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St Louis North America's
Best College Sport City
St Louis
Convention and Visitors Commission
- The old St. Louis
Arena hosted the 1973 and 1978 NCAA basketball
Final 4 and served as host for several NCAA
regional championships. The 1998 men's regional's
were held in St. Louis at Savvis Center and
returned in 1999 taking the court at The Edward
Jones Dome at America's Center.
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- The Edward Jones
Dome at America's Center holds the attendance
record for an NCAA Regional event. More than
42,400 fans jammed the Dome for each of the
tournament's 3 games that took place in St.
Louis on March 19 and 20, 1999.
- 15 baseball
Cardinals have won the National League Most
Valuable Player Award. Stan Musial was a
3-time winner.
- Lou Brock, who
retired in 1979 after sixteen seasons with the
Cardinals, held the National League record for
stolen bases in a career (938) for many years.
- Football's
greatest tight end, Hall of Famer Jackie Smith is
a resident of St. Louis. Much of his illustrious
career was spent with the Cardinals in St. Louis.
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Dan Dierdorf, a recent inductee into the Football
Hall of Fame, is also a resident of St. Louis. A former broadcaster for
the ABC television network, Dierdorf was a key player for the St. Louis
Football Cardinals.
The top drivers from the NASCAR and the NHRA
circuits make tracks each year at St. Louis' Gateway International
Raceway.
In 1900, St. Louisan Dwight Davis donated a
trophy, the Davis Cup, which is still the most prized team award in
tennis.
On November 15, 1999, the St. Louis Sports
Commission named Stan Musial and Jackie Joyner-Kersee "St. Louis Athletes
of the Century."
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The 2000 NCAA Division one Wrestling
Championships held at St. Louis' Savvis Center,
March 15-18, 2000, sold the most all-session
tickets in the sixty-nine-year history of the
event. The record-breaking attendance surpassed
the previous record set in 1997 when 90,064 people
watched the championship matches.
The St. Louis
Blues NHL hockey club was awarded the President's
Trophy for finishing with the best regular season
record (51-20-11-1) during the 1999-2000 season.
Blues' coach Joel Quenneville received the Jack
Adams "Coach of the Year" Award, becoming the
3rd coach in Blues history to win that honor.
Other Blues recipients were Coach Brian Sutter and
Red Berenson. Blues' players honored that same
season included Pavol Demitra and Chris Pronger.
Demitra brought home the Lady Byng Trophy for
sportsmanship; Pronger was named both MVP and best
defenseman in the NHL to garner the Hart and
Norris trophies.
Saint Louis
University's Billikens won the Conference USA
Men's Basketball Tournament in 2000.
The St. Louis
Swarm won the first International Basketball
League Championship in 2000.
Washington
University's women's basketball team won their
3rd straight NCAA D-III title in 2000.
Attendance records
were set and some shattered by St. Louis sports
teams and events in 2000. The St. Louis Blues
finished in the top 5 in NHL league attendance.
Saint Louis University Men's Billiken basketball
ranked in the Top twenty in average attendance among
all NCAA D-I schools. St. Louis' River City
Rascals minor league baseball team set a Frontier
League single-season attendance record and was
named "Organization of the Year." The new Missouri
River Otters minor league hockey team set a UHL
regular season attendance record by an expansion
team. The NCAA Wrestling Championships held in St.
Louis set an all-time total attendance record of
96,994. And, the John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics
Championships held at St. Louis' Savvis Center set
an all-time U.S. Gymnastics Championships ticket
sales mark. 2 evenings of that competition were
broadcast on national television and became the
2 top-rated television sports programs of the
week.
The St. Louis
Cardinals won the National League Central Division
Championship in 2000. That same season, the
Redbirds enjoyed the highest regular season
attendance figures in the National League, hosting
3.3 million fans at Busch Stadium in downtown St.
Louis. The team also drew at least three millions fans
in 1998 and 1999.
1 of the
premiere college sporting events in the national
will be held in St. Louis when the NCAA Men's
Final 4 Division I college basketball championship
comes to the Edward Jones Dome at America's Center
in 2005.
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