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Red Stockings Base Ball Park

St. Louis, MO · 1875–1875

Archive ground · visual record pending Red Stockings Base Ball Park

St. Louis, MO

1875–1875

No rights-cleared, venue-specific photograph was found. This identification plate uses only verified archive data and is not a reconstruction of the ground.

Red Stockings Base Ball Park was a ballpark in St. Louis, MO. The first major-league game the register places here was on May 4, 1875 and the last on July 4, 1875. The register files it under the National Association.

14 major-league games in this archive were played here, in 1875. The park register names the St. Louis Red Stockings as having played here.

The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on May 4, 1875, when the St. Louis Brown Stockings beat the St. Louis Red Stockings 15–9. George Bradley started for the St. Louis Brown Stockings and Joe Blong for the St. Louis Red Stockings. Denny Mack was the plate umpire. The latest game in the Retrosheet logs was on July 4, 1875, when the Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Red Stockings 12–5. Bill Parks started for the Washington Nationals and Pidgey Morgan for the St. Louis Red Stockings. Ned Cuthbert was the plate umpire. The largest announced attendance in the available logs was 1,500, for a game between the Washington Nationals and the St. Louis Red Stockings on June 27, 1875.

The major leagues also played in St. Louis, MO at Grand Avenue Park (1875–1877), Sportsman's Park I (1882–1892), Union Grounds (1884–1886), Robison Field (1893–1920), and Sportsman's Park II (1902–1908), and 4 other grounds.