Before stepping through the turnstiles of Oriole Park or M&T Bank Stadium, take a walk through more than 100 yearsof Maryland sports history at the Sports Legends Museum.

“The reason we wanted to create [Sports Legends] was out of necessity,” Executive Director Mike Gibbons said. “We had a burgeoning collection. We went from 100 Babe Ruth artifacts to over 10,000 that represented Maryland.”