Getting ready for the Ravens
August 4, 2008
This year’s Ravens gear officially became available online this month, but if you’re planning on going to the team’s training camp in Westminster, you won’t have to wait for your gear to arrive in the mail — a good variety of clothing and gadgets is on sale at the team store just outside the fan viewing stands.
Saleswoman Gloria Makoy says Ray Lewis gear is and has always been the first to sell out in her five years of working at the camp. Other popular items are white hats, shirts and footballs (better for getting autographed) and 8 x 10 player photos.
Makoy also said she often sees dads buying souvenirs like bottles for the baby back home or earrings for the wife who couldn’t make it.
Makoy, a Pittsburgh native, said Ravens training camp is more accessible than others she’s seen.
“At Steelers training camp, you couldn’t even get close to the players,” she said. “Here, if you want an autograph you can definitely get it.”
(The camp’s Ravens store also sells Sharpies.)
Many of the other vendors at Ravenstown, an area at training camp with games and tents offering product promotions for kids and other visitors, said they recognize families who come back every year.
“It so cute, I begin to recognize the kids and parents and I watch them grow up,” Makoy said.
Does anybody here make training camp a family tradition?
LIZ FARMER, Business Writer
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