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Busch Stadium (also referred to informally as "New Busch Stadium" or "Busch Stadium III") is a baseball stadium located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the home of Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals. It has a seating capacity of 44,383, [2] with 3,706 club seats and 61 luxury suites.
Busch Memorial Stadium (Busch Stadium II) was a multi-purpose sports facility in St. Louis, Missouri, that operated for 40 years, from 1966 through 2005. [5] Built as Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium, its official name was shortened to Busch Stadium in January 1982.
He also wrote a book titled Bob Forsch's Tales from the Cardinals Dugout, with Tom Wheatley. [20] Forsch died suddenly from a thoracic aortic aneurysm on November 3, 2011. [21] Less than a week before his death, he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game Seven of the 2011 World Series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. [22] [23]
The ballpark (by then known as Busch Stadium, but still commonly called Sportsman's Park) was also the home to professional football: in 1923, it hosted St. Louis' first NFL team, the All-Stars, and later hosted the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League from 1960 (following the team's relocation from Chicago) until 1965, with ...
The football Cardinals called St. Louis and Busch Stadium/Busch Memorial Stadium home through the 1987 season, after which the Cardinals migrated to Phoenix to become the Arizona Cardinals. [17] [18] Local sports fans and media coverage referred to the two teams as the "baseball Cardinals" and "football Cardinals". For decades before the NFL ...
From 1960 to 1987, the professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals played in St. Louis, Missouri, as the St. Louis Cardinals.. The team moved from Chicago to St. Louis in 1960, and played their first home game there on October 2 at Busch Stadium against the New York Giants.
Buffalo Stadium (1928–1961) minor league ballpark, home to Houston Buffs, farm team of the St. Louis Cardinals; also called Buff Stadium and later Busch Stadium. Sportsman's Park (1892–1966) was renamed Busch Stadium in 1953, and was home of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League, the St. Louis Browns of the American League and St ...
Buck and Shannon announcing a Cardinals game at Busch, 1992 After Caray was fired by the Cardinals following the 1969 season, Buck ascended to the team's lead play-by-play role (1969 was also the year that Jack Buck divorced his first wife Alyce Larson—whom he had married in 1948 and had six children with—and married his second wife, Carole ...