Baltimore Orioles (minor league)

Baltimore Orioles 1903–1953 (1903–1914, 1916–1953) Baltimore, Maryland
Cap insignia
Class-level
Previous	Triple-A (1946–1953) Double-A (1912–1945) Single-A (1903–1911)
Minor league affiliations
League	International League (1912–1914, 1916–1953) Eastern League (1903–1911)
Major league affiliations
Previous	Philadelphia Phillies (1951–1953) St. Louis Browns (1949–1950) Cleveland Indians (1942–1948) Philadelphia Phillies (1940)
Minor league titles
League titles	10 (1908, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1944, 1950)
Team data
Previous parks	Memorial Stadium (1944–1953) Oriole Park V (1916–1943) Oriole Park IV (1901–1914)

The city of Baltimore, Maryland has been home to two minor league baseball teams called the "Baltimore Orioles", besides the four major league baseball teams, (the American Association in 1882–1891, the National League in the 1890s and the so-called "up-start" American League charter franchise of two seasons 1901–1902, and the current American League's modern team of the Baltimore Orioles since April 1954).

"Orioles" is a traditional name for baseball clubs in Baltimore (after the state bird of Maryland, with the colors of black and orange/gold/yellow). It was used by major league teams representing the port city from 1882 through 1899 in the old American Association and the original National League two decades after its founding in 1876, and by a charter team franchise member of the new American League from 1901 through 1902. The American League franchise was later shifted against the city's will to New York City with former famous player and now owner/manager John McGraw in 1903 and renamed the New York Highlanders, which later became the modern New York Yankees, a decade later (in order to give the new A.L. "bragging rights" by also having a team in the "Big Apple" versus the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers). Their string of championships and hall-of-fame roster of players began in the "Roaring Twenties", some baseballers say with the trading of the now famous "Babe Ruth", the "Bambino", and "Sultan of Swat", George Herman Ruth of southwest Baltimore, (formerly briefly with the old, now minor league Orioles of the International League with owner/manager Jack Dunn (1878–1928) in 1914, then traded later in the season to the Boston Red Sox because of new Federal League competition from the neighboring Baltimore Terrapins) now from the also financially pressed Red Sox team in 1919 to the New York Yankees. Since 1923, the Yankees have compiled 27 World Series championships (with the St. Louis Cardinals being second, having won 11 between 1926 and 2011), and the 1980s are the only decade so far in which they have failed to win at least one title.