SoSG Road Trip: St. Louis (Part 3: Inside Busch Stadium, Before Everyone Else)

By this time, having hung out for about a half-hour on the field, we were advised by Jim Pool (our Cardinals staff friend) that the teams wouldn't start coming out for batting practice for another 30 minutes. So we decided to do a lap around Busch Stadium now, instead of just waiting there. The aisle-seat detail was pretty cool. Back into the tunnels we went, emerging behind third base in the field level concourse. The concourse was kind of dark, but that's probably because they hadn't turned on all the lights for the crowd just yet. Build Your Own Fredbird workshop was closed. I couldn't help myself; I had to go up to the fence and take pictures of the fans waiting to get into Busch Stadium. This included taking a picture of a Dodgers fan that we met sitting on a park bench as we walked to Busch Stadium. He was cracking up to find us inside the Stadium already, and he waved to us. The dark, abandoned concourse. Kind of eerie. More Cardinals fans ...