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Peter Angelos

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Peter Angelos (born July 4, 1929) is a trial lawyer and the current owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a baseball team in the American League East Division. He led a group of investors that purchased the team in 1993 for $173 million.

He opposed the relocation of the Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos) to Washington D.C. due to concerns about a reduced share of fan revenue affecting the ability of the Orioles to compete with the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Major League Baseball compensated Angelos by establishing a minimum sales price floor for the Orioles.

Angelos is widely despised by many fans of the once-proud Orioles franchise, whose fans anxiously await his sale of the team to an owner who cares about producing a winning baseball team rather than simply using the franchise for personal profit. Others note that under his tenture the Orioles visited the postseason in 1997 and 1997 for the first time since 1983, spending more on free agents that prior ownership.

He is a graduate of Eastern College and the University of Baltimore Law School.

Angelos unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Baltimore in 1964 but lost with less than 10% of the vote. He recently has become involved in politics again, publicly supporting Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich and criticizing 2006 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martin J. O'Malley.

  • Molly Rath, The Last Tycoon: Love Him or Hate Him, Peter Angelos Holds the Key to Downtown's Future, Baltimore City Paper, August 16, 2000 [1]
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