NEWS
By Jay Apperson and By Jay Apperson,SUN STAFF | May 25, 2001
More than three decades after playing his last game as an Oriole and nearly four months after succumbing to illness, Curt Blefary made it safely to home yesterday at Memorial Stadium. Sports fans, construction workers, a former teammate and the late slugger's widow watched as Blefary's ashes were scattered in the dirt at what's left of the old ballpark on 33rd Street, the site of his greatest athletic triumphs. For Lana Blefary, it didn't matter that the stadium is dying its own slow death, ravaged by a demolition crew.
NEWS
By Raymond Daniel Burke | April 1, 2002
TO FULLY comprehend the relevance of Opening Day in Baltimore, one needs to understand the emotional connection between a brilliant fall afternoon in a jammed-packed stadium and a quiet overcast spring day 35 years later, when a few souls gathered on the defunct field in what was left of that same ballpark. It was the top of the first in the first World Series game played in Baltimore. The Orioles had returned from the West Coast with an improbable 2-0 lead in the Series over the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.
NEWS
By Jay Apperson and Jay Apperson,SUN STAFF | May 25, 2001
More than three decades after playing his last game as an Oriole and nearly four months after succumbing to illness, Curt Blefary made it safely to home yesterday at Memorial Stadium. Sports fans, construction workers, a former teammate and the late slugger's widow watched as Blefary's ashes were scattered in the dirt at what's left of the old ballpark on 33rd Street, the site of his greatest athletic triumphs. For Lana Blefary, it didn't matter that the stadium is dying its own slow death, ravaged by a demolition crew.
NEWS
By FROM STAFF REPORTS | May 24, 2001
In Baltimore City Memorial Stadium service for Blefary closed to the public A service at which former Oriole Curt Blefary's ashes are to be scattered at Memorial Stadium will not be open to the public, an official with the contractor that is demolishing the stadium said last night. Lana Blefary had said that she wanted her late husband's fans to be able to attend the service, scheduled for this morning. But an official at Potts & Callahan said that the site is potentially dangerous, and that after consulting with its insurance company, it decided the public would not be allowed to attend.
SPORTS
By Doug Brown and Doug Brown,Sun Staff Writer | August 10, 1995
Mark Belanger considers it his good fortune that he invariably was with the right team at the right time during his 18 years in the big leagues.Most of those teams, of course, were the Orioles.Only twice was he with teams that finished lower than third, the Orioles of 1967 (tied for sixth) and 1978 (fourth). His only other non-Orioles team, the 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers, was second. Even when he was progressing through the Orioles' minor-league system, Belanger's teams were either first, second third.
SPORTS
By Mike Klingaman, The Baltimore Sun | September 9, 2012
Sept. 10, 2000: Down by 17 points, the Ravens storm back to defeat visiting Jacksonville, 39-36 - their first victory over the Jaguars in the team's five-year history. Tony Banks' 29-yard touchdown pass to Shannon Sharpe in the final minute gives Baltimore its second straight victory. Sept. 11, 1976 : Twelfth-ranked Maryland rolls over Richmond, 31-7, in its football opener - the first of 11 straight victories for the Cotton Bowl-bound Terps . Led by quarterback Mark Manges and tailback Steve Atkins, Maryland's offense gains 421 yards.