30 minutes before game time at Camden Yards, and Greg Schwalenberg peers out at the vast expanse of empty green seats. He grimaces.
"What kind of crowd are they expecting?" he asks a nearby usher.
"Let's see, 10,000," the man replies.
"It's been...Tags: Muhammad Ali, Memorial Stadium, Marathon, Sports Legends at Camden Yards, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Mingling with baseball legends
Special to the SunIt was a grand slam get-together at Morgan State University's Murphy Fine Arts Center, as the Babe Ruth Museum presented "A Legendary Evening - Reunion of the 1966 World Champion Baltimore Orioles." Several hundred fans noshed on gourmet sandwiches,...Tags: Memorial Stadium, Education, Morgan State University, Orthopedic Surgery, Sports
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Character study
Sun StaffYou know them when you see them, or remember them beyond all others - the particularly eccentric ones who wore festive plumage, or whose wardrobes consisted mainly of Orioles give-aways, the ones who gained a special place in Baltimore's baseball memory...Tags: Game Shows, Aramark Corp., Entertainment, Prisons, Education
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Game over, but no time to quit
Sun StaffThree weeks after hip surgery, the old Baltimore Colts center is off the injured list. Buzz Nutter is back at work. He no longer blocks charging linebackers such as pro football Hall of Famers Sam Huff and Ray Nitschke. But Nutter does operate heavy...Tags: Surgery, Restaurants, Raymond Berry, Clubs and Associations, Jim Taylor
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A revived charmer still a secret while in middle of things
Special to The SunAfter 29 years as rector of Bolton Hill's Memorial Episcopal Church, Barney Farnham went looking for another Baltimore neighborhood in which to spend his retirement. Although he and his wife loved Bolton Hill, they thought that putting some distance...Tags: Babe Ruth, Bolton Hill, Homes, Restaurants, University of Maryland Medical Center
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Golden legacy
Sun StaffSandra Unitas remembers the first six days of grief as if she were a helpless observer. Her husband was dead. It didn't seem possible. She was there but she wasn't. She was devastated, weeping uncontrollably for hours at a time. But she also had a...Tags: Television, Retirement, Finance, Johnny Unitas, Elections
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