Ballpark
Busch Stadium II
St. Louis · 1966–2005 · config 2005
Plays even
(+0.0 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 330′ · LFA 372′ · LC 372′ · CF 402′ · RC 372′ · RFA 372′ · RF 330′
Walls LF 8′ · CF 8′ · RF 8′
Cookie-cutter downtown — Arch views, AstroTurf decades
Cavernous foul ground
Capacity 49,738
A downtown cookie-cutter with the Arch peeking over the wall.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Busch Stadium II was the cookie-cutter arch-side bowl — multipurpose, near-neutral, and home to Cardinals summers for four decades. It replaced Sportsman's pavilion with symmetry. World Series noise still fit; the building itself stayed fair.