Opening day is no ordinary event on the sports calendar. The first day of baseball season is one of the longest standing traditions in North American sports. It’s the unofficial first day of summer, where optimism is high across the continent that the local nine is destined to hoist the World Series trophy by season’s end.
The same is true in Baltimore, a baseball town through and through where the sport has dug its roots deep. Seventy years ago, the St. Louis Browns came to town and took on the name Baltimore Orioles...