Sun archive: Stadium Place playground

September 10, 2008

Fire destroys popular playground

Fire destroyed the sprawling playground that thousands of volunteers built three years ago at the site of the old Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street, a blaze that community leaders called "devastating" as they vowed to rebuild.

April 16, 2005

From The Baltimore Sun archive

All work makes for play

Not too long ago, this corner in the Waverly neighborhood was a parking lot for the old Memorial Stadium, once home of the Colts and the Orioles, but then home to nothing.

April 7, 2005

From The Baltimore Sun archive

Volunteers needed to build playground

When Debra Evans gazed at the grounds around Memorial Stadium in 1999, she didn't see a landscape hospitable to children - or anybody, really.

March 18, 2005

4,000 volunteers sought to construct playground

A Baltimore community group is seeking 4,000 volunteers to build a playground on a 1-acre parcel of the old Memorial Stadium site.