[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The first game I ever saw was at Busch Stadium, and so was the last. I remember when it was built and, when I was a kid, I could walk down to the end of my street and see the city skyline and this great spot of light coming from the stadium on game nights. And then I might go in and flip on KMOX (I'm going to miss that, too!) and see how the guys were doing. It's amazing how the place provides so many vivid memories. A lot of the past is gone and forgotten, but I remember those times at Busch like they were yesterday. And not just the games, but the whole ambiance-- smelling the river when the wind was blowing the right way, or the coffee being roasted at the old Manhattan Coffee Co. I get back to St. Louis several times a year. It's going to be very different without the old ballyard.

[SCALEMAN]

amazing how the place provides so many vivid memories

My wife passed in '03. She was (like me) an avid Cardinals fan. She entered Hospice in Sept of '02. My fondest memory was the last game she could attend, a playoff game in October. I called down in advance and they set up a cart to get her from the parking lot to our seats and the ushers were so nice and kept asking if they could do anything for her. After the game, they came, helped her to the cart and took us to our car. It is a perfect memory.

[ichabod1]

Yeah, We guess we remember... the last game at Sportsman's park. In Grandpa's basement. Him drinking a Falstaff Longneck, listening on the radio, or... I think he had an old b&w TV down there. By Golly, Busch Stadium. Shining, magnificent humongous thing it was. We just went through this in Houston with the Astrodome. Kudos to the Cubs for keeping their old bandbox until it came back into style again.