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Annotations / Notes: Bready surveys the Baltimore experience with organized baseball in the nineteenth century, from the 1850s when the Baltimore Excelsiors played at the Madison Avenue Grounds near Druid Hill Park. He chronicles the odyssey of Baltimore's early National League club, first the Lord Baltimores and then the Baltimore Orioles, until the infamous year 1902, when Manager John McGraw jumped to New York in the National League, taking his players with him-not to mention Baltimore's hope for a major league team, not fulfilled until the 1950s.

Annotations / Notes: History of the Baltimore Orioles.

Annotations / Notes: During World War II, as a result of the growth of the domestic immigration of industrial workers, two planned communities were developed in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The first of these was Baltimore County's Middle River, a community for whites, a project of the Martin aircraft plant. The second was Cherry Hill, a south Baltimore, black community. They were both garden suburbs focused on a central commercial center.

Annotations / Notes: In 1852, forty-one African American delegates formed the first Colored Convention in Baltimore. Given the increasing restrictions on the mobility and employment opportunities available to free blacks since the early 19^th century, the convention addressed the possibility of emigration to Liberia. For many black Marylanders, emigration appeared to be the only real political choice left to free blacks in the 1850s. Discussion of colonization before 1852 had been mostly a white concern, although there had been several black colonization societies as well. In the end, however, few Maryland blacks embraced colonization.