May 22, 2002: Dulaney's 16-15 victory over Severna Park gives the Lions their third straight Class 4A-3A state boys lacrosse championship. Mike Obringer's fifth goal of the game, with 46 seconds left in the second overtime, wins it.

May 27, 1983: A 7-4 win over the Royals in Kansas City ends a seven-game losing streak for the Orioles. Eddie Murray hits his first home run in 35 days for Baltimore's eventual World Series champions.

May 26, 1960: Quarterback Johnny Unitas of the world champion Colts is named Sports Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Committee.

May 23, 1953: Taking the lead at the top of the stretch, Native Dancer wins the Preakness by a neck over Jamie K before an announced 30,756 at Pimlico Race Course. It's the 13th victory in 14 starts for “The Grey Ghost,” who'd lost the Kentucky Derby by a head. Bred at Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, Native Dancer goes on to win the Belmont Stakes and become one of the most popular thoroughbreds of all time.

May 24, 1948: Sparrows Point's lacrosse team defeats Catonsville, 8-2, at Homewood Field for the Baltimore County championship. Nick McNickolas scores four goals and Reds Noel gets the winner.

May 28, 1937: A turtle named Otorrhoea (meaning “a discharge from the ears”) wins the seventh annual Johns Hopkins Hospital Turtle Derby. His owner, Dr. Dudley Babb, wins $50 in nickels.

May 24, 1921: In a pregame ceremony, Baltimore Mayor William F. Broening raises the 1920 International League championship flag over Oriole Park. Broening then dons an Orioles cap, takes the mound and throws the game's first pitch, nearly hitting the leadoff batter for the Newark Bears. The Orioles win, 8-7.

May 22, 1908: Falling for the hidden-ball trick, the Orioles' John Kelly is picked off first base by the Montreal Royals. “When Kelly was reprimanded by [Jack] Dunn for carelessness, he punched his manager,” The Sun reported. “A lively bout ensued till the other players separated them.” Baltimore loses, 2-0.

Birthday

May 25, 1941:Fullback Tony Lorick, the Colts' second-round draft pick in 1964, who led the team in rushing in 1966 (524 yards) and gained 3,409 all-purpose yards in four years with Baltimore. Lorick died in 2013.

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