Break-in taps out Baltimore brewery

The burglars tried to pry the metal grate off of a window at the Waverly Brewing Company before smashing the glass in a sliding door to gain entry, and when they couldn’t find any cash, Co-Owner Melissa Yukna says they stole other items of value.

“It’s the first thing I saw,” said Yukna, “I mean it brought me to tears. I looked and I said, ‘The Orioles pictures are gone,’ and you know, it hurt.”

A framed collection of autographed baseball cards of players from the 1983 championship team, Ripken and company, which had been a gift to the business owners when they opened up here a decade ago.

“The baseball cards were more of a sentimental thing to the brewery,” said Assistant Brewer Jamison Gilmore, “We’re all big Orioles fans and we take a lot of pride in being from Baltimore and the Orioles in general and to really take that was just the biggest gut punch to the whole thing.”…

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