Delmarva Shorebirds
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The Delmarva Shorebirds are a Class A minor league baseball team affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles. The Shorebirds play their home games at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, Maryland. The Shorebirds play in the South Atlantic League. The team mascot is Sherman the Shorebird. The team is currently owned by the Comcast cable network. The name "Shorebirds" refers to the marine waterfowl of the region. Delmarva is a name derived from the states that govern counties on the peninsula east of the Chesapeake Bay: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The Shorebirds have won two South Atlantic League championships, in 1997 and 2000. Also in 1997, the Shorebirds received Baseball America’s Bob Freitas Award for Class A baseball.
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