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(10) How it's done. How it looked when only 28,000 fans showed up to celebrate. No championship is official until post-season merch is donned and goes on sale. The era of good feeling was brief. The O’s lost in the first round in 2023-24 and fell apart in 2025.

(9) I was at the ballpark when it opened, for Cal's record-breaking game, and the night the Orioles won the 2023 American League Division, their first post-visit appearance since 2014, sitting in the TV booth with HOFer Jim Palmer and Ben McDonald.

(8) Eutaw Street, where Babe Ruth's father once kept a saloon, became a promenade open 24/7, the first so called "outfield experience" and the retro boom in ballpark design, which was not what Janet Marie Smith and Larry Lucchino had in mind.

(6) The decision to build the Orioles’ new home downtown and to set it against the B & O warehouse changed the way baseball is seen and how it is viewed, ending the reign of concrete multi-purpose donut ballparks.

(7) How it looked in 1916.

(5) That night he had two hits, two RBI, both with two strikes on him. More importantly, the ball went where he wanted it to go.

(4) He was having trouble with his “load,” as players like to say, figuring out where and when in the swing to move forward, shifting his weight from back to front.

(3)There’s no getting away from analytics which dictated as soon as he turned pro that he had to change his swing. When he struggles, he goes back to what he first learned.

(2) We watched his struggling third baseman, Alex Bregman, take extra batting practice. “He’s tinkering,” Dusty said. “He’ll get it.”

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