Penn Medicine Park (formerly known as "Clipper Magazine Stadium") is a baseball park located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood. It is the home of the Lancaster Stormers, the city's Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB) franchise. It hosted its first regular-season baseball game on May 11, 2005, with the Stormers losing to the Atlantic City Surf, 4–3.
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The ballpark also serves as the corporate headquarters for the Atlantic League and seats 8,000 people. The ballpark features an artificial turf playing field. Its many food stands serve Pennsylvania Dutch and Philadelphia cuisine such as whoopie pies, cheesesteaks, hoagies, Tastykakes, soft pretzels from local bakeries and the Philly Pretzel Factory, barbecue from the four-time state champion Hess's BBQ, hot dogs from Kunzler & Company, beer from the Lancaster Brewing Company and Yuengling, ice cream and tea from Turkey Hill, salty treats from Utz and Snyder's of Hanover, and confections from nearby Hershey's. Penn Medicine Park lies in the Northwest Corridor of Lancaster city, which includes Franklin & Marshall College and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. In October 2008, the venue hosted vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. About 104,000 fans on BallparkDigest.com, a website by August Publications, ranked Penn Medicine Park the "2020 Best of the Ballparks" out of all independent U.S. and Canadian baseball parks by a margin of 86 to 14 percent over the next runner-up, U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana. Penn Medicine Park also won the 2021 "Best of the Ballparks MLB Partner Leagues" over runner-up, Franklin Field in suburban Milwaukee. The Atlantic League awarded Penn Medicine Park the "Ballpark of the Year" following the end of its 2013 regular season, commemorating the Stormers staff for their excellence in groundskeeping and operations. The University of Pennsylvania Health System (i.e., "Penn Medicine"), a Philadelphia-based healthcare company with three local affiliates—Lancaster General Hospital, the Women & Babies Hospital, and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital—purchased the naming rights for an undisclosed sum over ten years in 2025.