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BiographyFormed in 1996. | "The Delmarva Shorebirds is a Minor League Baseball team based in Salisbury, Maryland. It is a member of the Single-A South Atlantic League (SAL) and an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. Its home games are played at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium...By Autumn 1995 Maryland Baseball purchased the Albany Polecats from Richard M. Holtzman, relocated the franchise to Salisbury and renamed it the Delmarva Shorebirds.[1] The name "Shorebirds" refers to the marine waterfowl of the Delmarva Peninsula. The team name was chosen by 7-year-old Katie Duffy of Newark, Delaware.[3] The team's geographic appellation is a portmanteau of the states that govern counties on the peninsula: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (abbreviated VA)." -- Wikipedia.
