BALTIMORE (WJZ) – The Sports Legend Museum has closed, effective immediately

The Sports Legends Museum at Camden Station has closed effective immediately after the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation’s opted to not accept a lease counteroffer from the Maryland Stadium Authority.

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The museum featured exhibits of the Orioles, the Ravens and Baltimore icons such as Johnny Unitas.

“A very sad day, I think, for us”.

The museum has been located adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Gibbons said his organization has begun scouting new locations in the Baltimore area, but any relocation would not be immediate. The stadium authority wanted a higher rent and only a one year lease.

According to a news release from the Babe Ruth Museum, the foundation’s Board of Directors had proposed a new lease that would have had the stadium authority return the museum’s rent back to where it was in 2008 and would include a partial payment of back rent and a five-year lease agreement.

A few of the museum’s collection will be moved into the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum while the rest will be moved into storage. The foundation didn’t want to invest money in renovating the building if there was no guarantee the museum would remain there a year later.

Stay with ABC2 News as we continue to update this story. “Ultimately their proposal to us didn’t make sense to us to move forward”, Gibbons said.

It will be interesting to see what happens to the space at Camden Station as the museum was the largest tenant at the site.

It is another blow after a disappointing Baltimore Orioles season and the Baltimore Ravens frightful start. “We have been here for 10 years, also for Baltimore because I believe that this museum really accurately portrayed the incredible, wonderful sports heritage that we’ve got in the community”.