Editing Busch Memorial Stadium (section)

===Baseball===
[[Image:LouBrockstealing.jpg|245px|thumb|[[Lou Brock]] [[Stolen base|stealing]] second base against the [[1975 Atlanta Braves season|Braves]] in August [[1975 St. Louis Cardinals season|1975]]<ref name=nlbxs>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qO0pAAAAIBAJ&pg=7301%2C5672929 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |agency=Associated Press |title=NL box scores |date=August 25, 1975 |page=2, part 2 }}</ref>]]
In its opening year, Busch Stadium hosted the [[1966 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]], a 2–1 [[National League (baseball)|National League]] victory in 10 innings, mostly remembered for the humidity and {{convert|105|F}} temperatures. The stadium hosted [[World Series]] games in six different seasons: {{wsy|1967}}, {{wsy|1968}}, {{wsy|1982}}, {{wsy|1985}}, {{wsy|1987}}, and {{wsy|2004}}. The Cardinals won the World Series in [[1967 St. Louis Cardinals season|1967]] and [[1982 St. Louis Cardinals season|1982]] while playing in the stadium (the seventh game of the 1982 Series was won at Busch). The 1968 and 2004 World Series were clinched in Busch Stadium by visitors: the [[1968 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]] in the seventh game and the [[2004 Boston Red Sox season|Boston Red Sox]] in a four-game sweep, respectively.

The stadium was also the site of [[Mark McGwire]]'s historic 62nd home run of the [[1998 St. Louis Cardinals season|1998 season]] that broke [[Roger Maris]]' single-season record, and also of McGwire's 70th of that season, for a record which lasted until [[Barry Bonds]] surpassed it in 2001. The dimensions in the center and the power alleys had been altered from time to time over the years. Initially, the park was very favorable to pitchers, with spacious outfield dimensions. Consequently, its design (as well as the Astroturf surface) was favorable to the Cardinals' style of play for most of the time from the 1960s through the 1990s, which emphasized good baserunning and extra-base hits. Later changes attempted to make the outfield better balanced between pitching and power hitting.<ref name="Storied"/>

Before the 1996 season, the stadium was retrofitted to become a baseball-only stadium. Part of the top deck in center field was permanently closed, and in 1997, flags were put in place to honor the team's retired numbers and pennants.<ref name=cibst>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eA4pAAAAIBAJ&pg=3614%2C2631439 |newspaper=Southeast Missourian |location=Cape Girardeau |agency=Associated Press |title=Cards inject Busch Stadium with the second dose of tradition |date=December 13, 1996 |page=3B }}</ref> Even before then, the stadium had come under less scorn from baseball purists than other cookie-cutter stadiums built during the same era, partly because the "crown of arches" gave it a more traditional look than its cousins and partially because it was alone amongst cookie-cutters in having field-level outfield seating.<ref name="Storied"/>

The baseball diamond was oriented [[Points of the compass#32 cardinal points|southeast by east]] (home to center field); the new stadium is aligned east-northeast, the recommended orientation by MLB.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Baseball Rules, 2021 Edition |url=https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/mlb/atcjzj9j7wrgvsm8wnjq.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108025619/https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/mlb/atcjzj9j7wrgvsm8wnjq.pdf |archive-date=November 8, 2022 |access-date=December 4, 2022 |website=mlb.com}}</ref>