Rick Sutcliffe remembered he had food poisoning. The Baltimore Orioles’ first Opening Day starter at their new ballpark had gotten sick on a giant submarine sandwich at Washington’s RFK Stadium two days before Oriole Park at Camden Yards was to open.
On April 5, the night before the first opener 25 years ago, Robin Sutcliffe was driving to a pharmacy near the couple’s Crownsville, Md., home looking for medicine for her husband.
“I had it bad. I was throwing up. I had a fever,” Sutcliffe said at a media session following a luncheon to celebrate the 1992 team.
