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The Cardinals corporation asked for and received $49 million in tax breaks from the City of St. Louis to help build the $100 million first phase. [ 11 ] Ground was officially broken on February 8, 2013, for the 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m 2 ) first-phase of the project.
Turtle Creek Stadium (formerly Pit Spitters Park and Wuerfel Park) is a 4,660-seat multi-use entertainment facility in Blair Township, Michigan, in the United States. It hosted its first regular season baseball game on May 24, 2006 as the tenants of the facility, the Traverse City Beach Bums , [ 1 ] took on the Kalamazoo Kings .
St. Louis Base Ball Park, 1868-1874 Grand Avenue Park, 1874-1881 Sportsman's Park, 1881-1893 Old Sportsman's Park, 1893-1898 Athletic Park, 1898-1902 Sportsman's Park, 1902-1953 Busch Stadium (I), 1953-1966 Old Busch Stadium, 1966 Home of: St. Louis Brown Stockings – National Association (1875) and National League (1876–1877)
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The ballpark (by then known as Busch Stadium, but still commonly called Sportsman's Park) was also the home to professional football: in 1923, it hosted St. Louis' first NFL team, the All-Stars, and later hosted the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League from 1960 (following the team's relocation from Chicago) until 1965, with ...
In 1995, St. Louis Cardinals team ownership began to lobby for a new ballpark in downtown St. Louis, but the team was unable to acquire funding for the project for several years. In June 2001, the Missouri state government signed a contract with the team, proposing a ballpark in downtown St. Louis, but a subsequent funding bill was struck down ...
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In the playoffs, the Pit Spitters first defeated the Kalamazoo Growlers 2–0 (8–1, 5–4) in a best-of-three series and then the Madison Mallards 3–2 to advance to the Northwoods League championship game. The championship game was played at Pit Spitters Park in front of 4,636 fans as Traverse City had the better overall record.