The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Orioles are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was established as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1901.

The Milwaukee Brewers (not to be confused with the current Milwaukee Brewers) moved to St. Louis in 1902 and became the St. Louis Browns.

After more than five decades in St. Louis, in 1954 the Browns moved to Baltimore and assumed the nickname Orioles, the traditional nickname of various Baltimore baseball clubs.

The modern Orioles franchise can trace its roots back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the minor Western League, beginning in 1894 when the league reorganized.

Two months later, the AL declared itself a competing major league.

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.

Going into the 2008 season, the Orioles have had ten consecutive sub--.500 seasons, due to the combination of lackluster play on the team's part and the ascent of the Yankees and Red Sox to the top of the game -- each rival having a clear advantage in financial flexibility due to their larger media market size.

Fortunately for the Orioles, Peter Angelos owns MASN, which hosts all of the Nationals television games, effectively combining two teams' television revenue to support the Orioles.

General manager Syd Thrift was fired and to replace him, the Baltimore Orioles hired Jim Beattie as the Executive Vice President and Mike Flanagan as the Vice President of Baseball Operations.

Orioles continue to scam fans on $1 ticket promotion