Norfolk Tides Tickets

 
 
Norfolk Tides are a baseball team of a minor league that plays in the International League, in the Triple-A class level. The team plays its home games at the Harbor Park located in downtown Norfolk, along Elizabeth River. The team has won five league titles, seven division titles and a class title. It is currently owned by Maryland Baseball Holding, and is managed by Ron Johnson, with general manager Dave Rosenfield.  As of 2007, they have become a Baltimore Orioles farm team, before which they had been affiliates of the New York Mets for thirty-eight years. The team has taken home several honors including five International League championships and a Governor’s Cup, while it has entered the championship series nine times. Norfolk Tides tickets provide a promising game to the Tides fans, with their unstoppable players running back-to-back homeruns.
 
The history of Norfolk Tides goes back to 1961 when it was called Tidewater Tides and played for South Atlantic League, with Portsmouth’s Lawrence Stadium as its home ground.  The team played independently in its first year without any direct affiliation with a major league, till it was offered affiliation with St. Louis Cardinals the next season. In 1963, however, the SAL pulled out of Virginia thus making minor league baseball insecure for the future, in the Hampton Roads region. A local group came forward and suggested an expansion plan to Carolina League, which when undertaken took in two teams, once of which were the Tides. By 1969, New York Mets decided to move their affiliate from the Triple-A International League then called the Jacksonville Sons, to Portsmouth from Florida. The team then took on the title of the Tides, after which it was taken up by the team’s previous owners who continued with the team under the ownership of the Mets. Their first year with Triple-A came to a close with a pennant, when all at the same time, the city of Norfolk and the Mets team came together to have the team’s new home ground built.
 
Harbor Park, where Norfolk Tides play their home games, is considered to be the best of all minor league stadiums according to Baseball America. The Park was opened in 1993 and has a seating capacity of over twelve thousand, according to the distribution of which, it has nine thousand seat in the lower deck, twenty eight hundred seats in the upper deck and a picnic area that can hold three hundred people. The arena also has twenty-four luxury boxes that can hold four hundred people and a full-serving restaurant that can entertain over two hundred people. The ground for the park was broken in 1992, and the team moved into the new stadium the very next year. During this period, many changes were brought about in various ways; in 1992, the franchise was sold by the Mets to a group headed by Ken Young, a Tampa businessman. By the time the team shifted to Harbor Park, it replaced its then current name of Tidewater to that of Norfolk, owing to marketing strategies and political reasons, since Norfolk city had run arranged for the construction of the park with reference to financing and building.  
 
Norfolk Tides won the Governors’ Cup which is the International League championship in 1985, 1983, 1982, 1975 and 1972. The team has also played the best regular season of its league in 1987, even though it lot in the finals. Norfolk Tides and the Mets brought their affiliation to a close following the 2006 season, just when their association of thirty-eight years proved to be the second longest of a Triple-A class level.  Their affiliation with Baltimore Orioles was announced with the team in a press conference of 2006. Shane Halter, Matt Wieters, Edgardo Alfonzo, Mike Cervenak and Ron Darling are some of the Tides alumni. Get in line for those Norfolk Tides tickets and be there to cheer for the team.