Home Of: St. Louis Cardinals

Founded: April 4, 2006

Location: 700 Clark Street, St. Louis Missouri

Capacity: 46,861

Owner: St. Louis Cardinals

Baseball betting fans have come to love watching games at Busch Stadium since it was created in 2006. Similar to the Yankees in 2009, Cardinals fans betting online for the team to win a World Series in Busch Stadium’s inaugural year, were big winners as the team won and defeated the Detroit Tigers in five games that season.

On April 10, 2006, Mark Mulder was the opening day starter for the first ever game at Busch Stadium III. That day, the Cardinals on the backs of Mulder and future hall of fame first baseman Albert Pujols, were able to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers six to four.

The current Busch Stadium is the latest ball park in St. Louis to hold the Busch name since 1953, as it has succeeded two previous Busch Stadiums, which were also used for football. Although the Cardinals played at Busch Stadium II for 39 years from 1966 to 2005, planning for the new Busch Stadium has been in the works since 1995. However, the funding for a new stadium took some time, and the current edition of Busch, was not built until 2004.

Busch Stadium III was built through the collaboration of three different groups, Populous Architect Company, Bliss and Nyitray Inc engineers and the Hunter Construction Group as the main contractors. The total cost to build the new Busch Stadium was $365 Million.

Historical Moments at Busch Stadium III:

In 2006, as noted earlier the Cardinals made it all the way to the World Series final. The Cards won all three games at Busch Stadium, before defeating the Tigers in Detroit to win the World Series.

Similar to the Rocky statue outside the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, new Busch Stadium has a statue of Stan Musial. When the Cards won the first three games of the 2006 World Series, many fans climbed atop the statue of Stan “The man” Musial.

In 2009, Busch Stadium was the host of the All Star game but also the home of the series clinching win for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as they defeated the Cards in four games.