St. Louis Baseball History

A Guide

Brian Flaspohler, L.A. Dodgers

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781439675274
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

St. Louis has a well-deserved reputation for the best fans in baseball and a rich baseball history that stretches back to before 1860. Visit the Musial Statue and learn the history of an iconic city landmark. Tour the final resting places of baseball Hall of Famers such as George Sisler and "Cool Papa" Bell. Stop by the building Curt Flood used to create his paintings when he was off the field. Travel to a funeral home owned by a player nicknamed "Bow Wow." Author Brian Flaspohler takes you on a tour of the best baseball sites in the Gateway to the West.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• FOREWORD, BY JERRY REUSS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: 1860–1899 Baseball’s Beginning in St. Louis…1861 Baseball Today…Time For Pro Baseball… Battle Between the Colored Socks…Sportsman’s Park…Leader of the Beer and Whiskey League…Bellefontaine Cemetery…Calvary Cemetery…Lucas Wants a Team, Lucas Starts a League…The Baseball Bible…Pitcher Throws BBs, Lays Bricks…Shocking Accident…New Sportsman’s Park
• CHAPTER 2: 1900–1926 Brandishing a Mop Leads to Justifiable Homicide… Businessman Brings Browns to St. Louis…Outlaws and Lefties… Lady Bee Inherits the Cardinals…Pugnacious Patsy’s Demise…Broeg Enters the World…Pitching Staff Wrecked…Don’t Call Him Jack…The Cardinals’ Greatest Owner…Giants Played Here…The Birds on the Bat Are Born…Doak Has an Idea…Gorgeous George Sizzles…A Mule, the Devil and a Cool One…The Rajah at the Hotel Jefferson…Babe Ruth’s Favorite Brothel…Holy Cow, Carabina!
• CHAPTER 3: 1927–1947 Baseball Lifer…Yogi…Not the Best Player on His Street…Muscles Does Not Walk Like a Duck…Hall of Famer? Check the Night Shift…Fairgrounds Hotel…Rickey Does Some Farming…The Whistle Blows, the Kid Rolls…The Cat Finds His Mouse…Heine Meine’s Labor of Love…Hollocher’s End…Roomies Southworth and Sewell…Is a Baseball’s Terminal Velocity Fatal?…Girls Play Ball, Too…Beaumont High’s Hall of Famer…Maya Angelou’s Neighbor…The First Modern Sports Bar
• CHAPTER 4: 1948–1974 Musial Becomes a St. Louisian…Major League High School…Stan Musial and Biggie’s…Chase Park Plaza Hotel…Bow Wow Becomes an Undertaker…Anheuser- Busch Brewery…Youngster Witnesses Hero’s Record…That Guy Really Delivers the Milk…The Redhead…Jack Buck Is Fired…Red Bird Bowling Lanes…Keane Quits…A Palace for Cardinals and Cardinals…Gibson Has a Year…An Artist on the Field and Off
• CHAPTER 5: 1975–PRESENT This Is Not Your Fantasy Football Plaque…The Moon Man Serves Meals… The Wizard’s Sports Bar…The County Gets in on the Action…The Stars Shine Here…Mad Max…Cupples’s Innovation…Jack’s Final Rest…Sweet Lou Gives… Strawberry’s Rehabilitation…The Final Gift…Lester’s Sports Bar and Grill…Josh Hancock’s Accident…Hall of Fame Philanthropist…The Voice of the Cardinals… Hall of Fame Cemetery…Uncle Charlie…Beep Ball…Busch Stadium…Soviet-Era Artist Carved “The Man”!?
• CHAPTER 6: SUGGESTED TOUR ROUTES The Major League Ballparks Tour… Hall of Famer Gravesite Tour…The Historic Buildings Tour
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR