Sportsman's Park

Sportsman's Park was the name of a former Major League Baseball park in St. Louis, Missouri. For 33 years, 1920-1953, it was the home field of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League, after which the Browns departed to become the modern-day Baltimore Orioles. St. Louis is by far the smallest market ever to support two major-league teams in the same sport for a protracted period.

Dimensions

For a small park, there were plenty of posted distance markers.

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Once the final major remodelling was done in 1926, these were the distances:

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• Left Field Line - 351 ft
• Medium Left Center - 358 ft
• True Left Center - 379 ft
• Deep Left Center - 400 ft
• Deep Left Center Field Corner - 426 ft, the distance usually given for center field
• Deep Right Center Field Corner - 422 ft, true center field
• Deep Right Center - 405 ft
• True Right Center - 354 ft
• Medium Right Center Field - 322 ft
• Right Field Line - 310 ft
• Backstop - 68 ft