After 141 years of professional baseball being played in Wilmington, Delaware, the 7,500th game in the city's history will be played on July 4th, 2025 at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium when the Wilmington Blue Rocks take on the Jersey Shore BlueClaws.
Dating back to the Wilmington Quicksteps of the Interstate League, the city has seen numerous franchises and leagues call Wilmington home. From one of the shortest-lived "major league" baseball teams in US history in 1885 to negro league teams in the 1920s and 30s, baseball has woven a rich tapestry of history in the Wilmington community over generations.
The present-day Wilmington Blue Rocks are the longest-running professional baseball franchise in Wilmington's history, dating back to our inaugural season in 1993. Coming into the 2025 season, the current Blue Rocks franchise had accounted for 4,229 games in Wilmington's professional baseball history. Hall-of-Famer Connie Mack and Bob Carpenter owned Blue Rocks franchise of the Interstate League in the 1940s and 1950s accounts for the second-most games in Wilmington history at 1,761. The Wilmington Quicksteps, Wilmington Peaches, and Wilmington Chicks, alongside a few other shortly-lived franchises, round out the grand total number of professional baseball games played by a Wilmington-based franchise.
Wilmington Baseball Season-By-Season