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Memorial Stadium

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    Memorial Stadium

  • Baltimore Stadium Opened

  • Army-Navy game is played at Municipal Stadium for the first time

  • Oriole Park, home of the Baltimore Orioles (minor league), burned down

    The team moved to Municipal Stadium to finish out the 1944 season and stayed there till 1953

  • Army defeated Navy at Municiipal Stadium

  • The Baltimore Colts defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in their first game

    The Colts were a part of AAFC.

  • Reconstruction of Municipal Stadium began

    Because the stadium housed the Baltimore Orioles and Colts, it needed to be rebuilt to accomedate both.

  • Renovated version of the stadium opened

    It was renamed Memorial Stadium in honor of those who died in World War I and World War II

  • The Baltimore Colts join the NFL after th AAFC and NFL merge

    However, the team folded after this season.

  • The Dallas Texans become the Baltimore Colts

  • The St. Louis Brown, of the MLB, become the Baltimore Orioles

    From then on they called Memorial Stadium home field.

  • The Baltimore Colts won the 1959 NFL Championship

  • The Orioles won their first World Series against the LA Dodgers

  • The Orioles won their second World Series at Memorial

  • An airplace crashes on the grounds of the stadium

    The crash happened moments after the Colts played the Pittsburgh Steelers.

  • The Orioles won the World Series against the Philadelphia Philles at Veteran's Stadium

  • The Colts moved to Indianaplois

  • Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened

    The Baltimore Orioles played their final season at Memorial Stadium in 1991.

  • Memorial Stadium closed

  • Memorial Stadium was demolished