Their first home game as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans was played on April 12, 1999, against the Potomac Cannons with 5,521 people in attendance.

[3] The first two hits at the stadium were home runs for each team, first by Potomac's Andy Bevins, and later that same game by Myrtle Beach's Ryan Lehr.

In 2004, the sports publication Baseball America rated it as the second-best Class-A level ballpark in the United States, and the best in the Carolina League in 2009.

Myrtle Beach won both the first and second-half Southern Division titles in 2008 under Rocket Wheeler, who was named Carolina League Manager of the Year.

The current owner is Myrtle Beach Pelicans LP, a group led by lawyer Chuck Greenberg.

[10] On November 20, 2012, General Manager Scott Brown left to join the Triple-A Charlotte Knights of the International League.

[11] A month later, on December 21, 2012, the Pelicans hired Andy Milovich to become the club's Vice President and General Manager.

[13] On September 16, 2014, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans reached an agreement on a player development contract (PDC) with the Chicago Cubs of the National League, beginning with the 2015 season.