Mo Gaba’s mother chuckles at the thought of how he would react if he could be at Camden Yards on Saturday for his official recognition as an Orioles Hall of Fame inductee.
“He’d be like, ‘Oh, Mom, this is pretty cool. I’m being inducted to the Hall of Fame,’” Sonsy Gaba said Friday from the seventh floor of the B&O Warehouse. “He’d just say it’s pretty cool. That’d be the typical teenager answer.”
Gaba, the 14-year-old Orioles superfan who died in July 2020 the same day he was honored as the recipient of the Wild Bill Hagy Award, will be recognized before Saturday’s game at Oriole Park along with the organization’s 2021 Hall of Fame class of shortstop J.