 At that time, after two years of negotiations, local Baltimore businessmen led by attorney Clarence Miles with Baltimore City Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., made a deal with the American League team owners and had just purchased its St. Louis Browns franchise from controversial owner Bill Veeck in November 1953, and to move the team to Maryland becoming the renamed new Baltimore Orioles who played their first game in the city, in April 1954, coincidentally the following season after Baltimorean school sports star Kaline began play with the Tigers on Lake Michigan.Westport is served by Baltimore's north to south (Hunt Valley to BWI Airport and Glen Burnie) Light Rail system with the Westport Station.The Westport stop is just south of the Hamburg Street stop, which serves M&T Bank Stadium for the NFL professional football team of the Baltimore Ravens and adjacent Oriole Park at Camden Yards ballpark for the major league Baltimore Orioles baseball team in the Camden Yards sports complex, and is just further north of the Cherry Hill neighborhood stop further to the south off Cherry Hill Road and Waterview Avenue.