Sportman's Park - St Louis Mo

1996-May-08 St Louis Mo - 30th Anniversary

Sportsman's Park was the name of several former Major League Baseball ballpark structures in St. Louis, Missouri.  Sportsman's Park was the home field of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League, and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League. Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium was replaced early in the 1966 season by Busch Memorial Stadium 

Gameday Postmark - This Day in Baseball

Mailed from New York's Cathedral Station, cover has an oval postmark on the cover to cancel the stamps

The reverse has two postmarks dated April 21, 1949 New York

On this day: 

Washington Senators 1-2 New York Yankees

Yankee Stadium - attendance 11, 659

Washington RBI: Buddy Lewis (HR)

NYY RBI: Billy Johnson (HR), Hank Bauer

Pitching: Was-Forrest Thompson complete game loss; NYY-Tommy Byrne complete game win

across town:

New York Giants 4-1 Brooklyn Dodgers

Ebbetts Field - attendance 22, 436

Giants RBI: Mickey Livingston 2(HR), Sid Gordon 2(HR)

Pitching: NYG Clint Hartung complete game win; Preacher Roe 7 innings-loss

April 22, 1949 Registered - Chicago, Il

StLouis Brown 2-5 Chicago White Sox

StL RBI: Jack Graham, Paul Lehner

CWS RBI: Dave Philly 2, Marino Pieretti, Gus Zernial, Gordon Goldsberry

Pitching: StL Red Embree - 3 innings loss; Marino Pieretti 7 innings win

Gameday Postmark - This Day in Baseball

1928-Aug-24 New York - Yankee Stadium

The St Louis Browns met the New York Yankees in a rescheduled double-header

Game 1: rescheduled from Aug 23, 1928 (rain)

StL Browns 5 - 2 NY Yankees

Browns RBI: Red Dress 2, Heinie Manush, Beauty McGowan, Wally Schang (HR)

Yankees RBI: Lou Gehrig 2

Yankees doubles: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig

Winning pitcher: General Crowder - 9 innings

Losing pitcher: Wally Pipgras - 8 innings

Game 2: rescheduled from Aug 22, 1928 (rain)

StL Browns 3-1 NY Yankees

Browns RBI: Otis Brannan, Fred Schulte

Yankees RBI: Tony Lazzeri (HR)

Winning pitcher: George Blaeholder - 9 innings

Losing pitcher: Fred Heimach - 9 innings

Gameday Postmark - This Day in Baseball

Boston Red Sox v St Louis Browns

May 9, 1939 Sportsman's Park, St Louis, Mo

Red Sox 10-8 Browns

Red Sox RBI: Jimmie Foxx 3 (HR); Ted Williams 3 (HR); Doc Cramer 2; Jim Tabor; Jim Bagby

Browns RBI: Beau Bell 3 (HR); Billy Sullivan 2 (HR); George McQuinn 2; Myril Hoag

Pitchers: Joe Heving (W-Red Sox) Ed Cole (L-Browns)

Pete Gray

 

1995-Apr-17 Nanitoke, Pa

50th Anniversary of game appearance against the Detroit Tigers

Pete Gray (b. Peter Wyshner) was a one-armed baseball player, making his debut for the StLouis Browns on April 17, 1946

A childhood accident caused his right arm to be amputated above the elbow. His enthusiasm for baseball led him to learn to bat and field one-handed. By the age of 19, he was playing outfield for the Hanover Lits of the Wyoming valley Anthracite League. he would go on to play semi-pro with Pine Gove in Pennsylvania and Scranton in Brooklyn.

Gray earned tryouts with the St Louis Browns and the Philadelphia Athletics, but did not get called by either team. Gray continued to play in the minor leagues and semi-pro, with eh Trois-Rivieres Renards of the Canadian-American League, the Memphis chicks of the Southern Association and the independent Brooklyn Bushwicks

The St Louis Browns purchased his contract from the Chicks, and he would go on to play 77 games, batting .218 with a .958 fielding average

St Louis Browns - official business

1993-Sep-27 St Louis Mo

40th Anniversary of the last game played by the St Louis Browns - attendance 3,174

1953-Sep-27  St Louis Mo

Chicago White Sox 2 - 1 St Louis Browns

CHW RBI: Jim Rivera (HR); Minnie Miñoso

SLB RBI: Ed Mickelson

Pitching: CHW – Billy Pierce (W 11-innings 7-hits 8-Ks) 

SLB – Duane Pillette (L 11-innings 9-hits 8-Ks)

With the St Louis Browns Sportsman Park - 1952 meter

Ned Garver - St Louis Browns

Commemorative postmark honoring Ned Garver

April 1, 1996 Ney, Oh

Hometown of Ned Garver in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of his 20-game winning season for the St Louis Browns. The Browns finished the 1951 season with a record of 52-102.

Garver would also pitch for the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics and Los Angeles Angels during a 14-year career.

Satchel Paige

Aug 6, 1984 - TCMA, Ltd, producer of minor league baseball cards jumped on the first day cover collecting bandwagon. The release of the Babe ruth stamp in 1983 found baseball card collectors building collections of first day covers. 

To further reach out to the baseball collector TCMA issued first day covers under the heading "On This Day In Baseball History". Each of these covers would highlight a historical baseball event that occurred on the day a particular stamp was issued, although the issuance of the stamp had no relationship to baseball.

On this day: 1952 a 46 year old Satchel Paige of the St Louis Browns beat Virgil "Fire" Trucks and the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings to become the oldest hurler to pitch a complete game or a shutout...