Opening Day Slam

Historical marker location:

700 Clark Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on South Broadway south of Spruce Street, on the right when traveling south.)

March 31, 1998. Greatest Moments

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.