It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, which is always how it should be at Oriole Park, in the shadow of the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards. This is the setting, after all, that transformed professional sports as few other forces ever have, synergizing team and town and making the venue the star attraction.
That happened in 1992, the year before Peter Angelos, a prominent trial lawyer, bought his hometown Orioles. The team has risen (though never to the World Series) and fallen (often quite far) in the decades since, and now it is cresting again. Peter, 94, is retired, and his son John, 56, is the team’s managing partner.