BALTIMORE — Delaware North would not say how much business its foodservice concessions at Camden Yards have lost since civil unrest disrupted traffic at the Baltimore stadium, but a website indicates the lost sales topped $95,000 on Wednesday alone.
That was the day the Orioles played the White Sox, but without allowing fans into the downtown stadium, an epicenter of violence during the weekend. A baseball website called TheFieldsofDreams.com says a typical midweek game against a team like the White Sox would have likely drawn a crowd of 15,000 to see the O’s. Typically a family attending the game buys two beers, four sodas and four hotdogs, for an average food expenditure of $25.50.
If 3,750 families had attended the game, as would be normal, the sales would have amounted to $95,625, according to the site’s figures.
In addition to banning an audience at Wednesday’s game, Major League Baseball cancelled two games and rescheduled three others to be held in Miami.
A sportswriter from Philadelphia has established a fund to compensate Camden Yards workers who lost hours because of the racial strife that erupted this weekend over the death of a young man while in police custody.