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Peter G. Angelos became the owner of the Baltimore Orioles on Aug. 2, 1993, leading a group of investors in purchasing the Major League Baseball team for $173 million -- a record price at the time. Angelos' group, which included prominent Marylanders such as novelist Tom Clancy, comic book mogul Stephen A. Geppi, producer and director Barry Levinson and broadcaster Jim McKay, among others, bought the team from Eli S. Jacobs by submitting the winning bid during a bankcruptcy auction. Angelos was born in Pittsburgh on July 4, 1929. He came to Baltimore at 11, was elected to the City Council at 30 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor at 38. Angelos graduated from University of Baltimore Law School...
Peter G. Angelos became the owner of the Baltimore Orioles on Aug. 2, 1993, leading a group of investors in purchasing the Major League Baseball team for $173 million -- a record price at the time. Angelos' group, which included prominent Marylanders such as novelist Tom Clancy, comic book mogul Stephen A. Geppi, producer and director Barry Levinson and broadcaster Jim McKay, among others, bought the team from Eli S. Jacobs by submitting the winning bid during a bankcruptcy auction. Angelos was born in Pittsburgh on July 4, 1929. He came to Baltimore at 11, was elected to the City Council at 30 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor at 38. Angelos graduated from University of Baltimore Law School and went on to a lucrative career in trial law, specializing in cases involving harmful products, professional malpractice, and personal injury. His firm, the Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, has attorneys and locations in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The Orioles enjoyed some success early in the Angelos era, making the postseason as a wild card team in 1996 and winning the American League East division title in 1997. But Angelos fired manager Davey Johnson after the '97 season, and 10 straight losing seasons followed ('97-'07). Angelos went through five different managers during that period. The organization's continued struggles and competition from a new franchise in Washington, D.C., the Nationals, led to increased frustration with the Orioles owner among many fans and declining attendance at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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O's expected to take deliberate approach
On Friday, the first day that players were able to sign with new teams, the Orioles made no contract offers to any available free agents.
Andy MacPhail, the club's president of baseball operations, said he spent more than an hour Friday with owner...Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Major League Baseball, Carlos Delgado, Dining and Drinking, John Lackey
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O's positioned to be buyers in free agency
With a down economy, multiple teams crying poor and little money invested in future payrolls, the Orioles are perhaps in a better financial position this offseason than they have been in more than a decade.
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Odds look good for O's return to Cuba
Ten years after the Orioles made their controversial goodwill trip to Cuba, club owner Peter Angelos apparently would like to take another shot at improving relations between the United States and the isolated island nation with a new round of baseball...Tags: B.J. Surhoff, Fidel Castro, Foreign Aid, Spring Training, Major League Baseball
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U.S. and Cuba look to bridge gap through baseball
The Associated Press"Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba? Americans ranging from 12-year-old ballplayers to softballing senior citizens are visiting the communist...Tags: Richard Nixon, Heavy Engineering, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Treasury, National Government
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American softball players find friendly reception as sports diplomats in Cuba
Associated Press WriterHAVANA (AP) — Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Treasury, National Government, Children, Fidel Castro
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Walters Art Museum gala
All it took was a brief scan of the crowd at the Walters Art Museum gala to notice there was a little something different at this party. A bright red miter drifted amid a sea of bobbing bare heads. A set of enormous puffed velvet sleeves rubbed...Tags: Major League Baseball, Museum Dioramas, Lawyers, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Costumes (clothing)
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Organization makes important contributions
When Betty G. Foster was at risk of losing her Penn North rowhouse to a tax sale last year, she turned to the Baltimore housing department for help. "I broke down on the phone," she said, recounting her discussion with Reginald Scriber, the agency's...Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Government, Government, William Donald Schaefer, Journalism
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Magna seeks Jan. auction of Md. racetracks
Baltimore Sun reporterMagna Entertainment Corp., owner of Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park, has asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to auction its Maryland racetracks early next year, under the condition that potential buyers promise not to move the cherished...Tags: Trials, Casino and Gambling Industry, Triple Crown, Major League Baseball, Judges
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Shriver steps up so classic can continue
Hall of Famer and Baltimore native Pam Shriver approaches her annual charity tennis classic in much the same way the U.S. Postal Service goes about delivering mail. Nothing is going to stop it. "I think there is still a great desire to have that one...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Social Services, Bob Bryan, Andy Roddick
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Four Corners: Who are the best and worst owners in Major League Baseball?
Steinbrenners are best
Bill Kline | Allentown Morning Call
To succeed in business, buy resources, hire good people and get the hell out of the way. In that regard, baseball's best owners are the Steinbrenner boys in New York.
Like their old man George,...Tags: Terry Francona, Theo Epstein, Government, Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball
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Who are best and worst owners in baseball?
Angels rule; Royals? Yuck David Glass hasn't won much of anything since he took over the Royals in 2000. But the former Wal-Mart CEO does win one contest, if just barely over Peter Angelos: worst owner. Best owner? Arte Moreno has done more than just...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Florida Marlins, Jeffrey Loria, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Arte Moreno
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Who are the best and worst owners in baseball?
Royals have worst Ethan Skolnick, Sun Sentinel David Glass hasn't won much of anything since he took over the Royals in 2000. But the former Wal-Mart CEO does win one contest, if just barely over Peter Angelos: worst owner. The Royals have had just...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Florida Marlins, Jeffrey Loria, Boston Red Sox, Dining and Drinking
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