I went to the new stadium last night to see a Cardinals game. This was my first time at the new stadium, and I very much did not like it. Sure, it was pretty and open and airy and everything. But it just didn’t feel right watching a baseball game there. They showed a couple of clips of the old stadium, and that felt like where baseball was supposed to be, not this new place.
I suppose that the new place will grow on me. I’m going back in a month for another game, and maybe my opinion will improve. But I think that I’ll still come away feeling like I’d be happier at the old stadium, despite all of its faults.
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It struck me funny for you to call it the “old” stadium. I can remember attending games (not many) with your grandfather at Sportsman’s Park, which really was the “old” stadium, and marvelled at the new Edward Durrell Stone designed “new” stadium. It was a beautiful piece of architecture, and I wish the powers that be would have remodeled it rather than tearing it down. But this “Vandal Stadium” is a little less awful looking that I had supposed it would be from looking at the early drawings.
I have been to the new stadium twice now. I LOVED the stadium before, but I cannot help myself, I really enjoy going to games in our brand new stadium. It reminds me that time moves forward and so do the things around us. New memories are made wherever we go. Keep an open mind about Busch Stadium. It really is beautiful.
As much things change the more they stay the same. When my grandma had initially looked at the concept design (and my mom when they had first suggested it) they both said the same thing, why didn’t they just hold onto Sportsman park?
My mom absolutely adored Busch because it was made so that it was unique to St. Louis. Most people didn’t notice this but the arches up at the top of the park had been made so tht they echoed the Gateway arch. Now we have a generic park like so many others with nothing special to it.