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Not a dome or Port Covington stadium, Camden Yards hosts 25th home opener

The Orioles don't play in a dome, and don't call it a stadium.

It's a ballpark.

Despite all the alternate plans — proposals for a dome, a multipurpose stadium to attract a football team back to town, handfuls of alternate sites — Baltimore ended up with a baseball-specific ballpark on a former industrial site.

"It's fascinating. Back in the '60s, when that was all the rage … everyone was trying to get one," said Janet Marie Smith, who served as the vice president of planning and design for the Orioles during the development and construction of Camden Yards.