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Bob
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Ray Lankford | Ken Reitz | Jack Clark | Darrell
Porter | Pedro Guerrero |
Tony Pena | Jose Oquendo | Brian Jordan | Gary
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Vince Coleman |
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Where
they finished (since 1964)
Yr. |
Finish |
W |
L |
Attendance |
Manager |
1964 |
1 |
93
+ |
69 |
1,143,294 |
Johnny Keane |
1965 |
7 |
80 |
81 |
1,241,195 |
Red Schoendienst |
1966 |
6 |
83 |
79 |
1,712,980 |
Red Schoendienst |
1967 |
1 |
101
* |
60 |
2,090,145 |
Red Schoendienst |
1968 |
1 |
97
+ |
65 |
2,011,177 |
Red Schoendienst |
1969 |
4 |
87 |
75 |
1,682,583 |
Red Schoendienst |
1970
|
4 |
76 |
86 |
1,628,729 |
Red Schoendienst |
1971 |
2 |
90 |
71 |
1,604,671 |
Red Schoendienst |
1972 |
4 |
75 |
81 |
1,196,894 |
Red Schoendienst |
1973 |
2 |
81 |
81 |
1,574012 |
Red Schoendienst |
1974 |
2 |
86 |
75 |
1,838,413 |
Red Schoendienst |
1975 |
3T |
82 |
80 |
1,695,394 |
Red Schoendienst |
1976 |
5 |
72 |
90 |
1,207,036 |
Red Schoendienst |
1977 |
3 |
83 |
79 |
1,659,287 |
Vern Rapp |
1978 |
5 |
69 |
93 |
1,278,215 |
Vern Rapp, Jack Krol, Ken Boyer |
1979 |
3 |
86 |
76 |
1,627,256 |
Ken Boyer |
1980 |
4 |
74 |
88 |
1,385,147 |
Ken Boyer, Jack Krol,Whitey
Herzog, Red Schoendienst |
1981 |
1T |
59 |
43 |
1,010,247 |
Whitey Herzog |
1982 |
1 |
92
+ |
70 |
2,111,906 |
Whitey Herzog |
1983 |
4 |
79 |
83 |
2,317,914 |
Whitey Herzog |
1984 |
3 |
84 |
78 |
2,037,448 |
Whitey Herzog |
1985 |
1 |
101
* |
61 |
2,637563 |
Whitey Herzog |
1986 |
3 |
79 |
82 |
2,471,817 |
Whitey Herzog |
1987 |
1 |
95
+ |
67 |
3,072,121 |
Whitey Herzog |
1988 |
5 |
76 |
86 |
2,892,629 |
Whitey Herzog |
1989 |
3 |
86 |
76 |
3,080,980 |
Whitey Herzog |
1990 |
6 |
70 |
92 |
2,573,225 |
Whitey Herzog, Red Schoendienst,
Joe Torre |
1991 |
2 |
84 |
78 |
2,448,699 |
Joe Torre |
1992 |
3 |
83 |
79 |
2,418,483 |
Joe Torre |
1993 |
3 |
87 |
75 |
2,844,328 |
Joe Torre |
1994 |
3 |
53 |
61 |
1,866,544 |
Joe Torre |
1995 |
4 |
62 |
81 |
1,756,127 |
Joe Torre, Mike Jorgensen |
1996 |
1 |
88 |
74 |
2,654,718 |
Tony LaRussa |
1997 |
4 |
73 |
89 |
2,658,357 |
Tony LaRussa |
1998 |
3 |
83 |
79 |
3,194,092 |
Tony LaRussa |
1999 |
5 |
75 |
86 |
3,230,356 |
Tony LaRussa |
2000 |
1 |
95 |
67 |
3,336,493 |
Tony LaRussa |
2001 |
1T |
93
+ |
69 |
3,020,046 |
Tony LaRussa |
2002 |
1 |
97
|
65 |
3,011,216 |
Tony LaRussa |
2003 |
3 |
85 |
77 |
2,910,386 |
Tony LaRussa |
2004 |
1 |
105 * |
57 |
3,048,427 |
Tony LaRussa |
2005 |
1 |
