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Baltimore Orioles

ED SMITH STADIUM
Capacity 7,500
Year Opened 1989; renovated in 2011
Dimensions 340L, 375LC, 400C, 375RC, 340R
Surface Grass
Tickets on Sale January 26, 9 a.m.
Ticket Lines 800/745-3000.
Ticket Web Site www.orioles.com.
Ticket Prices The Orioles run a two-tier system: regular games and prime games. Third-Base Lounge, $32/$30; Premium Infield Box, $30/$28; Infield Box, $26/$24; Lower Box, $24/$22; Reserved Grandstand, $20/$18; Left Field Pavilion, $18/$16; SRO, $10/$8.
Local Airport Sarasota.
Address 2700 12th Street (12th Street and Tuttle Avenue), Sarasota.
Directions Coming from the north on I-75, exit at University Parkway; go west on University to Tuttle; turn left and head south on Tuttle; stadium is located on the right at the intersection of 12th and Tuttle. There is adequate signage to the stadium.

Spring Training History

The Baltimore Orioles have trained at the following sites (including their years as the St. Louis Browns): St. Louis (1901); French Lick, Ind. (1902); Baton Rouge (1903); Corsicana, Texas (1904); Dallas (1905-1906); San Antonio (1907, 1919, 1937-1941); Shreveport (1908, 1918); Houston (1909-1910); Hot Springs, Ark. (1911); Montgomery, Ala. (1912); Waco (1913); St. Petersburg (1914); Houston (1915); Palestine, Texas (1916-1917); Taylor, Ala. (1920); Bogalusa, Ala. (1921); Mobile, Ala. (1922-1924); Tarpon Springs, Fla. (1925-1927); West Palm Beach (1928-1936); Deland, Fla. (1942); Cape Girardeau, Mo. (1943-1945); Anaheim (1946); Miami (1947); San Bernardino, Cal. (1948, 1953); Burbank, Cal. (1949-1952); Yuma, Az. (1954); Daytona Beach, Fla. (1955); Scottsdale (1956-1958); Miami (1959-1990); Sarasota (1989-1991); St. Petersburg (1992-1995); Fort Lauderdale (1996-2009); Sarasota (2010-present).

Ballpark History

Ed Smith Stadium opened in 1989 as the spring-training home of the Chicago White Sox. When the ChiSox moved spring operations to Arizona, the Reds moved to Ed Smith Stadium from Plant City in 1998. The Reds moved to Goodyear to share a ballpark with the Cleveland Indians beginning in 2010.

 

People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
—Rogers Hornsby