TeamSt. Louis Stars
LocationSt. Louis, Missouri
Closed1931
Capacity10,000
About Stars Park
The home of the St. Louis Stars during the Negro National League I era (1922–1931). Stars Park featured one of the most asymmetric outfields in baseball history — a streetcar barn behind left field created a 250-foot wall just 269 feet from home plate, making the park a hitter's paradise. The 1928 Stars — with Cool Papa Bell, Mule Suttles, and Willie Wells — are sometimes ranked alongside the 1935 Crawfords as one of the greatest Negro League teams ever. The site is now occupied by Harris-Stowe State University.
Fun facts
- The left-field wall was just 269 feet from home plate — a streetcar barn behind the fence created a 30-foot-high wall.
- Mule Suttles routinely hit balls over the left-field barn and onto the streetcar tracks.
- Cool Papa Bell — said to be "so fast he could turn off the light and be in bed before the room got dark" — began his career here.
- Site now occupied by Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU.
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