100 * |
62 |
3,537,713 |
Tony LaRussa |
2006 |
1 |
83 |
78 |
3,407,104 |
Tony LaRussa |
2007 |
3 |
78 |
84 |
3,551,778 |
Tony LaRussa |
2008 |
4 |
86 |
76 |
3,432,917 |
Tony LaRussa |
2009 |
1 |
91 |
71 |
3,343,252 |
Tony LaRussa |
2010 |
2 |
86 |
76 |
3,301,218 |
Tony LaRussa |
2011 |
2 |
90 |
72 |
3,092,954 |
Tony LaRussa |
2012 |
2 |
88 |
74 |
3,262,109 |
Mike
Matheny |
2013 |
1 |
97 *(t) |
65 |
3,369,769 |
Mike
Matheny |
2014 |
1 |
90 |
72 |
3,540,649 |
Mike
Matheny |
2015 |
1 |
100 * |
62 |
3,520,889 |
Mike
Matheny |
2016 |
2 |
86 |
76 |
3,444,490 |
Mike
Matheny |
2017 |
3 |
83 |
79 |
3,447,937 |
Mike
Matheny |
2018 |
3 |
88 |
74 |
3,403,587 |
Mike
Matheny, Mike Schildt |
2019 |
1 |
91 |
71 |
3,480,393 |
Mike Schildt |
2020 |
2T |
30 |
28 |
*Covid year |
Mike Schildt |
* Best record in
baseball!
+ Best record in the NL!
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Cardinal's
Retired Numbers
Retired number -
player Biographies
We'll
miss you DK!
Farewell,
Jack...
32
-
Josh Hancock
18
-
Oscar
Taveras
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Cardinals in the "Hall"
Cardinals
team info. (Hall of Fame)
Players |
Year Inducted |
Position |
Years with Cards |
Walter Alston |
1983 |
1B |
1936 |
Jake Beckley |
1971 |
1B |
1904-07 |
Jim Bottomley |
1974 |
1B |
1922-32 |
Roger Bresnahan |
1945 |
C |
1909-12 |
Lou Brock |
1985 |
LF |
1964-79 |
Jesse Burkett |
1948 |
LF |
1899-1901 |
Orlando Cepeda |
1999 |
1B |
1966-68 |
Roger Connor |
1976 |
1B |
1894-97 |
Frank Frisch |
1947 |
2B |
1927-37 |
Chick Hafey |
1971 |
LF |
1924-31 |
Rogers Hornsby |
1942 |
2B |
1915-26,33 |
Miller Huggins |
1964 |
2B |
1910-16 |
Rabbitt Maranville |
1954 |
SS |
1927-28 |
John McGraw |
1937 |
3B |
1900 |
Joe "Ducky"
Medwick |
1968 |
LF |
1932-40,47-48 |
John Mize |
1981 |
1B |
1936-41 |
Stan Musial |
1969 |
LF |
1941-44,46-63 |
Wilbert Robinson |
1945 |
C |
1900 |
Albert "Red"
Schoendienst |
1989 |
2B |
1945-56,61-63 |
Ted Simmons |
2020 |
Catcher |
1968-1980 |
Ozzie Smith |
2002 |
SS |
1982-1996 |
Enos Slaughter |
1985 |
RF |
1938-42,46-53 |
Larry Walker |
2020 |
OF |
2004-2005 |
Bobby Wallace |
1953 |
SS |
1899-1901,17-18 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pitchers |
Year Inducted |
Career Wins |
Years with Cards |
Grover Cleveland
Alexander |
1938 |
373 |
1926-29 |
Mordecai Brown |
1949 |
239 |
1903 |
Steve Carlton |
1994 |
329 |
1965-71 |
Jerome "Dizzy"
Dean |
1953 |
150 |
1930,32-37 |
James "Pud"
Galvin |
1965 |
361 |
1892 |
Bob Gibson |
1981 |
251 |
1959-75 |
Burleigh Grimes |
1964 |
270 |
1930-31,33-34 |
