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Sportsman's ParkSportsman's Park was the name of a former Major League Baseball stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. Until 1953 it was the home field of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League, after which the Browns departed to become the modern-day Baltimore Orioles. St. Louis is by far the smallest market ever to support two major-league teams in the same sport for a protracted period. Sportsman's Park was initially owned by the Browns with the Cardinals as a tenant; after the teams' respective situations reversed, both on and off the field, so did the ownership of the stadium. Sportsman's Park was the site of the particularly memorable 1964 World Series which featured brother against brother, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals versus Clete Boyer of the Yankees, and also Roger Maris facing the team with which he had set the single-season home run record only three years earlier. The Cardinals' triumph in seven games led to Yankee management replacing Yogi Berra with the Cardinals' manager Johnny Keane, an arrangement which lasted the Yankees only to early 1966. Sportsman's Park was replaced in 1966 by Busch Memorial Stadium, which is now slated for replacement in 2006 itself.
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