For the time being, the collective group of city officials and St. Louis Cardinals brass have abandoned the original plan to transform Ballpark Village into a commercial and residential metropolis.  To circumvent the embarrassment of a barren field due North of this year’s MLB All Star Game festivities at Busch Stadium, the aforementioned visionaries are building a softball field.  That’s right.  A. Softball.  Field.

While the solution is planned to be temporary until suitable real estate contracts are signed for Ballpark Village, make no mistake about it; softball fever is here to stay in downtown St. Louis.  When a barrage of overweight, mustached men sporting pinstriped ball pants begin making weekly voyages up Highway 55 to strut their stuff on the hallowed ground, the facades in and around Busch Stadium will become marketing gold mines.

Although the early skeleton of the Busch Stadium softball field embodies a beautiful skyline for ropes, bombs and piss rockets, we wonder what the horizon of downtown St. Louis will look like when it’s overrun by potential advertisers, marketing their products to the everyday, lavish adult softball guy.

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This photo appeared in the June edition of St. Louis Sports Magazine, where the good people of JoeSportsFan.com (Sebek, Bacott and Imig) have a monthly, four page spread.  Read the entire magazine online here.

Tags: ballpark village, Mustache, softball

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