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Here are #WNSTSweet16 people who had a dream in Baltimore

Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com

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8. Jerold Hoffberger

A lover of sport and horse racing and a brewer of an iconic local beer, Jerry Hoffberger blazed a trail in the 1950s when he essentially bought the Baltimore Major League Baseball territory from Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith with the stroke of a pen and a National Bohemian sponsorship in the nation’s capital. Along with an attorney Clarence Miles, he put together a syndicate that bought the St. Louis Browns for $2.5 million and moved them to Baltimore as the Orioles in 1954.

In 1965, he bought the controlling interest in the team and brought in Frank Cashen, formerly his advertising director in the beer world, as executive vice president. The Orioles went on to win four AL pennants and two World Series from 1966-71. He sold the team to Edward Bennett Williams in 1979 for $9 million.
He saw the Baltimore Orioles before anyone in the world envisioned them. And it’s still hard to pass a bar in East Baltimore that doesn’t have one of his beer lights. He IS the “Boh Man.”