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 1893 until mid-season 1920. MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... The St. ... This article refers to the American baseball league. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

The ballpark was originally called New Sportsman's Park. It was located at the corner of Natural Bridge Avenue and Vandeventer Avenue, just a few blocks to the northwest of the "Old" Sportsman's Park at Grand and Dodier, which would ultimately outlive the "New" version by several decades. Sportsmans Park was the name of a former Major League Baseball park in St. ...

The stadium sat 14,500 in 1898, 15,200 in 1899 and 21,000 in 1909. An amusement park once stood at the edge of left field, as had been the case at the "Old" park. In mid-season 1920 the Cardinals abandoned this ballpark and moved back to Sportsman's Park, which by then was owned by the American League version of the Browns. 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Sportsmans Park was the name of a former Major League Baseball park in St. ... The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...

The ballpark became simply League Park under new club owners Frank and Emmet Stanley Robison in 1899, a name it bore through 1910.

At that time the team was still called the "Browns", as they had been during their heyday in the then-major American Association. Some sources say the team acquired the nickname "Perfectos" in 1899. It was around that time that the team abandoned the brown motif and switched to Cardinal red. Thus, a new and lasting nickname was born. The American Association has been the name of at least two leagues of professional United States of America. ...

The name of the ballpark was changed to Robison Field by Helene Hatheway Britton, as a memorial to her father Frank and uncle Stanley Robison, when she inherited the team and park from her uncle Stanley on his death in 1911. Brothers Frank and Stanley Robison, also owners of the Cleveland National League club in 1899, acquired the St Louis Browns before the 1899 season. They stripped Cleveland of its best players and sent them to St. Louis. If this made the St. Louis club the "Perfectos", it also unfortuantely made the Cleveland club the "Wanderers", as they became known when they were forced to play most of that season (their last) on the road. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

During its last 2 or 3 seasons, after the Robison family was no longer associated with the team, the park was often called simply Cardinal Field. Beaumont High School was built on the site, opening in 1926, which coincidentally was the year of the Cardinals first modern league and World Series championship.

One source: Green Cathedrals, by Phil Lowry.

Distances

• Left Field: 470 ft. (1893), 380 ft. (1909)
• Left-Center Field: 520 ft. (1893), 400 ft. (1909)
• Center Field: 500 ft. (1893), 435 ft. (1909)
• Right-Center Field: 330 ft. (1893), 320 ft. (1909)
• Right Field: 290 ft. (1893)