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Article: Palmeiro, Orioles Are Already Drawing a Crowd
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- The Washington Post
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- February 8, 2004
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-- For a few moments Saturday, anyone entering the Baltimore
Convention Center for Orioles FanFest 2004 had to blink their eyes to
convince themselves it wasn't really 1997. Over here was Rafael
Palmeiro, signing autographs at a table. Over there were fans lined
up around the block at the ticket booths where individual game
tickets went on sale at 10 a.m.
Judging from the turnout, the ticket numbers and the buzz around
the convention hall, it appears the Orioles matter again in Baltimore
-- the way they haven't since that 1997 season when Palmeiro & Co.
took the team to their last playoff appearance.
"I know how good it can be around here," said Palmeiro, who
returned to the Orioles this ...