Chris von der Ahe
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Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von der Ahe was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals.
Von der Ahe, from a baseball card, 1887
Von der Ahe's grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery
Hille, Germany
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Hille is a community in the Kreis Minden-Lübbecke in the north of East Westphalia, Germany, with approximately 16,000 inhabitants. It was created in 1973 in the framework of the community restructurin
Chris von der Ahe
…best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals. Born in the fall of 1851 in Hille, Kingdom of Prussia, von der Ahe immigrated alone to New York City around 1870, but quickly moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a clerk in a grocery…
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