Jesse Haines |
1970 |
210 |
1920-37 |
Charles "Kid"
Nichols |
1949 |
361 |
1904-05 |
Arthur "Dazzy"
Vance |
1955 |
197 |
1933-34 |
Hoyt Wilhelm |
1985 |
143 |
1957 |
Denton "Cy"
Young |
1937 |
511 |
1899-1900 |
Dennis Eckersley |
2004 |
197
(wins)/390 (saves) |
1996-1997 |
Lee Smith |
2019 |
71 (wins)/478
(saves) |
1990-1993 |
John Smoltz |
2015 |
213 |
2009 |
Bruce Sutter |
2006 |
68
(wins)/300 (saves) |
1980-1984 |
|
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|
|
|
|
Managers |
Year Inducted |
Cardinal Wins |
Years with Cards |
Roger Bresnahan |
1945 |
255 |
1909-12 |
Roger Connor |
1976 |
9 |
1896 |
Frank Frisch |
1947 |
457 |
1933-38 |
Rogers Hornsby |
1942 |
153 |
1925-26 |
Miller Huggins |
1964 |
346 |
1913-17 |
Bill McKechnie |
1962 |
128 |
1928-29 |
Charles "Kid"
Nichols |
1949 |
94 |
1904-05 |
Branch Rickey |
1967 |
458 |
1919-25 |
Albert "Red"
Schoendienst |
1989 |
1042 |
1965-76,80,90 |
Billy Southworth |
2008 |
620 |
1929,40-45 |
Whitey Herzog |
2010 |
822 |
1980-1990 |
Joe Torre |
2014 |
351 |
1990-1995 |
Tony LaRussa |
2014 |
1408 |
1996-2011 |
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NL Strikeout Leaders
Year |
Player |
Strike Outs |
1906 |
Fred Beebe |
171 |
1930 |
Bill Hallahan |
177 |
1931 |
Bill Hallahan |
159 |
1932 |
Dizzy Dean |
191 |
1933 |
Dizzy Dean |
199 |
1934 |
Dizzy Dean |
195 |
1935 |
Dizzy Dean
|
182 |
1948 |
Harry Brecheen |
149 |
1958 |
Sam Jones |
225 |
1966 |
Bob Gibson |
268 |
1989 |
Jose DeLeon |
201 |
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NL ERA Leaders
Year |
Player |
Games |
Innings Pitched |
ERA |
1914 |
Bill Doak |
36 |
256 |
1.72 |
1921 |
Bill Doak |
32 |
209 |
2.58 |
1942 |
Mort Cooper |
37 |
279 |
1.77 |
1943 |
Howie Pollet |
16 |
118 |
1.75 |
1946 |
Howie Pollet |
40 |
226 |
2.10 |
1948 |
Harry Brecheen |
33 |
233 |
2.24 |
1968 |
Bob Gibson |
34 |
305 |
1.12 |
1976 |
John Denny |
30 |
207 |
2.52 |
1988 |
Joe Magrane |
24 |
165 |
2.18 |
2009 |
Chris
Carpenter |
28 |
192.2 |
2.24 |
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Cardinal No-Hitters
Pitcher |
Opponent |
Score |
Date |
Jessie Haines |
Boston |
5-0 |
7/17/24 |
Paul Dean |
Brooklyn |
3-0 |
9/21/34 |
Lon Warneke |
at Cincinnati |
2-0 |
8/30/41 |
Ray Washburn |
at San Francisco |
2-0 |
9/18/68 |
Bob Gibson |
at Pittsburgh |
11-0 |
8/14/71 |
Bob Forsch |
Philadelphia |
5-0 |
4/16/78 |
Bob Forsch |
Montreal |
3-0 |
9/26/83 |
Jose Jiminez |
at Arizona |
1-0 |
6/25/99 |
Bud Smith |
at San Diego |
4-0 |
9/3/01 |
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They said it...Fun
Facts...
