(Jeff Morgan)
BALTIMORE — A new waterfront park along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in Baltimore’s Westport neighborhood will feature statues honoring the Baltimore Black Sox, the Negro League baseball team that called the area home for more than a decade.
The park is part of a larger redevelopment effort in a neighborhood that has long sat as an empty field. Brad Rogers, executive director of the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, described the scope of the project.
“With 11 miles of parks and trails and community development projects wrapping all the way around 11 miles of shoreline, and it’s going to be one of the crown jewels of the Baltimore park system,” Rogers said.
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