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Harbor Park is a stadium, used primarily for baseball, on the Elizabeth River, in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Once rated the best minor league stadium by Baseball America, it is home to the Norfolk Tides Minor League Baseball team. The Tides are the Baltimore Orioles' Triple-A farm team and compete in the International League. Harbor Park ...
The Tides previously played at High Rock Park in 1961 and 1962, Frank D. Lawrence Stadium from 1961 to 1969, and at Met Park from its opening in 1970 until the end of the 1992 season. Originally known as the Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides, the team began play in 1961 as members of the Class A South Atlantic League.
In April 1993, the 12,067-seat Harbor Park baseball stadium opened, hosting the Norfolk Tides Triple-A minor league baseball team. It received the honor of best minor league park in 1995 by Baseball America .
After the Norfolk Tides fell 5-2 at Durham on Sunday, an annual minor league ritual commenced. Norfolk’s players, coaches and staffers scattered, happily, for a brief midseason sabbatical. The ...
The 2.2-mile light rail extension would tie in with the redevelopment of Military Circle mall, which Norfolk wants to turn into a mixed-use community. That redevelopment could include hotels ...
Metropolitan Memorial Park aka Met Park was a baseball stadium in Norfolk, Virginia.Built in 1969, it was the home to the Norfolk Tides (known at that time as the Tidewater Tides) until the construction of Harbor Park was completed for the Tides to play the 1993 season there.
Portsmouth hosted the Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides from 1961 to 1968, with the franchise evolving into the Tidewater Tides and eventually today's Class AAA level Norfolk Tides. [ 1 ] Baseball Hall of Fame members Pie Traynor (1920), Hack Wilson (1923) and Buck Leonard (1953) played for Portsmouth, while Jimmie Foxx (1944) and Tony Lazzeri (1942 ...
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