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No fans at Oriole Park at Camden Yards delays streak for Catonsville usher

Catonsville resident Joe Lease celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary with his wife, Tina, on Friday and if the Baltimore Orioles were playing a normal Major League Baseball season, with fans in the stands, he most likely would be at Oriole Park at Camden Yards working as an usher or on security duty for the game against the Boston Red Sox.

But, because the coronavirus pandemic limited the season to 60 games with no fans, his quest to work 500 straight games at the stadium is on hold.

Lease, 69, who retired after 39 years with the U.