Talk:Baltimore Memorial Stadium

Memorial stadium
Mayor Martin J. O'Malley tore it down. It just came up again in the news, with quote because the source will expire soon:
 * ''While he acknowledged they may have "outlived their usefulness," he said that's not why the city is removing them - it's because Mayor Martin O'Malley wants his mark on the city, not a former mayor's.
 * ''They're not his'
 * ''If O'Malley thought they were bad, that would be one thing," Schaefer said. "He's taking them down because they're not his, and that's the only reason. He tore down Memorial Stadium for no reason, a terrible mistake, like tearing down the Colosseum in Rome. ... I'm surprised he left the light bulb arches up as long as he did." OMalley spokeswoman Raquel Guillory said there have been intense efforts to preserve and restore historic buildings on the west side, including the Hippodrome Theatre. But the arches, she said, simply weren't effective. "Change is sometimes good," she said. "We're happy to see them come down."

Anyhow, it is currently housing for the elderly and a rec center. I have not yet seen it since it should never have been torn down completely. --Noitall 05:50, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

It's kind of like when they tore down Comiskey Park. I could have gone to see it, but declined until they had paved it over. In my mind, it went to Baseball Heaven, as it were. But it's always about the here-and-now, especially with politicians. Wahkeenah 06:10, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Kudos on the old photo. You need one showing the baseball field. :) Wahkeenah 06:12, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I uploaded a couple more interesting photos at Oriole Park and Union Park. --Noitall 06:18, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not seeing them. Maybe my PC is acting up. I go to the picture page and there is nothing there, either. :( Wahkeenah 06:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Plane Crash
Wasn't there a plane crash in the upperdeck after a Colt game? Hopefully someone has more information they could place in the article. OsFan 14:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, there was. I'm sure you can find many references to it on the internet. Then you can add that info to the article. :) Wahkeenah 16:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It happened on December 19, 1976, according to this writeup. I remember watching the aftermath on TV. I think the actual crash happened during a TV commercial following the game. Wahkeenah 19:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I added it to the article. Wahkeenah 23:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Sportsman's Park
The Sportsman's Park article is about the park in St. Louis. Someone will need to create a page for the park with that name in Baltimore. 65.24.249.74 00:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There was no Sportsman's Park in Baltimore. Someone is confused. Sportsman's Park was the home of the Browns in St. Louis before they moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles. Wahkeenah 00:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Sorry for the confusion. I had assumed that "Baltimore Orioles" had meant Baltimore Orioles and not "St. Louis Browns". Thus, I assumed that there must have been a stadium in Baltimore called "Sportsman's Park" that the Baltimore Orioles played in before Memorial Stadium was built. I'm not trying to be stupid about it -- the Baltimore Orioles were one of the most famous minor league teams, with a lot of history before the Browns moved to town and took their name. Can something be done in the heading to clear up this confusion?
 * The real issue might be, what is the point of the "succession box"? Is it in reference to the major league team's succession of ballparks (as this usage appears to be)? Or is it in reference to the stadium's existence in the city? If that latter, it doesn't really work, because Memorial Stadium was used for other purposes for several years after it was abandoned by the Orioles. And 1954 is not the first year of its use, only the first year that the major league Orioles used it. If you're looking at the minor league team's succession, it was July of 1944 that they moved from Oriole Park to Baltimore Stadium, which was then rebuilt in-place as Memorial Stadium in 1948 or some such. Wahkeenah 03:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * These succession boxes appear in many places, so I wouldn't want to make another change without understanding the significance of it. (I've already done more than enough of that here.)  But, could the box be something like this?  65.24.249.74 12:15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, that seems good, since it removes the ambiguity, and probably addresses what the original editor was trying to get at. I'm inclined to think that these succession boxes, like the feature called "categories", is excessive, and something that editors obsess over. (Obviously, I don't). But I think you've captured the intent properly. Wahkeenah 15:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

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Tenants
The NASL Comets played its 1975 home matches on the campus of Towson State University (now Towson University) because Memorial Stadium was too big for the crowds the team was drawing. The source of this information was the article titled "Outdoor Soccer Lost Three Teams In Baltimore," written by The Baltimore Sun's Mike Klingaman for the December/January, 1986 issue of Soccer Digest. The Ink Daddy! (talk) 07:36, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Memorial Stadium easily held 50,000. If they were drawing bigger crowds than that, why did they move to the west coast? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 08:00, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Municipal Stadium (Baltimore)
I think a big part of the problem with a certain anonymous user taking text dumps on this page goes back to the inclusion of the previous stadium on the same site in this article rather than in its own article. There's a lot of information for the former stadium and it should be moved to its own page so this page can focus on the stadium it's named for. -- Pemilligan (talk) 02:35, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Babe Ruth Stadium
The name "Babe Ruth Stadium" does not refer to the second stadium. I have two old postcards in my collection, both showing the first stadium and clearly titled "Babe Ruth Stadium". I don't know the copyright status, so I can't upload any images. Elsquared (talk) 02:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Article move
Moving this article from Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) to Baltimore Memorial Stadium was a mistake. WP:COMMONNAME should prevail here: Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources) as such names will usually best fit the five criteria listed above. The vast majority of references use "Memorial Stadium". I don't think I've ever seen "Baltimore Memorial Stadium" used outside of this page. It should be moved back. -- Pemilligan (talk) 12:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)