The stadium was the finest of its day when it was built, made of steel and concrete, the stadium was built to last and had a number of what were then modern amenities. In one of the more original stadium name choices, Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss bucked the trend of naming stadiums after yourself and instead chose to honor British general John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War and is credited with naming the city of Pittsburgh. He attempted to move the right field wall in to 296 feet, putting some bleachers in right field with a makeshift fence around them.
A flock of sheep wearing Athletics blankets, complete with shepherd, down the right field line. A petting zoo with goats, sheep, monkeys, bats, and birds among other things down the left field line. A compressed air device named "Little Blowhard" that blew dirt off of home plate so the umpire didn't need to dust it off. A device that came out of the ground named "Harvey" that was a rabbit holding a basket of balls for the umpire when a new ball was needed. Luckily, the Athletics were owned by one of the craziest owners in baseball history, Charlie O'Finley, and he was never short on new ideas for the stadium, below are a few of his better ones. The stadium itself was fairly boring as far as its features. When the Blues were sold to the Yankees, the stadium was changed to Ruppert Stadium and then to just Blues Stadium, until it was purchased to be used by the Athletics, who were moving to Kansas City from Philadelphia and was named Municipal Stadium. The stadium was originally built for the Kansas City Blues, a Double-A team, and was named Muehlbach Stadium after the Blues owner, George Muelbach. The end result was one of the most decorated outfields in all of baseball, and made for a fuller looking stadium. Louis Cardinals football team as well, and renovations were made to convert the stadium to baseball-only as much of the outfield seating was closed off and many advertising signs and a scoreboard were added. The stadium was originally used by the St. One of the most noticeable features of Busch Stadium is its red seats, which add just a little more red to what is already generally a sea of Cardinals fans wearing red. This was one of the dreaded "cookie cutter" stadiums as well, but alterations were made to make it more baseball friendly, and therefore it is higher up on the list. Originally opened as the Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium, and eventually shortened to just Busch Stadium, the field was named after the Busch family of Anheuser-Busch beer fame, as they owned the team until 1996.
0 kommentar(er)
