Qualla: Arthur W. Perdue Stadium https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/6/arthur-w-perdue-stadium-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Arthur W. Perdue Stadium https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium Arthur W. Perdue Stadium: Introduction https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium/ Photo credit Bwave at English Wikipedia 16:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC), Public domain. Arthur Perdue started a poultry farm with fifty chickens behind his Salisbury house in 1920. He never threw a major-league pitch, never hit a home run, never made the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame. But the stadium on the east side of his hometown carries his name, because his son Frank turned the family chicken business into a national brand and his grandson Jim Perdue funded the ballpark. The Eastern Shore is full of buildings named for people who paid for them. Perdue Stadium is one of the few named for someone whose career predated the building by seventy-six years.

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/6/arthur-w-perdue-stadium-wp/dqf6-arthur-w-perdue-stadium-the-eastern-shore-baseball-hall-of-fame.mp3 0:06 3 full Arthur W. Perdue Stadium: A Boxing Title in the Outfield https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium/ Photo credit Gregory Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0. On October 10, 2009, Salisbury's own Fernando Guerrero fought for a regional middleweight title at Perdue Stadium. Until 2016, the larger Wicomico Youth and Civic Center could not serve alcohol because of an old real covenant on the property - a quirk of property law that meant t...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/6/arthur-w-perdue-stadium-wp/dqf6-arthur-w-perdue-stadium-a-boxing-title-in-the-outfield.mp3 0:06 4 full Arthur W. Perdue Stadium: Borrowed by the Hawks https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium/ Photo credit Gregory Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks played their 2018 and 2019 baseball seasons at Perdue Stadium while their own field, Hawk Stadium in Princess Anne, was being renovated. The arrangement made sense - Princess Anne is fifteen miles south of Salisbury, and the Hawks' h...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/6/arthur-w-perdue-stadium-wp/dqf6-arthur-w-perdue-stadium-borrowed-by-the-hawks.mp3 0:06 5 full Arthur W. Perdue Stadium: The Family and the Field https://qualla.com/arthur-w-perdue-stadium/ Photo credit Gregory Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0. Arthur Perdue's poultry company is now one of the largest chicken producers in the United States, with about 22,000 employees and processing plants from Maryland to Indiana. The family still runs it - the third and fourth generations both currently involved in the business. The n...

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