Robison Field
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Robison Field is the best-known of several names given to a former Major League Baseball park in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the home of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League from April 27, 1
Crowd gathered around St. Louis Cardinals baseball players between games of doubleheader vs. NY Giants at Robison Field, Aug 26, 1914.
1893 scorebook cover
Artist's conception of 1898 fire
1901 fire
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.
Robison Field
…Although the Browns had been the most successful of the Association clubs, they fell on hard times for some years after the merger. For 1893, owner Chris von der Ahe moved his team a few blocks to the northwest and opened a "New" Sportsman's Park, on the southeast corner of Natural Bridge and Vandeventer. The move…
Von der Ahe, from a baseball card, 1887
Von der Ahe's grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery