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Babe Ruth No. 1 The Baltimore Sun's 175 Top athletes

I had a root canal last week. No human being should ever be subjected to anything where the words "root" and "canal" are used in the same sentence.

I had a root canal last week. No human being should ever be subjected to anything where the words "root" and "canal" are used in the same sentence.

Baltimore Sun's Top 175 athletes: Despite his big-time power and three American League Most Valuable Player awards, 1930s slugger Jimmie Foxx of Sudlersville has been overshadowed

Robert Andino and the Orioles are not stopping to look back at last year's walk-off win over the Red Sox in the regular-season finale. As the team faces Boston for the first time since Andino's big hit, it says its focus is on 2012.

A former 40-year veteran employee of the National Archives who admitted stealing historical treasures, including Herbert Morison's report of the 1937 Hindenburg crash and a Bob Hope performance, is to be sentenced today.

Orioles: Thoughts on the Peter Angelos-Davey Johnson relationship

Proposal to sell city-owned historic properties should prompt a renewed effort to inventory and protect Baltimore's heritage

Camden Yards, the stadium that changed baseball and Baltimore, turns 20 this year. The innovative ballpark changed the way stadiums were designed and played a key role in keeping the Orioles in Baltimore.

The new ABC reality TV series "Ball Boys" opens with the motto: "Every great moment in sports leaves something behind." This network series set in a Baltimore sports memorabilia shop tells the stories of what happens to some of the stuff left behind.

Orioles outfielder Scott Beerer hopes his winding road leads him to the major leagues. The one-time pitcher quit baseball for several years before linking up with Brady Anderson for a comeback attempt.

Ellicott City: March 2 marked what would have been Theodor Geisel's 108th birthday, but he is better known as Dr. Seuss. Events have been taking place around the country to honor this beloved writer. Here, in Ellicott City, two schools planned Dr. Seuss themed events.

New book continue's Hall of Famer's youth fiction series

St. Agnes Hospital officials said Monday they were negotiating with the Archdiocese of Baltimore to buy the historic Cardinal Gibbons High School.

Local newspapers in 1895, carried a baseball column every week in the spring editions" according to research by historian and Maryland State Sen. Joe Getty.

Right-hander Brad Bergesen¿s arbitration hearing was scheduled for this morning at 9:30. He was looking for $1.2 million, the Orioles countered with $800,000.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is preparing for the sale of St. Peter the Apostle to a nearby non-Catholic church. St. Peter's, now part of a three-parish consolidation known as Transfiguration Catholic Community, will be sold to Carter Memorial Church of God in Christ.

Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette says he's not done adding to the team's roster for 2012 and talks about pitching, international scouting and more.

'Unconfirmed' reports that Babe Ruth was married in Elkton are completely bogus, but the legend lives on because the Sultan of Swat himself seems to have been confused about where he got hitched

Last chapel in Elkton, once known for marriage business

Last chapel in Elkton, once known for marriage business

More details on Camden Yards improvements, statues

Marchetti, Donovan, Moore, Berry, Mackey, Parker and Ewbank to be enshrined at museum

News reports last week about the return of the Oriole bird to players' caps failed to mention that its creator was Sun cartoonist James Adams Hartzell, who first introduced the original bird in 1954.

The Orioles in 2012 will unveil statues of the six men who entered the Hall of Fame as Orioles. Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken Jr. will each be honored with his own monument at Camden Yards as part of the stadium's 20th-anniversary celebration.

James Hall Bready, the venerable Evening Sun editorial writer who originated "Books and Authors," a Sunday Sun column that was published in The Sunday Sun and The Baltimore Sun for decades, died Saturday of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 92.

Sports nicknames, a once grand convention of American sportswriting, have been downgraded to mere abbreviations or nonsensical appropriations. How long until China passes us up on this one, too?

Orioles.com text says team erected statue for Brooks Robinson that was paid for completely by outside investors

Just a handful of investigators focus on the recovery of cultural property in America. The organizations are underfunded, overworked and underappreciated, but run by passionate people who love the job and routinely fight to keep it.

Brooks Robinson, one of this town's all-time sports greats joined Babe Ruth and Johnny Unitas today as athletes immortalized with statues in Baltimore.

A National Archives and Records Administration employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling government property — including a recording of Babe Ruth's voice — and selling it on eBay, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced.