BALTIMORE - Memorial Stadium (53,371 | 1950 - 2002)

I've always wondered what a renovated Memorial Stadium would have looked like. Are there any renders out there?

en1044 said:

I've always wondered what a renovated Memorial Stadium would have looked like. Are there any renders out there?

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Renovated for which sport? They would have needed to choose one or the other.

adeaide said:

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One part of the renovation plan eventually got built. The additions around the perimeter went up in the early '80's and addressed one of the most glaring issues, a shortage of restroom facilities for women. They were all in those towers and most of what were womens were converted to mens.

Not more pictures of this beautifull dead lady?
I think I realy like it in baseball mode and even in football mode it seems to have its charms. I like the way the upper tire stops. Maybe commercially not so interesting, but I like it.

So originally it was a football stadium, or was it directly designed for both sports?

skaP187 said:

So originally it was a football stadium, or was it directly designed for both sports?

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The old stadium was designed for both football and track, but accommodated baseball out of necessity from 1944-49, after the minor league Orioles had their own park (Oriole Park V, originally Terrapin Park) burn down on July 3, 1944.

Ironically the Orioles rose from the ashes to win the minor league championship that year, and the large crowds they drew then and in the next few years helped attract the old St. Louis Browns in 1953, becoming the new major league Orioles.

Oh my God then I fell in love with something I normally hate.
An athletics stadium where they play football, also suitable for baseball.
Can it get any wurse?
That´s the fun if you sometimes look at things without knowing I guess.

mrakbaseball said:

Plane crash in the upper deck.

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That happened a few minutes after the Colts had lost a playoff game to the Steelers, 40-14. Fortunately most of the crowd left early. The pilot tried to buzz the stadium (later claimed he wanted to land on the field), pulled up sharply, and stalled, which explains the weird angle of the plane. He had recently been fired as a local bus driver, was already facing charges of dropping rolls of toilet paper from his plane on a restaurant that had ejected him earlier in the month, and making a bomb threat on the restaurant. He served three months in jail for the plane stunt, lost his pilot's license, and eventually spent the next few years in and out of jail and psych wards.

I remember the plane stunt....the sportscasters were at a loss for words!

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impressive

The lower bowl was built in 1950 to improve the stadium for the minor league Orioles and was designed to be quickly expandable in the event Baltimore got a major league team. Baltimore was the 6th largest city in the country at the time, and the largest without MLB other than Los Angeles, but baseball was completely east of the Mississippi then, as the teams traveled by train. The city started construction of the upper deck in '53. even before it was known the Browns would move there. It was an early example of "if they build it, they will come!"