Here are a couple links on the history of the Sun. Pretty impressive stuff.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/about/bal-about-sun-sunhistory-htmlstory.html
https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2019/03/08/when-baltimore-sun-was-washingtons-most-visible-newspaper
Couple of tidbits
The only war correspondent in attendance when the Germans surrendered in Reims, France was a reporter for the Sun. Similarly, when the Japanese surrendered on the USS Missouri, three reporters for the Sun were there.
For awhile one of the tallest privately owned buildings in Washington DC was the Baltimore Sun building, which was built for the newspaper in the 1880s. The paper did not stay there long, however, because the Sun's owner's death forced his heirs to sell the building. The building is still there -- though by modern standards it's not even really considered tall.
The paper designed a communications network of telegraph, steamboat, railroad and pony express to New Orleans in the 1850s just to report on the Mexican War. This put the paper on the national stage.
The paper once had news bureaus in 7 international capitals, including Moscow and Tokyo.
David Simon, Louis Rukeyser, HL Mencken, Gwen Ifill and Jim McKay all once worked for the Sun.
I mostly read the Washington Post as a kid and teen, but if I could you could be damn sure that I would read the Orioles' box score for yesterday's game in the Sun! I live on the west coast now but don't even read the LA Times much anymore.
Now most of the great old newspapers are a mere shadow of what they used to be. The fifth season of The Wire did a great job showing the Sun struggling with the modern era.