Oriole Park at Camden Yards

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Oriole Park at Camden Yards
"Camden Yards, The Yard"
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place	Baltimore , Maryland
Coordinates	39 ° 17 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 76 ° 37 ′ 18.5 ″  W Coordinates: 39 ° 17 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 76 ° 37 ′ 18.5 ″  W.
owner	Maryland Stadium Authority
start of building	June 28, 1989
opening	April 6, 1992
surface	race
costs	US $ 110 million
architect	HOK Sport + Venue + Event
capacity	48,041 (1992–1996) 48,079 (1997–2000) 48,190 (2001–2004) 48,290 (2005–2010) 45.971 (from 2011)
playing area	Left Field - 333 ft (101.5 m) Left-Center - 364 ft (110.9 m) Left-Center (deep) - 410 ft (125 m) Center Field - 400 ft (121.9 m) (Not posted ) Right Center - 373 ft (113.7 m) Right Field - 318 ft (96.9 m)
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Baltimore Orioles ( MLB ) (since 1992 )

Oriole Park at Camden Yards (often just Oriole Park ) is a baseball stadium in Baltimore , Maryland , which opened in 1992. It is the home stadium of the Major League Baseball playing Baltimore Orioles . The stadium is located in close proximity to the M&T Bank Stadium , the home ground of the Baltimore NFL team, the Baltimore Ravens .

Visitors

Between 1992 and 2000, the Orioles averaged more than 40,000 viewers per game, with a total of 3.71 million people in the 1997 season . Since then, the number of visitors in the 2009 season has fallen to 1.9 million.

The current highest attendance record is 49,828, which was set on July 10, 2005 against the Boston Red Sox . The low-attendance mark was set on April 12, 2010 when only 9,129 fans saw the Orioles playing the Tampa Bay Rays . On April 29, 2015, the stadium was virtually empty after the riot in Baltimore because of Freddie Gray. Only two scouts, a scoreboard operator and the players were in the stadium and the official attendance was 0. This marks the first time in MLB history that the audience was not allowed to attend a baseball game.

Awards and recognitions

In March 2013, Oriole Park was named the number 3 baseball field in the United States by TripAdvisor .

Other events

On October 8, 1995, Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass in Oriole Park as part of his visit.

Web links

Commons : Oriole Park at Camden Yards  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Oriole Park on the Baltimore Orioles website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ White Sox vs. Orioles - Game Recap - April 29, 2015 - ESPN. Retrieved October 31, 2018 . 
2. ↑ TripAdvisor Announces America's Top 10 Ball Parks . In: MediaRoom . ( mediaroom.com [accessed October 31, 2018]).
3. ↑ BALTIMORE EXULTS IN POPE'S HISTORIC VISIT . In: Washington Post . October 9, 1995, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed October 31, 2018]).