the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Pippin Place. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Jr. Postcard Collection, R1551]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-08/1.-pippin-place.jpg?h=e4d128fe&itok=_doFS-wE "Pippin Place. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Jr. Postcard Collection, R1551]")
Pippin Place was a legendary Gasconade River resort in the Missouri Ozarks. With the spread of railroads…
![George Sisler. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-11451]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-George-Sisler.jpg?h=abb6705f&itok=5s4__7Ug "George Sisler. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-11451]")
George Sisler ranks among baseball’s all-time finest hitters. His longtime manager and…
![St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?h=2409fecb&itok=zmo6EN3t "St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]")
The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League…
![Stony Dell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Postcard Collection, R1551]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-03/1.-stony-dell.jpg?h=46c2bdcb&itok=mUWj6J7A "Stony Dell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Postcard Collection, R1551]")
Stony Dell, fourteen miles west of Rolla, was one of the central Missouri Ozarks’ premier tourist…
![Chris Von der Ahe. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45223]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Chris-Von-der-Ahe.jpg?h=8913bb03&itok=-t0p8nOg "Chris Von der Ahe. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45223]")
Christian Frederick Wilhelm Von der Ahe, a pioneering figure in early professional baseball…
The 1944 World Series was the first played entirely west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis,…