"The way to catch a
knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up." -- Bob Uecker
"Baseball has been very good
to me since I quit trying to play it." -- Whitey Herzog
"Tradition here in St. Louis
is Stan Musial coming in the clubhouse and making the rounds. Tradition in San Diego
is Nate Colbert coming into the clubhouse and trying to sell you a used car." -- Bob
Shirley
"He has an upper body like
Charles Atlas and a lower body like Lana Turner." -- Whitey Herzog talking about
Pedro Guerrero
"It has options through the
year 2020 -- or until the last Rocky movie is made." Reliever Dan Quisenberry,
describing his 1990 contract with the Cardinals
"Stan Musial could have hit
.300 with a fountain pen." -- Joe Garagiola
"How
good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away." --
Vin Scully
"I throw him four wide
ones then try to pick him off first base." -- Dodgers pitcher,
Preacher Roe, on his approach to pitching to Stan Musial
Stan Musial leads the
Cardinals with 12 walk-off home runs.
Stan Musial led the NL in;
batting average 7 times, slugging 6 times, hits 6 times, doubles 8 times, triples 5 times,
runs 5 times, RBIs 2 times.
Stan
Musial played in the All-Star game 24 times in his career, tied for the most
ever with Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
Stan
Musial's 3,630 career base hits.... 1815 came at home, 1815 were on the
road...
Stan
Musial (3,026) and Lou Brock (2,289) are the only two players to have played
in 2,000 or more games with the Cardinals.
Stan
Musial was the first National League player to win three Baseball Writers MVP
awards.
Stan
Musial was the first Cardinal to have his uniform number retired. (#6 in
1963)
Stan
Musial was given the Lone Sailor Award by the US Navy Memorial in
2007.
Stan
Musial played himself in a 1970 episode of "That Girl." (Season 5,
Episode 7)
Stan Musial was the
first Cardinal to win the Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year Award.
(1957)
On September 29th, 1952, Stan
"The Man" Musial makes his only pitching appearance. He has his 6th
batting title wrapped up (he will finish at .336) and asks to pitch to the runner-up, Cubs
outfielder Frankie Baumholtz. Baumholtz reaches base on an error, and Harvey Haddix
relieves Musial.
Stan "The Man" hit 475
career home runs, but never once won a home run title. He also led NL
outfielders in fielding percentage three times: once each in the 40s, 50s, and
60s.
For a season of complete hitting
dominance, it's hard to top Stan "The Man" Musial's 1948 campaign. Stan
led his league in average (.376), slugging (.702), on-base percentage (.450), hits (230),
doubles (46), triples (18), runs (135), and RBIs (131). The only thing he didn't
lead in was homers, as his 39 were one short of the 40 that led the league.
He also had four 5-hit games! Not
surprisingly, Musial won that year's MVP award going away.
In 1963, his 22nd and
final season, Stan Musial passed a few milestones. Early in the season,
he collected his 1357th extra-base hit, passing Babe Ruth for the all-time
lead (to that point). In July, he played in his 24th All-Star
Game. And on September 12th, he hit a home run in this first at-bat as a
grandfather. He finished the year hitting .255 with 12 homers and 58RBIs
in 337 at-bats.
Stan
"The Man" Musial holds the club record for the most grand slams. (9)
Al Hrabosky was cut from his
Little League team three years in a row and two consecutive years from his junior high
school team.
"One paragraph on
obstruction and I'm asleep." -- Whitey Herzog
Keith Hernandez was the
42nd-round pick in 1971, the 783rd player selected in the draft. The team's
first-round choice that year also was a first baseman, Ed Kurpiel.
For most players, one game in
which they get five hits is the highlight of their careers. In the 1948 season
alone, Stan Musial did it four times.
