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Since its opening, Oriole Park has been widely hailed as one of the best stadiums in baseball and credited with starting a wave of neotraditional ballparks after the cookie-cutter stadiums of the mid to late 20th century.
Opened in 1992 as the home of the American League Baltimore Orioles and the first baseball-only Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium built in decades, Camden Yards had a profound influence on stadium design in the United States.
4 Αυγ 2022 · Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which opened 30 years ago this summer, is revered for its design and downtown location. But its influence—along with its lessons—extends beyond architecture.
31 Μαρ 2012 · Baseball author and political commentator George Will once called Oriole Park one of the three most important developments in baseball in the postwar era, along with Jackie Robinson 's breaking the game's color barrier and the advent of free agency. Nothing that has happened over the past 20 years has caused him to change that opinion.
4 Ιαν 2022 · George Will, the noted political commentator, baseball author and fan, calls Oriole Park at Camden Yards one of baseball’s three most important developments since World War II, along with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier and free agency. He is not alone in his assessment.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Stadium Authority was formed in 1986 and a new state commission that year recommended a 70,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Lansdowne in Baltimore County. Their findings touted the beltway-adjacent site because it was equidistant from Baltimore City to Washington.
History of Camden Yards. Oriole Park at Camden Yards became the home of Baltimore’s premier baseball stadium in the spring of 1992. Construction began in 1988, with a large amount of building to be done in a short amount of time.
