When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

In 1985, the museum was designated by Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer as the official archives of the Baltimore Colts, which had moved the previous year to Indianapolis.

Marchibroda was already well known because of his work as head coach of the Baltimore Colts during the 1970s and the Indianapolis Colts during the early 1990s.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

Tittle to the Baltimore Colts in 1948.

The Giants went on to play the Baltimore Colts in the championship, a game often cited as the seed of professional football's popularity surge in the U. S.

The largest defeat in club history was a 52 – 0 loss against the Baltimore Colts in 1964.

# Linebacker Chuck Howley – Super Bowl V – Howley was named the MVP for Super Bowl V despite the Cowboys ' loss to the Baltimore Colts.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

The team was officially founded as the Baltimore Colts in 1953 and were based in Baltimore, Maryland until the team relocated to Indianapolis in 1984.

The Colts had two Super Bowl appearances while in Baltimore, losing to the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, while defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V.

Memorial Stadium ( Baltimore ) | Memorial Stadium, home to the Baltimore Colts until 1983.

The Colts played their first season in Baltimore in 1953, where the team complied a 3 – 9 record under first year head coach Keith Molesworth.

Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Johnny Unitas was the Baltimore Colts ' starting quarterback from 1956 to 1972.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

By early 1984, after the Colts ' lease on the dilapidated 64, 124 seat Memorial Stadium had expired, Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to upgrade the stadium or build a new one.

After agreeing to the deal, Mayflower Transit trucks were dispatched to the team's Maryland training complex on March 29, 1984 in the early morning, where workers loaded all of the team's belongings and the trucks left for Indianapolis with the Colts completely gone from Baltimore by midday.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

" could be heard on the television broadcast of Barack Obama's pre-inaugural visit to Baltimore as the National Anthem played before his entrance.

In 2012, of the teams they were unbeaten or winless against, the Texans have already played against and beaten Miami ( now 7-0 ), and still have games scheduled to be played against Baltimore, Chicago, Minnesota, and the New York Jets.

In 1958 Baltimore played its first NFL Championship Game against the 10 – 3 New York Giants.

The region had not possessed a professional football team since the days of the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference in 1946 before becoming the first incarnation of the Baltimore Colts.

Morrall had previously played for Dolphins head coach Don Shula when they were both with the Baltimore Colts, where Morrall backed up quarterback Johnny Unitas and started in Super Bowl III.

Kuechenberg entered the game with a broken arm which was injured in a game played against the Baltimore Colts and wore a cast on that arm throughout the game.

In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city / ten-show sold out US tour titled " A Parting Glass with The Pogues " visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Boston, and New York ( in that order ), with only the last three cities getting more than one show.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

He played from 1956 to 1976, most notably for the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles.

* Rex Kern, Football quarterback, Ohio State Buckeyes football 1968 National Championship team, All-American, College Football Hall of Fame ( 2007 ); played professionally as a defensive back for the NFL's Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts

Jackson played for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics ( 1967 – 1975, 1987 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1976 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 – 1981 ), and California Angels ( 1982 – 1986 ).

In 1976, while playing in Baltimore, Jackson had said, " If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

* Baltimore had an NFL team ( the Colts ) at the time of the WFL, but after their departure the Stars of the USFL and the Stallions of the CFL played in the city.

Prior to 1985, almost all finals were played in the 2-2-1-1-1 format ( although the 1971 finals between Milwaukee and Baltimore were on an alternate-home basis, some 1950s finals used the 2-3-2 format, and the 1975 Golden State-Washington and 1978 and 1979 Seattle-Washington finals were on a 1-2-2-1-1 basis ).

It was at a show in Baltimore on Lauper's 2006 tour that she finally played it in full again.

At age fifteen, without knowledge of his parents, he played piano at Aggie Shelton ’ s Baltimore bordello.

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

Previously, Ryan played for the Cincinnati Reds () and Baltimore Orioles ( 1999 –).

The Orioles are also well known for their successful stadium, the trend-setting Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which opened in 1992 in downtown Baltimore.

As mentioned above, the Miles-Hofberger group renamed their new team the Baltimore Orioles soon after taking control of the franchise.

The huge post-season crowds at their temporary home, Municipal Stadium, caught the attention of the big league brass and helped open the door to the return of major league baseball to Baltimore.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

Baltimore clippers were topsail schooners developed in Chesapeake Bay before the American Revolution, and which reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815.

The Cowboys lost their final game at Texas Stadium to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 24, on December 20, 2008.

Skinner, Key, and Beanes were not allowed to return to their own sloop because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore.

In Baltimore, Cabell was stuck behind third baseman Brooks Robinson, but he took advantage of his opportunity in Houston and became their everyday third baseman.

The franchise struggled during the first few years in Baltimore, with the team not achieving their first winning record until the 1957 season.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

In 1975 Baltimore and Miami tied with 10 – 4 records, yet the Colts advanced to the playoffs based on a head-to-head sweep of their series.

* 1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.

Thoroughbred owners began sending their successful Derby horses to compete a few weeks later in the Preakness Stakes at the Pimlico Race Course, in Baltimore, Maryland, followed by the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York.

Preachers from the Baltimore Conference were required, under threat of suspension, to free their slaves.

Harry Dalton was hired as the club's General Manager and he, in turn, hired Baltimore Orioles pitching coach George Bamberger as the Brewers ' third manager in their brief history.

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

The ICTV classifies RNA viruses as those that belong to Group III, Group IV or Group V of the Baltimore classification system of classifying viruses, and does not consider viruses with DNA intermediates in their life cycle as RNA viruses.

Viruses with RNA as their genetic material but which include DNA intermediates in their replication cycle are called retroviruses, and comprise Group VI of the Baltimore classification.