Celebrating Opening Day with the Orioles fans of Instagram

Apr 5, 2013

Celebrating Opening Day with the Orioles fans of Instagram

Steve Earley 0 Comment Instagrammer Feature, Maryland, Sports Baltimore, baseball, instagram, Instagrammer, Orioles

Notice a little more orange in your Instagram feed lately? If you were following these folks, it never would have stopped. From the playoff run last October, to the road opener on Tuesday, Orioles supporters from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, even from New England, have been sharing slices of their fandom, which, appropriately enough, often involves slices of Orioles-themed cake. In this special Instagrammer Feature, meet some of the Orioles fans of Instagram.

Photos curated in part via Olapic

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Feb 11, 2013

Opening Day parades, victory parties: How Baltimore celebrated its winning teams over the years

Paul McCardell 1 Comment Sports, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Colts, Maryland, Orioles, sports

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After winning Super Bowl XLVII, the Baltimore Ravens were welcomed back by one of the greatest victory parades in Baltimore history with over 200,000 fans in attendance on Feb. 5.

Look back at past celebrations and Opening Day sports parades. Perhaps, the biggest turnout was on April 15, 1954, when fans welcomed the Baltimore Orioles in their very first season on Opening Day against the White Sox. Over 350,000 fans were said to have shown up for the parade.

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Dec 28, 2012

2012: Baltimore Sun’s Year in Pictures

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, Preakness, The Baltimore Sun Arlington National Cemetery, Art Modell, Cal Ripken, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chincoteague, Clarence Mitchell lll, dolphins, elephants, ellicott city, Fort McHenry, Hurricane Sandy, lacrosse, Matt Wieters, Nick Markakis, Orioles, Pimlico, police, Preakness, Ravens, Ray Rice, Ringling Brothers, Sailabration, Same-sex marriage, sea trials, sunflower, Terrell Suggs, train wreck, USNA

75 photos

Wilson Hicks, former Executive Editor for Life Magazine, once wrote, “The most graphic reporting is eyewitness reporting. ‘I was there, I saw it happen, it was like this.’ In journalistic print, the firsthand account which comes closest to reproducing the actuality of an event is the picture…”

Baltimore Sun photographers were on hand to witness and photograph the highs and lows of 2012, from the resurgent Orioles making the playoffs for the first time in 15 years to the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.

The images in this gallery are a sampling of these pictures as selected by Sun Director of Photography Robert Hamilton. Some of these photographs are from significant events that shaped the lives of people; others are small moments of universal truths.

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Nov 30, 2012

Days Remembered: Iconic photography of The Baltimore Sun

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment From the Vault, Maryland, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland, Orioles, Ravens

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“Days Remembered,” a recently published picture book by The Baltimore Sun, provides a visual march through history. The images span over a century of photography, taken by The Baltimore Sun staff photographers, starting with the very first picture, published in 1901.

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Nov 2, 2012

Robert Kniesche: A life devoted to Baltimore and photography

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Crisfield, dairy farm, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eastern Avenue, ellicott city, Ft. Carroll, H. L. Mencken, Harry S Truman, Highlandtown, Jones Falls Expressway, Lenny Moore, O'Sullivan Building, Orioles, oyster boat, Park Avenue, Paul Richards, Robert F. Kniesche, Sparrows Point, York Road

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The Baltimore Sun newspaper has a rich history of photojournalism. Since publishing its first photograph on September 30, 1901 The Sun has employed a long line of award winning photographers. To pay tribute to these photographers, The Darkroom will periodically take a look back at the body of work by some of these photographers whose love of their craft helped document the lives of people from the backstreets of Baltimore to the four corners of the globe.

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Oct 12, 2012

Rough Cut: A raw edit of the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees in game five of the American League Division Series

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment Orioles, Sports, The Baltimore Sun Orioles, Yankees

85 photos

“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the Orioles MLB post season games. This week photojournalists Kenneth K. Lam and Lloyd Fox photographed the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees in game five of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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Oct 11, 2012

Rough Cut: A raw edit of the Baltimore Orioles loss to the New York Yankees in game three

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment Orioles, The Baltimore Sun baseball, Orioles, Yankees

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“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the Orioles MLB post season games. This week photojournalists Kenneth K. Lam and Lloyd Fox photographed the Baltimore Orioles extra innings loss to the New York Yankees in game three of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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Oct 9, 2012

Rough Cut: A raw edit of the Baltimore Orioles win over the New York Yankees in game two

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Orioles, Sports, The Baltimore Sun ALDS, Baltimore, Major League Baseball, New York, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Orioles, playoffs, Yankees

55 photos

“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the Orioles MLB post season games. This week photojournalists Karl Merton Ferron and Gene Sweeney Jr. photographed the Baltimore Orioles as they beat the New York Yankees in game two of the American League Division Series 3-2 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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Oct 8, 2012

Rough Cut: A raw edit of the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees game one playoffs

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Orioles, Sports, The Baltimore Sun ALDS, Jim Johnson, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Orioles, playoffs

57 photos

“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the Orioles post season game. This week photojournalists Karl Merton Ferron and Gene Sweeney Jr. photographed the Baltimore Orioles as they lost to the New York Yankees in game one of the American League Division Series 7-2.

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Orioles Legends Celebration Series at Camden Yards

Oct 4, 2012

Orioles Legends Celebration Series at Camden Yards

Pete Sweigard 0 Comment Sports, The Baltimore Sun baseball, Brooks Robinson, Cal Ripken Jr, Earl Weaver, Eddie Murray, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, MLB, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Orioles

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The recent unveiling of the Brooks Robinson sculpture at Camden Yards on Sept. 29 gave Orioles fans a rare treat. The six Hall of Famers immortalized in bronze as part of the Legends Celebration Series — Frank Robinson, Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken Jr. and Brooks, of course — were all present (in the flesh!) for the first time during the season-long celebration. Here’s a look back at The Sun’s coverage (in stories, photos and video) of this season’s statue dedications at Camden Yards.

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