World Champions

Historical marker location:

700 Clark Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on South 8th Street (Old U.S. 66) south of Spruce Street, on the right when traveling north.)

October 10, 1926. Greatest Moments

The "Show-Me State" is Missouri's official nickname and is believed to have originated from a speech given by Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver in 1899. He said, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."