My point is that a lot of cities have a beltway so that's not a unique feature that identifies this pair. Calling it a "Beltway Series" is not very creative and doesn't tell you where it is. (I know the term "Beltway bandits" refers to the government contractors that have sprung up around D.C. to suckle from the gummint's tit, but Baltimore doesn't come to mind for having a beltway around it.)
So I looked at Google Maps to see which other baseball cities have beltways or loop roads and included some notable examples of beltways around other non-MLB cities to round it out. There are quite a few of them.
List of MLB cities with beltways/loops:
Baltimore
Washington, D.C.
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Saint Louis (looks like one anyway)
Houston (liked the first one so much they built a second one)
Minneapolis
Dallas and Fort Worth, one each
Honorable Mentions:
Denver (they're working on it, looks like)
Phoenix (keep going, you'll get there!)
Kansas City (squint your eyes, you'll see it)
Non-MLB exemplars of beltways:
Indy (MiLB town)
Columbus, O. (MiLB town)
San Antonio (MiLB town?)
So that's my report. Lots of beltways, but only one Baltimore-Washington Parkway. You *know* where it runs because it's in the name. So it's the B-W Parkway World Series, not the Beltway Series. Thank you.
Note: A portion of the B-W Parkway was given the name Gladys Noon Spellman Parkway to honor the Maryland congresswoman. The large wooden sign in the median strip welcoming drivers to Baltimore was frequently bedecked with an additional unofficial endorsement that read ",Hon" that lasted until maintenance workers could remove it. Read the history of this slice of cultural confrontation in a Baltimore Sun discussion.
