Notice about 1:30 a player retrieves his glove off the field. Up till about the 40-50s players would leave their gloves in the field when they went in to bat.
Nice footage of Sportsman's Park. The stadium was actually owned by the American League's Browns. The footage we see hereis the way it looked for many years until the Cardinals built a new park in 1966. The Browns, surprisingly, had a very good team in 1922, narrowly miasing the pennant.Managment thought they were going to win a pennant soon, so they expanded the size of Sportsman's Park. However, it was the 1926 Cardinals who went to and won the World Series against the Yankees. Sportsman's Park was the site of the "Trolleycar Series in 1944 when the Cardals beat the Browns in a 6-game series. After a seruies of terrible teams and even worse attendance (They actually drew only 80,000 for the ENTIRE 1934 season, the Browns gave up the ghost 20 years later, sold the park to the Cardinals and moved to Baltimore.
I'm glad the comments clarified this is Cards versus Cubs opening day in 1927. Amazing video of the ballpark I remember attending in the early 1960s when it was still around.
I grew up in St. Louis and went to games there from '58 thru '66. Yes, this is how it looked back in the 20's & 30's, but after Anheuser-Busch bought the team in '53, they did a nice job of cleaning up the place and renamed it from Sportsmans Park to Busch Stadium. During the late 50's thru the mid-60's it looked WAY nicer than it looks in this footage. Torn down in 1966 to make way for the "cookie-cutter" Busch Stadium 2. A Herbert Hoover Boys Club is there now with a soccer field. I bet most of those kids playing there have no Idea that 10 World Series were played on that field. Time marches on!
Wow, this really was Americas favorite pastime, wasn't it? Maybe it was the melancholy I felt because of the music but watching this made me feel what it must have felt like to be there....simpler and in a lot of ways, more honest, innocent times. Brings a tear to my eye.
Yeah unfortunately really tough times we’re just around the corner. My father spent many a day at Sportsman’s Park. His first game was in 1951 or 52, the Tigers played the St.Louis Browns that day. In 1961 or 62 I can’t remember what he told me but he and his friends went to a double hitter against the Cubs and Ernie Banks hit a HR almost to dead center field that almost left the ballpark completely. It hit a flag pool at the back of the bleachers almost at the very top. Just missed hitting it out of Sportsman’s Park by then known as Busch Stadium. What fun memories the older generations had of these beautiful and fine treasures of the past. I wish I could have seen them. I did get to go to Wrigley Field in 2007. I was blown away how cool it was.
This is from the Cardinals' 1927 home opener--the year after they won the 1926 World Series. The date of this game was April 20, 1927. The home team beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2.
As you said, it was year after the Cardinals won the World Series. So, to look at it another way, it was the beginning of their defense of the World Championship. The ‘26 Championship was the first of the (so far) eleven championships the Cards have won. For one hundred bonus points, how many of those eleven have they successfully defended??
I was at that game!! A little 6-year-old boy!! But I remember it as if it was yesterday!! Video is great but the game and stadium was actually in color, like games today __ my dad introduced me to Frankie Frisch after the game!!!⚾️⚾️
The initial game footage was from the Cardinals home opener against the Cubs in 1927. The play by play shown on the note matches the play by play of that game.
He got the year wrong. The '26 and '28 Series were in St. Louis. The '27 Series was in Pittsburgh. All three featured the Yankees from the American League.
Great video thanks for posting. Something magical about watching old world series footage as it helps give perspective on time and the timeless aspects of baseball.
This footage is the Cardinals home-opener in St. Louis on April 20, 1927. Cards won 4-2. The note explaining the details happened in the bottom of the 8th. Excellent footage!
As kids, my friend and me waited for foul balls on the sidewalk outside Sportsman's Park. His dad owned a greasy spoon on the street. I think his burgers were a quarter. Funny, he shaped the burgers to resemble a ball but they were small. At a game we would bang the drop down wooden seats against the metal seat frame, especially when Musial was batting.
See Snyder's comments below...while the Browns were paying off the stadium, the Cardinals were just paying rent, which gave them the extra cash to scout and build those incredible rosters that kept them competitive (and for many seasons, superior) to the rest of the NL.
Only The Keokuk( Iowa) team for a half a season in 1875 in the 1st pro league, the N.A.A.( pre- NL). Played on the west bank of the Mississippi for about 40 games, then folded.But played Forrest City, Chicago, etc.The ballfield now a city park.
Thank God, for the good old days....
This was at a time when the Cubs had more World Series titles than the Cardinals.
Thanks so much tom for sharing this lovely piece of Baseball gold.
This is like looking through a window in time. Thanks for posting
To think civil war veterans where in the crowd that day . Cool video
Notice about 1:30 a player retrieves his glove off the field. Up till about the 40-50s players would leave their gloves in the field when they went in to bat.
Nice footage of Sportsman's Park. The stadium was actually owned by the American League's Browns. The footage we see hereis the way it looked for many years until the Cardinals built a new park in 1966. The Browns, surprisingly, had a very good team in 1922, narrowly miasing the pennant.Managment thought they were going to win a pennant soon, so they expanded the size of Sportsman's Park. However, it was the 1926 Cardinals who went to and won the World Series against the Yankees. Sportsman's Park was the site of the "Trolleycar Series in 1944 when the Cardals beat the Browns in a 6-game series. After a seruies of terrible teams and even worse attendance (They actually drew only 80,000 for the ENTIRE 1934 season, the Browns gave up the ghost 20 years later, sold the park to the Cardinals and moved to Baltimore.
Unfortunately Baltimore does little to acknowledge their ancestors from St. Louis.
No, that's Wrigley with the humongous flag pole in CF where Ruth hit that HR.
I was wrong- it's St.Louis
@@daniellinehan63
Indeed.
Psssh.
95 years ago. Planet Earth, now all new adults! One of the greatest teams ever is about to take the field too. The 27 Yankees!
It doesn’t matter how old they are! They are always #1 in my book!
I'm glad the comments clarified this is Cards versus Cubs opening day in 1927. Amazing video of the ballpark I remember attending in the early 1960s when it was still around.
This is a great clip thanks for this!
For 1927 this footage is excellent quality.
This makes me homesick for a time and place I have never been.
I like how you said that, I feel the same.
@@JayDogTitan-he6wo I understand fully!
I grew up in St. Louis and went to games there from '58 thru '66. Yes, this is how it looked back in the 20's & 30's, but after Anheuser-Busch bought the team in '53, they did a nice job of cleaning up the place and renamed it from Sportsmans Park to Busch Stadium. During the late 50's thru the mid-60's it looked WAY nicer than it looks in this footage. Torn down in 1966 to make way for the "cookie-cutter" Busch Stadium 2. A Herbert Hoover Boys Club is there now with a soccer field. I bet most of those kids playing there have no Idea that 10 World Series were played on that field. Time marches on!
I just found this, thank you for posting.
Amazing footage of the outside of the stadium
Baseball was so different in the 1920s. It looked really old. My parents weren't even born yet.
Wow, this really was Americas favorite pastime, wasn't it? Maybe it was the melancholy I felt because of the music but watching this made me feel what it must have felt like to be there....simpler and in a lot of ways, more honest, innocent times. Brings a tear to my eye.
Cheer up. Simpler times, perhaps. But the Great Depression was right around the corner. Life was no longer all that simple.
@@richardweiler6931 baseball, history, classic, Field of Dream!
@@richardweiler6931
Yes it was.
Yeah unfortunately really tough times we’re just around the corner. My father spent many a day at Sportsman’s Park. His first game was in 1951 or 52, the Tigers played the St.Louis Browns that day. In 1961 or 62 I can’t remember what he told me but he and his friends went to a double hitter against the Cubs and Ernie Banks hit a HR almost to dead center field that almost left the ballpark completely. It hit a flag pool at the back of the bleachers almost at the very top. Just missed hitting it out of Sportsman’s Park by then known as Busch Stadium. What fun memories the older generations had of these beautiful and fine treasures of the past. I wish I could have seen them. I did get to go to Wrigley Field in 2007. I was blown away how cool it was.
Card and Yanks played in the 26 series and in 27 it was Pittsburgh and the Yanks but wow thanks for this great historic video keep em coming
This is from the Cardinals' 1927 home opener--the year after they won the 1926 World Series. The date of this game was April 20, 1927. The home team beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2.
Where you there?
As you said, it was year after the Cardinals won the World Series. So, to look at it another way, it was the beginning of their defense of the World Championship. The ‘26 Championship was the first of the (so far) eleven championships the Cards have won.
For one hundred bonus points, how many of those eleven have they successfully defended??
@@djquinn11 I was almost there. But it was completely sold out. I was crushed. So I headed back to work.
I wish they could do something about those starch collars. I’m retiring soon, and the only time I’ll put on a tie is for a ball game!
@@richardkammerer2814 Man! I know just what you mean.
I was at that game!! A little 6-year-old boy!! But I remember it as if it was yesterday!! Video is great but the game and stadium was actually in color,
like games today __ my dad introduced me to Frankie Frisch after the game!!!⚾️⚾️
That’s amazing!!
@@mouchiecat1~ Yeah, a little too amazing to be true. Do the math.
@@acousticshadow4032
It's true. I sat next to him.
Watch your mouth. Punk.
Or I'll 'do your math'...
Beautiful..Thanks for showing this marvel!
So incredibly cool.
What a great video. I love old time videos.
The initial game footage was from the Cardinals home opener against the Cubs in 1927. The play by play shown on the note matches the play by play of that game.
