[Shotimes] OT outliving a stadium

[Donald Mallinson]

With Busch Stadium, it was designed as a dual purpose stadium for 
football AND baseball, and now that it is all baseball, it isn't as good 
as if it had been designed for that from the beginning.  They can build 
a complex with a smaller footprint, with almost as much capacity.  The 
trend is to duplicate those friendly close-in parks of  the beginning of 
the century, from what I read. 

When pro teams make as much money as they do, and get all the sponsor 
money (new stadium will still be sponsored by Busch beer) then tearing 
down a 50,000 seat stadium that is still in good shape (got a real 
expensive overhaul just a few years ago) isn't any big deal I guess.

Don Mallinson

James F. Ryan III wrote:

>1966, and it's being replaced???  I don't get it.