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Memorial Stadium was a sports venue located in Baltimore, Maryland. Construction started in 1949, on the sight of the former Baltimore (Municipal) Stadium, and was eventually completed during the 1954 Major League Baseball season. There were two incarnations of Memorial Stadium. The first one, built in 1949/50, consisted of only a lower seating bowl. Instead of the Memorial Wall facing 33rd Street, it still had the remnants of the old administration building from Baltimore's Municipal Stadium—a fabulous looking classical structure complete with sixteen full length columns. The second incarnation, the one that most Baltimoreans remember and are familiar with, was a two deck structure (they just built an upper seating bowl on top of the 1949 structure) that was completed throughout the 1953/54 football and baseball seasons. Although it experienced many cosmetic renovations over the course of its life, this second incarnation went virtually unchanged until the stadium was (sadly) demolished over a long and drawn out preservation battle during the 2001/02 legal year. Astoundingly, little to no trace at all of its existence remains—all that is left are the memories and photographs that we hold so dear. "TIME WILL NOT DIM THE GLORY OF THEIR DEEDS"
I grew up watching and playing sports. I love that sports can bring together people who otherwise would never be together. It is a communal experience, it is an experience that is passed from parent to child. Sports are our modern mythology.
The Earl S. Richardson Library is the main academic information resource center on the Morgan State University campus.
Morgan State University is a public research university and historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Morgan is Maryland's designated public urban university and the largest HBCU in Maryland. In 1890 the university, formerly known as the "Centenary Biblical Institute", changed its name to Morgan College to honor Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees who had donated land to the college. It became a university in 1975. MSU is a member of Thurgood Marshall College Fund.Although a public institution, MSU is not a part of the University System of Maryland; the school opted out and possesses its own governing Board of Regents. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 45 fields, master's degrees in 35 fields, doctoral degrees in 15 fields, and online programs in 9 fields through its twelve colleges, schools, and institutes.HistoryMorgan State University was founded in 1872 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, a Methodist Episcopal seminary, to train young men in the ministry. At the time of his death, Thomas Kelso, cofounder and president of the board of directors, endowed the Male Free School and Colored Institute through a legacy of his estate. It later broadened its mission to educate both men and women as teachers. The school was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees, who donated land to the college. In 1895, the institution awarded its first baccalaureate degree to George F. McMechen, after whom the building of the school of business and management is named today. George F. McMechen later obtained a law degree from Yale University and later became one of Morgan's main financial supporters.