Today’s infographic is entitled “Guns, Clydesdales, and a Kidnapping: One Big Happy Family.” It was created by Jennifer Daniel, who’s currently a visual journalist at the New York Times, but did this one when she worked for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Interesting poster, but she forgot BASEBALL! Busch family has owned the St Louis Cardinals for a long time, & all 3 parks the Cards have played in were named Busch! (NOTE: the original bamdbox park, which the Cards shared w/the Browns, was originally called Sportsmens Park until the Browns moved to Baltimore early 50’s & tbecame the Orioles & Busch became the 1st & only post-WWII owner to have the ballpark named after itself – & maybe the only one ever since Calvin Griffith built the 1st park the Senators/Nationals occupied in DC IN Walter Johnson’s day).
The obsucre one she picked up on is that Busch owned a metalworks that produced a lot of military artillery during WWII. If one has read the “unholy history” book about A-B from 10-15 yrs back, the kidnap episode is there.
beerman49 says
Interesting poster, but she forgot BASEBALL! Busch family has owned the St Louis Cardinals for a long time, & all 3 parks the Cards have played in were named Busch! (NOTE: the original bamdbox park, which the Cards shared w/the Browns, was originally called Sportsmens Park until the Browns moved to Baltimore early 50’s & tbecame the Orioles & Busch became the 1st & only post-WWII owner to have the ballpark named after itself – & maybe the only one ever since Calvin Griffith built the 1st park the Senators/Nationals occupied in DC IN Walter Johnson’s day).
The obsucre one she picked up on is that Busch owned a metalworks that produced a lot of military artillery during WWII. If one has read the “unholy history” book about A-B from 10-15 yrs back, the kidnap episode is there.