DC: Friday with the Shorebirds

The grandstand at Perdue Stadium
Originally uploaded by jmharper.

I drive up the Eastern Shore of Delaware/Maryland/Virginia about five times a year to see Mom and Dad. The largest city between Virginia Beach and Wilmington is Salisbury MD, considered the center of the DelMarVa peninsula. Chicken rules the roost here, and one passes numerous chicken farms on the drive up US-13. Hopefully the trip isn't spent behind a chicken truck on it's way to one of the processing plants. Tyson, Mountainnaire, and Perdue have plants in the area.

The Delmarva Shorebirds play at Perdue Stadium on the east side of Salisbury. It is a nice, little ballpark set among fields and forests. When driving up the shore in the summer, I try to make it a point to stop, at least for a while, if the 'Birds are in town.

The Shorebirds give you small-town baseball. There is a large percentage of kids and families in a Shorebirds crowd. They may come from Virginia, 40 miles to the south, or Delaware, 10 miles to the north, or the three counties that make up Maryland's eastern shore. Most of them sit in the metal bench seats that make up a majority of the stadium seating. A general admission ticket is all you need to get a good view of the game here!