109-year-old Veteran Kicks Off Orioles' Season With Opening Day Pitch

A 109-year-old superfan of nan Baltimore Orioles threw retired nan team's first transportation for Opening Day connected Thursday.

Arthur Green, a seasoned who served successful 2 wars, has been a witnesser to nan entirety of nan O's modern history — since nan squad was relocated from St. Louis to Baltimore successful 1954, according to MLB.com. Green was successful his precocious 30s astatine nan time, and had already served clip successful some wars.

This wasn't Green's first clip connected nan mound. He threw a transportation successful August 2023, erstwhile he was 106. At nan time, Green's daughter, Myra, told WMAR 2 News Baltimore that was nan "happiest time of his life."

In December, Green was named nan Orioles' 2026 Mo Gaba Fan of nan Year — a instrumentality who gets to service arsenic nan team's unofficial "10th man" astatine each season's location opener, MLB.com reported.

The Orioles went connected to triumph nan season-opening crippled — possibly acknowledgment to Green's transportation — 2-1 complete nan Minnesota Twins.