Delta Dental Stadium

• Name: Delta Dental Stadium
• GPS-able Address: 1 Line Dr., Manchester, NH 03101
• Ballpark Owner: City of Manchester
• Architects: HNTB
• Groundbreaking: 5/7/2004
• Minor League Baseball Teams: New Hampshire Fisher Cats (AA) 2005-present
• Class/League History: AA/Eastern League 2022-present; AA/Double-A Northeast 2021; AA/Eastern League 2005-2020
• First Professional Baseball Game: 4/7/2005; stadium debut of Class AA Fisher Cats
• Others Playing or Operating Here: None
• Previous Ballpark Names: Northeast Delta Dental Stadium 2012-2020; Merchantsauto.com Stadium 2006-2011; Fisher Cats Ballpark 2005
• LF: 326 CF: 400 RF: 306
• Seats: 6,500
• Stated Capacity: 6,500
• House Baseball/Softball Record Attendance (as currently configured): 8,903, 5/26/2009

Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester, NH, is the home of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the Toronto Blue Jays' Double-A Eastern League farm team. The brick beauty is the only ballpark to host the Eastern League All-Star Game three times in 10 years - 2008, 2011, and 2017.

The franchise moved from New Haven, CT, ahead of the 2004 season - but then-Fisher Cats Ballpark didn't open until 2005. The club played the intervening campaign at Gill Stadium, winning the Eastern League crown in a 90-year-old ballpark that had been seriously renovated for that one-season assignment.

The new playpen's naming rights were sold the next season, labeling it Merchantsauto.com Stadium from 2005 through 2010. Northeast Delta Dental has owned the rights since. "Northeast" - originally included in the stadium name - was dropped from the playpen moniker before the 2022 season.

MLB imposed new facility standards in its 2021 Minor League Reorganization, and the club estimates getting the ballpark in compliance will cost more than $5.5 million. The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen has approved splitting that cost equally with Fishers ownership.

In 2009, Braves superstar John Smoltz bulged the place with 8,903 during a rehabilitation start for the Portland Sea Dogs. That unseated the 2008 All-Star Game's 8,115 for the house baseball record.

It features one of the minors' largest sports bars, the Sam Adams Brewhouse.