Park At Camden

At Oriole Park at Camden Yards Day................Time......TV......Starters Tonight........ 7:05.... CSN....RHP Paul Wilson (3-7, 6.67)vs. RHP Josh Towers (6-5, 3.39) Tomorrow.....7:05... CSN....RHP Ryan Rupe (4-9, 7.09)vs. RHP Jason Johnson (9-6, 3.14) Thursday......3:05.....CSN... RHP Tanyon Sturtze (5-9, 5.28)vs. undecided Radio: All games on WBAL (1090 AM)

Tonight's game between the Orioles and the San Francisco Giants at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has been postponed because of rain. It has been rescheduled as part of a split, day-night doubleheader tomorrow, Saturday, June 12. Game times for Saturday's doubleheader are 3:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., with separate admissions required. Tickets and rain checks from tonight's postponement should be used for Saturday's second game, starting at 8:30 p.m.

The great irony about the conclusion of the stadium-naming imbroglio is that, of course, it was no conclusion at all.The new ballpark has a name, but we still don't know what we're going to call it.It certainly won't be Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the given name.Believe me, I have tried to envision it. Since the name was announced, I have spent much time in front of a mirror, much as Travis ("You talkin' to me?") Bickel did in "Taxi Driver," trying to make it sound right.(Pretending I'm loitering at the office coffee machine:)

The first African-American Heritage Festival closed last night after drawing more than 480,000 people over the weekend who sampled the food, exhibits and music set up around Oriole Park at Camden Yards, organizers said. "Unbelievable is the word for this. Absolutely extraordinary," said NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, who accepted Mayor Martin O'Malley's invitation to organize the event that replaced the annual AFRAM festival. "To see so many generations of people coming together from across the state and out of town to be here for this, I just think it speaks volumes."

The announced attendance for yesterday's regular-season opener at Oriole Park at Camden Yards was 44,568, but that doesn't mean there were any tickets still available. The game really was a sellout and virtually all of the 48,041 available seats were filled. Under American League rules, only paid attendance is announced. The number was less than capacity because of the large number of complimentary tickets given to Opening Week sponsors and others involved in the completion of the park. There also were two sections used for an auxiliary press box.

July 13, 1993 Oriole Park at Camden YardsFormer Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella, who died Saturday night after suffering a heart attack, was an All-Star every year from 1949 to 1956, but he didn't have much success in the midseason game, going 2-for-20, with one run scored.He had no hits in 16 plate appearances going into the eighth inning of the 1953 game when he bounced a single to center off the oldest pitcher in All-Star Game history, Satchel Paige, 47.

As "Catfish Capes," Frank Caples Jr. travels 50,000 miles every summer preparing fried catfish platters at festivals around the country. This year, the Minnesota entrepreneur plans to bring his 18-foot mobile kitchen to 40 events, including Baltimore's African American Heritage Festival, which takes place this weekend at Camden Yards. If you go The African American Heritage Festival takes place from 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday and noon-9 p.m. Sunday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

NOWHERE has the growth of tourism in Baltimore been more visible than along the Pratt Street corridor. Within a stone's throw of the street stand some of the city's crown jewels: the National Aquarium, Harborplace, Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Last weekend Baltimore celebrated the achievements of its African-American community at Afram, a cornucopia of music, dance, art and food held at Festival Hall on Pratt Street.How many of those at Afram last weekend gave it a thought?Ralph Clayton is a research library assistant at the central branch of the Pratt Library.

An offer by private investors to buy Parks Sausage Co. has let state economic development officials off the hook after they squirmed to avoid having to bail out the financially struggling firm. Parks Sausage Co. was teetering near bankruptcy when it sought help from the state in July. All it got was the cold shoulder.State officials were still stinging from criticism of an earlier proposed $1.5 million bailout of Stephens Engineering Co. Critics said Gov. Parris N. Glendening was paying back political supporter Wallace O. Stephens, who owns the floundering Prince George's County firm.