{"id":51059,"date":"2017-04-07T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=51059"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:02","slug":"flashback-friday-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-179\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today, we posted a partial picture of an aerial photo to make it a bit more challenging.\u00a0Here\u2019s the full photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pictured is a streetcar moving southbound on Grand Boulevard between Sullivan Avenue and Dodier Street. Does that location ring a bell? That&#8217;s because that\u2019s the location of the old Sportsman\u2019s Park (aka Busch Stadium I). The year is 1949.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The local nine won 96 games that year, earning them and October filled with tee times and vacations. The Brooklyn Dodgers bested them by one game in the end. Sure didn\u2019t help that the Cardinals dropped five of the final six games of the season \u2013 ouch!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Following the stadium of Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Cardinals\u2019 and Browns\u2019 North Side stadium was\u00a0tucked in among the residences and operated as a baseball yard from 1867 to 1966. The stadium\u2019s capacity grew from 8,000 in 1902 to its peak of 34,000 by 1948.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fb0407-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fb0407-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fb0407-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fb0407-1-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we posted a partial picture of an aerial photo to make it a bit more challenging.\u00a0Here\u2019s the full photo. Pictured is a streetcar moving southbound on Grand Boulevard between Sullivan Avenue and Dodier Street. Does that location ring a bell? That&#8217;s because that\u2019s the location of the old Sportsman\u2019s Park (aka Busch Stadium I). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[184,747,969],"class_list":["post-51059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-featured","tag-flashback-friday","tag-st-louis-history"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}