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It is the third stadium in St. Louis to carry the name Busch Stadium. Sportsman's Park was renamed Busch Stadium in 1953; then-team owner August Busch Jr. had planned to name it Budweiser Stadium, but at the time league rules prohibited naming a venue after an alcoholic beverage. [19]
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 original design of the stadium called for a baseball-only format, but after the NFL's Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis at the end of the 1959 season, becoming known as the football Cardinals in St. Louis, the design was altered to accommodate football as well: the football Cardinals would share Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium with the ...
Old Busch Stadium, 1966 Home of: St. Louis Brown Stockings – National Association (1875) and National League (1876–1877) St. Louis Browns – American Association (1882–1891) and as St. Louis Cardinals – NL (mid-1920 to mid-1966) St. Louis Whites – Western Association (1888 part season) St. Louis Browns – American League (1902–1953)
Mission Taco Joint owners Jason and Adam Tilford stated in the release, “Busch Stadium and the Cardinals are synonymous with St. Louis so it’s a proud moment for Mission Taco Joint to have a ...
The Cardinals built Busch Memorial Stadium, or Busch II, in downtown St. Louis, opened it during the 1966 season and played there until 2005. [122] It was built as the multi-purpose stadium home of both the baseball Cardinals and the NFL football Cardinals , who are now the Arizona Cardinals ; the NFL's Rams also played the first four games of ...
St. Louis (3) Busch Stadium (3) St. Louis Cardinals (2) 30,693 National July 8, 1958: Baltimore: Memorial Stadium: Baltimore Orioles: 48,829 American July 7, 1959: Pittsburgh (2) Forbes Field (2) Pittsburgh Pirates (2) 35,277 National August 3, 1959: Los Angeles: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Dodgers: 55,105 National July 11, 1960 ...
St. Louis Cardinals (1938–42, 1946–47) Demolished (part became Al Lang Field) West End Park: 1905 1945 Houston, Texas: 2,500 St. Louis Cardinals (1906–1908) St. Louis Browns (1909–1910, 1915) New York Yankees (1914) Demolished (became part of Interstate 45) West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium: 1963 1997 West Palm Beach, Florida: 5,000