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… "Baseball came to Westminster the year after the end
of the Civil War. Bat-and-ball games had been played since time immemorial, but
modern baseball is descended from the game as played in New York City in the
1840s."
Hershberger records that one of the earliest references to
baseball in Carroll was the "Olympian Base Ball Club (which) was founded
on April 14, 1866."
That may just put Carroll County ahead of Baltimore. A
number of media sources, including VisitBaltimore.org, the website for
Baltimore Convention & Tourism Board, reports the first mention of baseball
in Baltimore came in 1882, "when Harry Vonderhorst sponsored a Baltimore
team in" what was then known as the American Association of baseball
clubs, (1882-1891.)
Baltimore Orioles spring training
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Last Sunday, the Baltimore Orioles pitchers began the annual
two-month
spring training ritual at the
Ed Smith Stadium
Complex in Sarasota, Florida. When this writer arrived last Saturday in
Sarasota, the temperatures were unseasonally warm, but certainly not as hot as
Buck Showalter, the 55-year-old DeFuniak Springs Florida native and returning
Orioles manager must be feeling.
Dayhoff photos sports,
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By
Kevin E. Dayhoff:
Last Sunday, the Baltimore Orioles pitchers began the annual
two-month
spring training ritual at the
Ed Smith Stadium
Complex in Sarasota, Florida. When this writer arrived last Saturday in
Sarasota, the temperatures were unseasonally warm, but certainly not as hot as
Buck Showalter, the 55-year-old DeFuniak Springs Florida native and returning
Orioles manager must be feeling.
Dayhoff photos sports,
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The Baltimore Orioles's 2012 Spring Training in Sarasota
goes full steam starting today at Ed Smith Stadium. By
Charles Schelle
The Birds are officially back in town.
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