Possible Clues:

• *Camden Yards player
• Maryland's state bird
• *State bird of Maryland (In this answer, note letters 7-8, 10-11 and 13)
• Bird who may come home?
• Relative of a bobolink
• Songbird native to North America
• North American bird also called the fire-bird
• Ripken or his son
• Babe Ruth, in 1914