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Fair St. Louis is an annual festival held during the United States Independence Day holiday in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, at the Gateway Arch National Park. [1] It is funded by the Veiled Prophet Organization.
The first game of the new baseball season for a team is played on Opening Day, and being named the Opening Day starter is an honor, which is often given to the player who is expected to lead the pitching staff that season, [1] though there are various strategic reasons why a team's best pitcher might not start on Opening Day. [2]
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The Fairground Park riot was a race riot that broke out on June 21, 1949, at a newly integrated public swimming pool. [1] The Fairground Park pool was located near Natural Bridge and Vandeventer Avenues in north St. Louis.
The St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves both swept their Division Series, and went on to meet in the NL Championship Series (NLCS). The Braves would rally to win that series four games to three and become the National League champion, but would lose to the American League champion New York Yankees in the 1996 World Series .
Sonny Gray (2–1, 1.04 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, .226 O-BA), lost his no-runs-allowed streak, and no-losses season on April 21, after 6.1 innings, giving up two runs in the seventh after one out, for the only scoring of the day for either team. He had 17.1 IP in his three starts before the two runs scored, giving up 14 hits, one walk, and 23 strikeouts.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as Appraised by Ten Distinguished Americans (St. Louis, 1926). Orrick Johns , Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself , (New York, 1937). George Sibley Johns , father of the author, was editor of the Post-Dispatch for many years, and was the last of Joseph Pulitzer's "Fighting Editors".
The first LDS temple in Missouri was dedicated by Gordon B. Hinckley in the St. Louis area in 1997. [ 6 ] For much of the early 20th century, Liahona The Elders' Journal was published in Independence, Missouri this was the main LDS publication aimed at church members living in the United States outside of the Mormon corridor .