Shake Those Keys!

Main entrance to Harry Grove Stadium, Apr-2003.

The seating bowl, as seen from the berm down the left-field line.

It’s a high wall, but there isn’t much to look at beyond it.

• Location: New Design Road (off Market Street), Frederick, Md.
• Opened: 1989
• Home team: Frederick Keys, Carolina League (1990-present)
• Capacity: 5,300

Rating: 3 baseballs

Frederick immortalized its favorite son by having this club, one of three in the Maryland Baseball Partnership of Orioles farm teams (the others being in Bowie and Salisbury), named the Keys. The Partnership later sold the three clubs to Comcast Spectacor, the sports operations division of the cable company.

While it isn’t spectacular, this 1989 park served as a prototype for many fine parks built during the early 1990s.

During the seventh-inning stretch, instead of the proletarian two choruses of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, fans pull out their keys and shake them to a peppy tune. After all, this is the Keys they’re rooting for.