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Atlanta Braves
 

Champion Stadium
Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex
Kissimmee, FL 34747
Ticket Information: (407) 939-GAME

2009 Ticket Prices                 Purchase tickets online
Lower Level Reserved (Sections 107-117): $28; Premium Games: $32
Sections 104-106 (All Rows): $24; Premium Games: $28
Sections 101-103 (All Rows): $22; Premium Games: $26

Upper Level Reserved (Sections 207-220, Rows A-L); $24; Premium Games: $28
Upper Level Reserved (Sections 207-208, Rows M & up): $22; Premium Games: $26
Upper Level Reserved (Sections 216-220, Rows M & up): $22; Premium Games: $26

General Admission Lawn Seating $15; Premium Games: $19

Available Monday, November 24 by calling (407) 939-GAME or at www.ticketmaster.com
Three-game Mini-Plans are available for $76 and Five-Game Mini-Plans are available for $128.
  1st Half Mini-Plan: 3/1 vs Phillies; 3/4 vs. Yankees and 3/6 vs. Astros
  2nd Half Mini-Plan: 3/24 vs. Pirates; 3/27 vs. Tigers; 3/30 vs. Red Sox
  Five-Game Mini-Plan: 3/12 vs. Nationals; 3/15 vs. Astros; 3/17 vs. Mets; 3/20 vs. Marlins; 3/28 vs. Yankees
 

Individual game tickets go on sale, January 10, 2009

2009 Braves Spring Training Home Schedule        Click here for printable version
HOME GAMES IN ALL CAPS - All times local

Day

Date

Opposing Team

Location

Time

Wednesday February 25 Detroit Tigers Lakeland 1:05 p.m.

Thursday

February 26

Houston Astros

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Friday February 27 Pittsburgh Pirates Bradenton 1:05 p.m.
Saturday February 28 Toronto Blue Jays Dunedin 1:05 p.m.

Sunday

March 1

Philadelphia Phillies

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday

March 3

WBC TEAM - PANAMA

ORLANDO

1:05 p.m.

Wednesday

March 4

New York Yankees **

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Thursday

March 5

WBC TEAM - VENEZUELA

ORLANDO

2:05 p.m.

Friday

March 6

Houston Astros

Orlando

7:05 p.m.

Saturday March 7 New York Yankees Tampa 1:15 p.m.

Sunday

March 8

Philadelphia Phillies

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday March 10 Houston Astros Kissimmee 1:05 pm.
Wednesday March 11 Philadelphia Phillies Clearwater 1:05 pm.

Thursday

March 12

Washington Nationals

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Friday March 13 Florida Marlins Jupiter 1:05 pm.
Saturday March 14 St. Louis Cardinals Jupiter 1:05 p.m.

Sunday

March 15

Houston Astros

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday

March 17

New York Mets **

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Wednesday March 18 New York Mets Port St. Lucie 1:05 p.m.

Thursday

March 19

Detroit Tigers

Orlando

7:05 p.m.

Friday

March 20

Florida Marlins

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Saturday

March 21

New York Mets **

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Sunday March 22 New York Mets Port St. Lucie 1:10 p.m.

Tuesday

March 24

Pittsburgh Pirates

Orlando

6:05 p.m.

Wednesday March 25 Washington Nationals Viera 7:05 pm.

Thursday

March 26

Toronto Blue Jays

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Friday

March 27

Detroit Tigers

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Saturday

March 28

New York Yankees **

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Sunday March 29 Detroit Tigers Lakeland 1:05 p.m.

Monday

March 30

Boston Red Sox **

Orlando

1:05 p.m.

Tuesday March 31 Houston Astros Kissimmee 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday April 1 Detroit Tigers Lakeland 1:05 p.m.
Thursday April 2 Houston Astros Kissimmee 1:05 p.m.

** Denotes Premium Games

Directions to Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex

From southwest -- Take I-4 East to Osceola Parkway West (Exit 65). Turn left at stoplight onto Victory Way to stadium.
From southeast -- Take Florida Turnpike north to Exit 249 (Osceola Parkway West); go about 10 miles; turn left onto Victory Way to stadium.

Stadium Information
Parking: No parking charge
Stadium built in 1996
Dimensions: 340 feet right and leftfield lines, 385 power alleys, 400 feet centerfield
Seating Capacity: 9,500
Braves 12th Spring Training at this location. 

Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves Spring Training History
1906 Jacksonville
1916-18 Miami
1922-37 St. Petersburg (Waterfront Field)
1938-40 Bradenton (McKechnie Field)
1942 Sanford
1946-47 Ft. Lauderdale
1948-62 Bradenton (McKechnie Field)
1963-97 West Palm Beach (West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium)
1998-2009 Lake Buena Vista (Disney's Wide World of Sports)


Attending a Braves Spring Training Game
Champion Stadium at Disney's Wide World of Sports is architecturally one of the flashier venues for spring training. It's also one of the largest: with 9,500 seats (80 percent between the first and third bases). The design is in a Florida Spanish Mission design with some Art Deco touches.
 
The stadium is a marvel with double-decked seating and the cheerful cast members playing the role of concessionaires. The gentlest part of the park is the general admission seating area down the left-line, which isn’t designed for sitting at all, but for lounging on an emerald hill atop blankets and beach towels brought from home. The ballpark is spotlessly clean, but then this is Disney: What else did you expect? There is a very agreeable spaciousness to the stadium, despite almost all the seating being concentrated in the two-deck grandstand. The lower level features two concourses -- a small one at the back of the grandstand and a much larger one within the grandstand -- while the upper level features a large concourse within the grandstand, four luxury boxes and two open-air suites. The wider concourses make for pleasant milling around during the game, and there's an expanded area outside of the grandstand that can accommodate groups.

In-game entertainment provides plenty to keep fans busy between innings.  A four-piece brass band climbs atop the Braves dugout to play.  A roving emcee asks randomly-selected fans trivia questions and to guess the attendance for prizes.  Besides the gift shop behind home plate, there are plenty of carts placed around the stadium offering Braves merchandise and memorabilia.

Braves Spring Training Attendance (2000-08)
. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Attendance 89,410 75,796 69,655 68,380 79,633 87,292 142,467 140,034 135,367
Number of Games 1515 1616 1716 15 15 15
Average Attendance 8,721 8,614 7,760 8,267 8,535 9,528 9,498 9,335 9,024

Area Information
Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau, (407) 363-5800 or www.orlandoinfo.com
Kissimmee/St. Cloud Convention & Visitors Bureau, (407) 847-5000 or www.floridakiss.com
Central Florida Sports Commission, (407) 648-4900 or www.orlandosports.org


Official Atlanta Braves Web Site