Saint Louis Brown Stockings Vintage Base Ball Club

NEXT EVENT: 'Alton Giant BBC' on Sat 09/23/2017 at 11:00 AM (see Schedule for details)

4th Annual St. Louis Cup The 4th Annual Saint Louis Cup will be held on Saturday, July 29, 2017 in beautiful and historic St. Louis Forest Park. Fourteen teams from St. Louis-MO, Alton-IL, Belleville-IL, Breese-IL, Danville-IL, Decatur-IL, Murphysboro-IL, Vandalia-IL, Northern Illinois and Cincinatti Ohio will take to 4 fields to play 20 matches of vintage base ball. Matches start at 9:00 am and finish at 4:15 pm.

The matches will be played using some of the existing rules of 1860 base ball.

St. Louis' Forest Park hosted the 1904 World's Fair. It is home to the St. Louis Zoo, the History Museum, the Art Museum and the Muny Opera, as well as many other attractions, including a 27-hole public golf course.

2017 Schedule - Saint Louis Cup
Saturday, July 29 in Forest Park, St. Louis MO
	Lindell Field	Cricket Field West	Cricket Field East	Langenberg Field East
9:00 am	Murphysboro Clarkes vs DuPage Plowboys Arbiter: Ed "Buffalo" Nickels	Lafayette Cylcone vs Breese Farmers Arbiter: Frank “Peg Leg” Frederick	Belleville Stags vs Vandalia Old Capitals Arbiter:	Perfectos vs Alton Giant Arbiter: Allen “Honest Al” Stare
10:30 am	Brown Stockings vs Vermillion Voles Arbiter: Ed "Buffalo" Nickels	Unions vs Murphysboro Clarkes Arbiter:	Cincinatti Blackbottom 9 vs Springfield Long Nine Arbiter:	DuPage Plowboys vs Ground Squirrels Arbiter: Jonathan “Charlie Brown” Farris
11:45 am	LUNCH
12:30 pm	Perfectos vs Vandalia Old Capitals	Lafayette Cyclone vs Vermillion Voles Arbiter:	Breese Farmers vs Ground Squirrels Arbiter: Allen “Honest Al” Stare	Belleville Stags vs Alton Giant Arbiter: Frank “Peg Leg” Frederick
2:00 pm	Brown Stockings vs Springfield Long Nine Arbiter:	Unions vs Cincinatti Blackbottom 9 Arbiter:	Perfectos vs Murphysboro Clarkes Arbiter:	DuPage Plowboys vs Lafayette Cyclone Arbiter: Jonathan “Charlie Brown” Farris
3:30 pm	Breese Farmers vs Alton Giant Arbiter:	Cincinatti Blackbottom 9 vs Vandalia Old Capitals Arbiter:	Belleville Stags vs Ground Squirrels Arbiter: Frank “Peg Leg” Frederick	Vermillion Voles vs Springfield Long Nine Arbiter: Allen “Honest Al” Stare

Below is a map of Forest Park (courtesy of Forest Park Forever). The 4 fields we are using for the base ball matches are marked with a large, red "X". Click the map to open a larger version. We've also embedded a Google map below the Forest Park map.
We recommend parking on Grand Drive or in the "Twin Lots" parking lots just South of Grand Drive, just to the West of Cricket Field (left of the field on the map). Parking in this part of the park is free.

"For the Glory of the Game - Huzzah!"