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Article: Ready or not . . .: New Busch Stadium isn't quite finished, but the Cards will christen their ballpark Monday.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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Byline: Michael Hirsley
Apr. 10--ST. LOUIS -- Jeremy and Maya Marsek decided that Saturday was a perfect day for a stroll in the park. The ballpark, that is. Busch Stadium's latest incarnation, so new that a giant crane and cement mixers are still poised for action near an unfinished upper-deck section off the third-base line, was open for inspection Saturday.
"It's really pretty," Maya proclaimed. As much as she loved the old enclosed Busch Stadium "and being able to see people 360 degrees around you dressed in red, a sea of red," she said, "I liked this new, more open, one right away." Although he winced at the word "pretty," Jeremy pronounced ...