On the street side of the towering iron fence, maybe a hundred yards from the Orioles’ bullpen inside the gates, stood Orioles fan Les Bowman with his younger brother.
It was about two hours before the start of the game and Bowman had no chance of getting inside Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday afternoon. That was no problem for Bowman, who drove nearly three hours from the coast of Virginia that morning to help with the clean-up effort in parts of Baltimore that sorely needed it.
This was a different sort of gameday, unprecedented in American professional sports history, and Bowman just wanted to witness as much of it as possible. And from this spot outside of the stadium, Bowman and others had as unobstructed a view into the stadium as possible from the surrounding streets.
“The way I see it,” Bowman said, “I have the best seat in the house.”
