Arthur W. Perdue Stadium

Arthur W. Perdue Stadium
Interior of Arthur W. Perdue Stadium
Location 6400 Hobbs Road
Salisbury, MD 21804
Coordinates 38°22′11″N 75°31′46″W / 38.36972°N 75.52944°W / 38.36972; -75.52944Coordinates: 38°22′11″N 75°31′46″W / 38.36972°N 75.52944°W / 38.36972; -75.52944
Owner Wicomico County
Operator 7th Inning Stretch LP
Capacity 5,200
Field size Left Field: 309 feet
Center Field: 402 feet
Right Field: 309 feet
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground August 18, 1994[1]
Opened April 17, 1996
Construction cost $11.5 million
($17.9 million in 2017 dollars[2] )
Architect The Design Exchange
Project manager National Sports Services
Structural engineer Davis, Bowen & Friedel, Inc.[3]
General contractor W. B. Venables & Sons, Inc.
Tenants
Delmarva Shorebirds (SAL) (1996–present)

Arthur W. Perdue Stadium is a baseball stadium in Salisbury, Maryland. It is the home of the Baltimore Orioles Class A affiliate Delmarva Shorebirds. Named for the founder of Perdue Farms, Arthur Perdue, it features the Maryland Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame. The stadium seats 5,200 fans and opened in 1996.

As the second-largest seating venue in Salisbury, it also occasionally is used for concerts or other events. Until 2016, the larger Wicomico Youth and Civic Center had a real covenant against serving alcohol.[4] As such, the stadium was chosen as the venue for Fernando Guerrero's middleweight title-winning boxing match in October 2009.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) played their 2018 season at Perdue Stadium while Hawk Stadium in Princess Anne was renovated. Perdue Stadium hosted the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament from 2015 to 2017.[5]

In 1998, the stadium hosted the Delmarva Rockfish, a team in the single-season Maryland Fall Baseball league.[6][7]

The entrance to Perdue Stadium

References

  1. ↑ "Groundbreaking For Eastern Shore Minor League Park". The Washington Post. August 19, 1994. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Arthur W. Perdue Stadium Salisbury, Maryland". Davis, Bowen & Friedel, Inc. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Holland, Liz (June 21, 2016). "Civic center gets long-awaited liquor license". The Daily Times. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Shore to play 2018 baseball season at Perdue Stadium". Maryland Eastern Shore Athletics. University of Maryland Eastern Shore. February 22, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Scherr, Rich (15 July 1998). "BASEBALL IN AUTUMN MIGHT RISE OR FALL". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  7. ↑ Northam, Mitchell. "20 Years: The Delmarva Shorebirds". DelmarvaNOW.com. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
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