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The Baltimore-Dc-Baseball Nexxus...The Trip Index

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Here's the index to all our recent posts from Baltimore in addition to Washington, D.C. Baltimore Part one - Getting through the airport, onto transit, in addition to to our hotel was a fighting of a hurting inward the rear. Read near it here... Arriving inward Charm City . Part 2 - Soaking inward all the history Baltimore's world transit tin furnish for us... Chasing History inward Baltimore. Part iii - Game Day inward Baltimore every bit nosotros see #24 on our listing of stadiums... Game Day inward Charm City . Part 4 - Leaving is almost every bit difficult every bit arriving... Riding the Rails to Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Part one - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twenty-four hr catamenia long, non-stop journeying to sample to a greater extent than or less of the city's monuments in addition to museums... A Monumental Journey Across Washington, D.C. Part 2 - Now it's fourth dimension to see #25 on our list, a real f...

Game Twenty-Four Hours Inwards Charm City

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We've been told that the best crabcakes inwards Baltimore come upwardly from a stand upwardly at the Lexington Market. Letty's been on a mission to examine equally many equally she tin dismiss spell we're here. Watch the Video! The Charm City Purple Route stops inwards front end of our hotel on Redwood Street in addition to it's a quick, easy, in addition to costless ride to a halt 3 blocks from the market. It's a flake of a downtrodden 3 blocks, rattling like to walking through our hometown's (Los Angeles) Skid Row.  This is our 2d attempt, my married adult woman got sick a distich of days agone in addition to nosotros had to postpone our view but we're hither directly in addition to laid upwardly to go. Faidley's Seafood is inwards the dorsum of the market, allowing us to peruse all the other stands along the way. It actually reminds me of how Grand Central Market inwards L.A. was earlier all the gentrification hit. The sight...

Fields Of Dreams: Oriole Commons At Camden Yards - Baltimore, Maryland

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At a immature 23 years old, Camden Yards is already considered a classic stadium. In the early on 90's, Baltimore threw out the templates as well as told architecture theater HOK to produce them an appropriate palace to baseball. Using the massive B&O Railroad warehouse equally a backdrop, HOK went dorsum inwards fourth dimension to produce an former looking stadium amongst modern amenities.  It has had a big influence on simply nigh every baseball game stadium built since.  A lot of history here. Babe Ruth lived higher upward his father's tavern, which was located somewhere betwixt 2d base of operations as well as the correct champaign wall. Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gerigh's consecutive game streak here. Here are the stats: Opened: 1992 Surface: Kentucky Bluegrass Construction cost: $110 million Capacity: 45,971 Field dimensions: Left champaign - 333 ft; Left optic - 364 ft; optic champaign - 410 ft; cor...