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…

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…

souvenir program from the 1944 World Series

The 1944 World Series was the first played entirely west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis,…