Attending a Orioles Game at Ed Smith Stadium

The 53-acre site houses the stadium and the surrounding spring-training complex with four-and-a-half practice fields and 35,000 square feet of clubhouses and office space. It maintains a national reputation as a premier baseball facility and continues to be the mecca of baseball activity in the this area.

A $31.2 million renovation of Ed Smith Stadium between the 2010 and 2011 Spring Training seasons offers fans a classic ballpark feel while paying homage to Sarasota’s architectural history. One of the defining features is an entrance way behind home plate allowing fans walking into the stadium to immediately get a glimpse of the whole field.

Ballpark walls were extended toward the street, giving the facility an indoor concourse and a second-floor facade features additional concessions and bathrooms. The new structure also has a roof extension and a wrap-around apron to address frequent complaints that the stadium doesn’t have enough shaded areas. Other changes include the installation of 7,100 seats recycled from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Sarasota has a long history of spring training baseball dating back to the 1920’s and Calvin Nathaniel Payne. John McGraw’s New York Giants held spring training at Payne Park from 1924 through 1927 at the persuasion of one of his good friends John Ringling. After the Giants left in 1927, the Boston Red Sox called Payne Park their spring training home from 1933 until 1958 and were followed by the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

Orioles Spring Training Ticket Prices & Information

2024 Baltimore Orioles Individual Game Tickets are on sale now.  Ticket prices range between $23-$43.

Visit www.mlb.com/orioles/tickets/spring-training for more information. Fans interested in receiving additional Spring Training ticket information, may call the Orioles Spring Training office in Sarasota at 941-893-6300. Fans interested in additional information on suite rentals or pre-game party facilities should call 941-893-6317.

Directions to Ed Smith Stadium

Find in Google Maps

South on I-75: Exit 213 (University Parkway West); Follow signs to Tuttle Avenue. Left on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Right onto 12th Street.
North on I-75: Exit 210 (Fruitville Road West); Fruitville Road to Tuttle Avenue. Right on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Left on 12th Street.
From Bradenton: 41 South to University Parkway. Left on University Parkway to Tuttle Avenue. Right on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Right on 12th Street.

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Baltimore Orioles Florida Spring Training History

(St. Louis Browns 1902-53)
1914: St. Petersburg (Coffee Pot Bayou Park)
1925-27: Tarpon Springs
1928-36: West Palm Beach
1942: Deland
1947: Miami
1955: Daytona Beach (City Island Ball Park)
1959-88: Miami (Bobby Maduro Stadium)
1989-90: Miami, Sarasota (Ed Smith Stadium)
1991: Sarasota (Ed Smith Stadium)
1992-95: St. Petersburg (Al Lang Field)
1996-2009: Fort Lauderdale (Fort Lauderdale Stadium)
2010-present: Sarasota (Ed Smith Stadium)

Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Attendance

(2010-20)

*The 2020 MLB Spring Training season was halted on March 12, 2020, as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic swept through the United States stopping all sporting events, at the time, and discontinued large gatherings of people.