Then where is the Gateway Arch?????
@@cadaverdog1424 the Arch wasn't built then and sportsman's park was miles away from downtown St.louis.
A Beautiful time in Baseball, looks like if belonged to a Parallel Universe.
He got the year wrong. The '26 and '28 Series were in St. Louis. The '27 Series was in Pittsburgh. All three featured the Yankees from the American League.
Great video thanks for posting. Something magical about watching old world series footage as it helps give perspective on time and the timeless aspects of baseball.
I hear you
This footage is the Cardinals home-opener in St. Louis on April 20, 1927. Cards won 4-2. The note explaining the details happened in the bottom of the 8th. Excellent footage!
HEY WAIT! Wasn't it the Pittsburgh Pirates that the Yankees killed in the 1927 World Series?
Jiltedin2007 Yup, it was! The uploaded obviously made a mistake. 😃
Yankees got lucky.
Great footage
Wow. I viewed this a year ago.
Forgot. Amazing!
Great vintage old video......simpler times. Great footage
Somewhere along the lines a center field score board was built with a neon redbird that flew around after a Cardinal home run
I think that might have happened during the second Busch Stadium era from 1966-2005.
Very very cool! Window in time
Back then the stadium were just freaking sit down and see the game. Now they got food stands, V.I.P lounges, and chicks.
The Cardinals had just won their FIRST championship! They defeated the NY Yankees, who, likewise, had one! Now they have 38 between them!
As kids, my friend and me waited for foul balls on the sidewalk outside Sportsman's Park. His dad owned a greasy spoon on the street. I think his burgers were a quarter. Funny, he shaped the burgers to resemble a ball but they were small. At a game we would bang the drop down wooden seats against the metal seat frame, especially when Musial was batting.
Did that at Wrigley in early '70's when Billy, Pepitone or Hickman was up !
@@daniellinehan63 For sure and Wrigley just that kind of field. Good times...
Nice!!!!!!
Amazing. The title is a little off...
But the footage is amazing.
And Rogers Hornsby...is gone.
Became a Cub in '29
@@daniellinehan63
Yes. And a NY Giant in 1927. After helping St. Louis win it all!
It was prohibition. No alcohol
Served. But u could make a drink your own. Guys brought it in to Wrigley.
The footage is actually fantastic to watch! Usually I don't bother watching film this old because the resolution is usually too poor
If you adjust the speed to .75 of normal it looks more natural. Great video. Thanks for uploading.
OK, I give: what was that tarp made of? not plastic, certainly.
perhaps canvas??
I never thought about tarps being used that long ago.
I was thinking the same thing
I was thinking, why didn't they push the tarp against the wall when play resumed? It was pretty much in play in foul territory.
A simpler time...
There. I'm the hundredth person to say it.
I checked BB Reference, this game is in Chicago. This is 10- years before the Ivey was planted.
Wednesday, April 20, 1927 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis MO.
Cards over Cubs, 4-2. WP; Sherdel. LP; Blake. No HRs.
See Snyder's comments below...while the Browns were paying off the stadium, the Cardinals were just paying rent, which gave them the extra cash to scout and build those incredible rosters that kept them competitive (and for many seasons, superior) to the rest of the NL.
I wonder if my Grandfather was at the game. He was at the end of his senior year at Washington University at that time.
MLB games during the day in the afternoons. As it should be.
wow, 95 years ago!
GAS HOUSE GANG!
Just 96 Years Ago.
A lot of foul territory. Short poke for a homer down the lines. But the pitchers must’ve loved all the foul out pop ups.
🧙♂️ ☕ ⚾
Did the Cardinals get their World Series Rings that day? The Cardinals did win the World Series in 1926.
I don't know. I know they got their rings, bats, and everything else shoved up their keisters in the 1928 World Series.
SwwwwwEEP! 🧹 🧹🧹🧹
#Hats
Just to ponder. Until 1959 was there ever a major league basebal team west of St. Louis....
Only The Keokuk( Iowa) team for a half a season in 1875 in the 1st pro league, the N.A.A.( pre- NL).
Played on the west bank of the Mississippi for about 40 games, then folded.But played Forrest City, Chicago, etc.The ballfield now a city park.
For 1 year- the 1870 Keokuk club
NAAPA- 6 yrs before NL formed)
It ain't the '27 Series.
Or that ain't the Cardinals.
26 or 28. Not 27!
Can anyone identify any notable players?
Baseball was a big deal back then.
I was at that game.
Cubs won 10-1 that day
Back when people knew what gender they were and right from wrong.
GLAD baseball parks stopped playing BORING piano music like this.
Glad that even shitbirds like you get to comment on videos. On second thought... No I'm not. Shut up.
Wednesday, April 20th. Cards win 4-2. -mikenotpaula.