St. Louis Plays Host to “World’s Tiniest Parade”

It’s been nearly 65 years since Bill Veeck sent the pint-sized Eddie Gaedel to the plate to pinch-hit for Frank Saucier, but on Monday, the 3’7” baseball player once again took center stage in the Gateway City.

Enter Tiny Bar…a 250-square-foot establishment smack dab in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Opened just two weeks, the folks from Tiny Bar held the “world’s tiniest parade” Monday to celebrate the birthday of the man they refer to as the bar’s “patron saint”. Gaedel would have been 90.

Led by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, the 1/8^th-block parade featured a Smart car, a child-sized float, a toy dog, a one-man band and, naturally, the world’s smallest horse. When it was all said and done, the parade lasted less than ten minutes.