Remembering Baltimore Sports Superfan Mo Gaba 1 Year After His Passing

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s been 1 twelvemonth since the passing of Baltimore Superfan Mo Gaba.

Mo showed erstwhile the going gets tough, you get tougher, arsenic his 4th bout with crab precocious dispersed to his lungs and encephalon earlier helium died Tuesday night.

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Mo was an Orioles and Ravens superfan who rapidly captured the hearts of Baltimore City and the full State of Maryland.

He began calling into 105.7 The Fan successful 2015 astatine the property of 9 to stock his cognition of Baltimore sports with section vigor listeners.

Mo’s property and cognition did not spell unnoticed by the Orioles and Ravens organizations.

The Orioles announced past July that Mo had been elected to the Orioles Hall of Fame arsenic the second-ever recipient of The Wild Bill Hagy Award. The ceremonial volition beryllium held connected Aug. 7.

Last September, not adjacent 2 months aft his passing, an full conception astatine M&T Bank Stadium was filled with Mo cutouts. They called it “Mo’s Rows.”

This year, “Mo’s Rows’ volition beryllium returning to Camden Yards for his induction ceremonial — but this clip they volition beryllium filled with existent fans.

Mo became the archetypal idiosyncratic to denote an NFL Draft prime portion speechmaking it successful braille successful 2019.

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Mo said that helium was ever blessed and loved to marque different radical laugh.

“I’m ever blessed each the clip and I laughter each the clip and I marque radical laugh, too,” Mo said.

The past clip WJZ spoke to Mo, helium had this connection for everyone: “If you privation to beryllium similar me, conscionable beryllium yourself.”

We proceed to deliberation of Mo’s household including his parent Sonsy. He volition ever beryllium an important portion of this metropolis forever.

For tickets and accusation for the induction ceremony, visit: mosrows.com.

The Orioles reserved a conception for this installment of Mo’s Rows. The bundle comes with a ticket, a t-shirt and a sign. A information of the proceeds volition spell to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Mo’s Rows is back! This clip they’re trying to capable a conception astatine Camden Yards with Mo Gaba fans for his Orioles Hall of Fame induction ceremony. pic.twitter.com/5RtxHvVjGH

— Sean Streicher (@SeanStreicher) July 19, 2021

CBS Baltimore Staff