Ballpark

Sportsman's Park II

St. Louis · 1902–1908 · config 1908

Favors pitchers

(-0.1 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 342′ · SLF 333′ · LFA 350′ · LC 350′ · LCC 428′ · CF 390′ · RCC 468′ · RC 400′ · RFA 400′ · SRF 331′ · RF 300′

Walls LF 10′ · LC 8′ · CF 15′ · RC 8′ · RF 10′

Browns' yard on the Grand Avenue footprint

Average foul ground

Capacity 17,000

Grand Avenue baseball before the concrete Sportsman's rose.

Overhead diagram

Sportsman's Park II overhead schematicLF 342′SLF 333′LFA 350′LC 350′LCC 428′CF 390′RCC 468′RC 400′RFA 400′SRF 331′RF 300′10′ wall8′ wall15′ wall8′ wall10′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

No rights-cleared photograph in the asset pack for this park.

About this park

Sportsman's Park II bridged St. Louis into the pavilion era that followed. Thin early chapter; the III geometry became legend.