FILE - Jon Miller talks to the crowd during opening day at Oracle Park on April 5, 2024 in San Francisco.

Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Jon Miller was officially welcomed back by his former team for a ceremony on Saturday night, seemingly ending a rift with the Orioles that lasted for nearly three decades.

Miller went to the Charm City to be a part of the 30th anniversary celebration of Cal Ripken Jr.’s record-breaking “Iron Man” streak, as Ripken passed Lou Gehrig with his 2,131st consecutive game on Sept. 6, 1995. Miller was the Orioles' primary radio broadcaster from 1983 to 1996, which covered the vast majority of Ripken’s streak, and was on the radio call for the record-breaking night.

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But in the 1990s, wealthy Maryland lawyer Peter Angelos bought the Orioles and decided to make a controversial change at the microphone, ousting Miller because he was apparently too honest with the audience when the team wasn’t playing well. As the Baltimore Sun wrote in 1996, “Mr. Angelos believed that Mr. Miller’s play-by-play was too critical. But the broadcaster was never excessive or harsh.”

Miller then went back to the Bay Area, where he was born (Novato) and raised (Hayward) attending Giants games at........

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