Baseball came to St.
The first fully professional game of baseball held i.
The Browns and Reds played their home games at separate parks, the Grand Avenue Grounds and Red Stockings Park.
Louis teams in 1875, the Brown Stockings and the Red Stockings.
Local amateur teams proliferated, and interest in forming a team of professionals resulted in two such St.
It was a gentleman\'s game, a simple summer pastime, and its popularity grew as the city evolved.
Louis before the dawn of the major leagues.
Baseball came to St