Emma Short’s favorite baseball player ever is Adam Jones, because he blows bubbles in the outfield and he’s an All-Star and a role model and, yeah, they shared a cool high-five two years ago. But her second-favorite baseball player ever, for now anyway, might be the one she saw Sunday instead of Jones. Because that Oriole, whoever he was, brought her unimaginably closer to her favorite Oriole.
Sunday was Youth Baseball Day at Camden Yards, and Emma, 6, headed down from Elkton with her parents to watch the Orioles play the Toronto Blue Jays.