Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball club based in Baltimore that plays in Major League Baseball as a member of the American League East Division. The franchise began in 1901 as the Milwaukee Brewers, one of the American League's eight charter teams, moved to St. Louis in 1902 to become the Browns, and was bought by a syndicate of Baltimore business and civic interests in 1953 before relocating for the 1954 season. Its home ballpark is Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which opened in 1992 in downtown Baltimore. The club won the World Series in 1966, 1970 and 1983, a run of success that produced Hall of Fame figures such as Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken Jr. and manager Earl Weaver. The name recalls the oriole, the state bird of Maryland.