mdhsphotographs: Old Terrapin Park, aka Orioles Park1938Present...

mdhsphotographs:

Old Terrapin Park, aka Orioles Park

1938

Present day East 30th Street (to the north), East 29th Street (to the south), Barclay Street (to the west), and Greenmount Avenue (to the east), Baltimore, Maryland

Unidentified photographer

Subject Vertical File (Baltimore - Stadiums)

Maryland Historical Society

[SVF]

Frederick “Fritz” Maisel at Oriole Park

Oriole Park, Baltimore, Maryland

circa 1931

Robert F. Kniesche (1906-1976)

4x5 inch acetate negative

Kniesche Collection

Maryland Historical Society

PP79.18

Read about the history of the Baltimore Orioles and Oriole Park, which burned July 4, 1944, in Lost City: The Burning of Oriole Park on underbelly.

Let’s Go O’s! See you at Game 2!

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