St Louis Big League Ball Parks by Joan M Thomas

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Baseball came to St. Louis before the dawn of the major leagues. It was a gentlemen's game, a simple summer pastime, and its popularity grew as the city evolved. Local amateur teams proliferated, and interest in organizing a team of professionals resulted in two such teams in 1875, the Brown Stockings and the Red Stockings. The Browns and the Reds played at two different ballparks, the Grand Avenue Grounds and the Red Stockings Park. The first fully professional game of baseball held in St. Louis took place at the latter. Very few modern fans are aware of this, or of these parks locations. Moreover, there was a time in the early twentieth century when St. Louis supported not two, but three major league teams, each with its own ballpark. This book celebrates that era of early baseball, and is a keepsake of the stadiums and playing fields of St. Louis baseball past.