New Hampshire Fisher Cats Tickets

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats are a minor league baseball team based in Manchester, New Hampshire. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets of the Toronto Blue Jays major-league club.

During the team's first season in Manchester, the Fisher Cats played at New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets Gill Stadium, a historic ballpark in a residential neighborhood. Starting with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets 2005 season, the Fisher Cats have played at Merchantsauto.com Stadium (originally known as simply "Fisher Cats Ballpark") located in Manchester. The park seats 6,500 fans.

The Fisher Cats won the Eastern League championship in 2004, their first season in New Hampshire after moving the franchise from New Haven, Connecticut.

In 1992, New Haven, Connecticut was granted an expansion Double-A franchise which was named the New Haven Ravens. The Ravens began play in the 1994 season affiliated with the Colorado Rockies. The team hosted the New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets 1998 Double-A All-Star Game, was league runner-up in 1995 and 2003, and won the Eastern League Championship in 2000 with an 82-60 record, defeating the Binghamton Mets 3 games to New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets 1 in the championship series.

On January 26, 2003, the team was sold to businessman Drew Weber, who had the intent of moving the team to Manchester, NH. During the league playoffs on September 2, 2003, the Eastern League baseball team New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets owners voted to approve the move. The team's first season in Manchester was 2004.

The Ravens played in Yale Field.

On November 6, 2003, the new management unveiled the New Hampshire Primaries name and logo, New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets which featured an elephant and a donkey holding baseball bats, and was to be used starting in the 2004 season. The management stated that they felt it reflected a unique aspect of the state, since the New Hampshire primary, held every four years, signifies the start of the Presidential New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets election process. Immediately, the name and logo were widely criticized. An online petition New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets was created by two local baseball fans asking the team ownership to New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets reconsider their decision and was covered by New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets local newspapers, radio, and New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets television stations. This coverage was led by a front-page article in the New Hampshire Union Leader, New Hampshire's largest newspaper, New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets on Sunday November 9, 2003. By the afternoon of November 10, over 1200 unique visitors had signed the petition. Later New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets in the day, the team announced that they would not use the Primaries name after all and that they would seek public opinion on a new name.

On November 13, 2003, the team announced the “Name the Team” contest which had three New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets phases over the following weeks. New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets During the first phase, fans submitted suggestions. During the second phase, fans ranked their top New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets five favorite names from the suggestions. For the final phase, fans voted New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets for their single favorite among the top New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets five names from the second round. On December 3, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets final voting results were announced: New Hampshire Fisher Cats (1,574 votes - 24.5%), Manchester Millers New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets (1,552 votes - 24.1%), Granite State Mountain Men (1,382 vote - 21.5%), New Hampshire Granite (1,302 votes - 20.2%), and New Hampshire Primaries (627 votes - 9.7%).

On January 22, 2004, the team unveiled New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets the set of logos that would be used for the name New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

The ultimate source of the name is New Hampshire Fisher Cats tickets from the fisher, most often called a fisher cat in New Hampshire.