Orioles Owner PETER ANGELOS's recent business plans,
which include the construction of a "massive" Grand Hyatt on
a "prime" city-owned lot across from Camden Yards, are "only
the latest in a series of transactions turning Angelos into
a one-man conglomerate, a kind of George Steinbrenner or Ted
Turner of Baltimore," according to David Harrison of the
BALTIMORE BUSINESS JOURNAL. With the deal, in addition to
owning the Orioles, Angelos would control "a growing stable
of commercial real estate, a huge shipyard, and now the
hotel." Baltimore-based First Mariner Bank President Edwin
Hale Sr.: "He wants to be the big guy in town, which is
probably motivating a lot of this. He probably deserves to
be." The BUSINESS JOURNAL's Harrison notes "even his
critics admit that he doesn't do it all for ego-
gratification. ... And his defenders say that Angelos is
motivated purely by his Baltimore, blue collar roots."
Angelos, asked if he would compare himself to Turner and
Steinbrenner: "I don't want to become a personality. ...I'm
just another guy doing a few things that anyone else would
do if they had the opportunity" (BUSINESS JOURNAL, 6/9).