"The difference between
playing at home and on the road is that on the road, you can't go down to the kitchen to
get a cup of coffee in the morning in your underwear." -- Andy VanSlyke
When former Cardinals
pitcher John Denny posted a NL-best 2.52 ERA mark in 1976, he tied for the
youngest ever to win an ERA crown. He was 23.
Vic Davalillo set a
National League record (since surpassed) with 24 pitch-hits in
1970.
Davalillo's manager was Red Schoendienst, holder of the old NL record of 22.
Specs Toporcer, a shortstop for
the Cards, was the first non-pitcher to wear glasses. On June 12th 1922, Specs hit
his first big league homer, but was called out when he passed a base runner.
After the Yankees, which have 22
World Series titles, the winningest teams are the As and the Cardinals, with nine apiece.
Five teams in baseball history
have managed 300 stolen bases in a season. The only ones in the past 80 years:
The 1976 As with 341 and the 1985 Cards with 314.
An aggressive slide in Game 7 of
the World Series by Joe Medwick results in a set-to with third baseman Marv Owen.
When Medwick returns to his outfield post, angry Tigers fans pelt him with fruit.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis makes Medwick leave the game "for his own
safety." The Cards go on to an 11-0 win to clinch the Series.
In 1924, Rogers Hornsby goes
2-for-5 on opening day against the Cubs. He will remarkably end up improving on the
.400 clip during the rest of the season and will wind up the year hitting .424.
In a two month stretch between June 28 and August 28, he went an astonishing
149-for-302 (.489) at the plate.
In each of his first 10 full
Major League seasons (1916-1925), Rogers Hornsby led the Cardinals in batting, slugging,
and on-base percentage. He repeated the feat with the 1927 Giants, 1928 Braves, and
1929 Cubs.
In 1906, Jack Taylor threw the
last of his 187 consecutive complete games. He had not required bullpen help since
June 13th, 1901.
Harvey
Haddix was the only Cardinals pitcher to have a 20 win season in the 1950s.
George
Hendrick hit the most HRs (89) for the Cardinals in the 1980s.
"We could finish first or in
an asylum." - Frank Frisch, manager of the wild and talented "Gas House
Gang" Cardinals, on the team's prospects for 1936
"Hoo-ee! I been
to two county fairs and a goat roast, and I ain't never seen nothin' like
this." -- World Series MVP Darrell Porter, amid the celebration in
1982.
Boastful bumpkin Dizzy
Dean hurls a three-hit shutout (9/21/1934) against the Dodgers in the first
game of a doubleheader. Brother Paul Dean, a rookie, then completes the
sweep with a no-hitter. "If'n Paul had told me he was gonna pitch a
no-hitter," Dizzy says, "I'd of throwed one too."
"The
good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and
a weak mind." - Dizzy Dean
The Dean brothers
combined for all four Cardinals victories in the 1934 World Series.
On July 26th, 1900, Gus Weyhing
is released by the Cards. He claims to have been cheated out of ten days pay and
persuades a sheriff to seize the St. Louis share of gate revenues for a game at
Brooklyn. The money winds up being less than the $100 Weyhing claims he's entitled
to.
Under
Branch Rickey's direction, the Cardinals were one of the first teams to
experiment with uniform numbers, adopting them briefly and then abandoning
them in the mid-1920s.
On July 12th, 1931,
45,715 fans are admitted to Sportsman's Park (seating capacity: 34,000) for a
Cards-Cubs doubleheader. The extra bodies are corralled in the outfield,
with any hits into the throng counting as ground-rule doubles.
Thirty-two doubles are hit in the twin bill, 23 of them in game two, won by
the Cards, 17-13.
Curt
Flood won seven Gold Glove Awards in his last seven years with the team.
(first was in 1963) He was also the first Cardinals outfielder
to ever win a Gold Glove.
Curt
Flood was the only Cardinals player to lead the league in hits in the 1960s.
Robinson Field, the park where the Cardinals played from 1893-1920, featured a
wooden roller coaster encircling the outfield.
Geronimo Pena was the last Cardinals player to hit home runs from both sides
of the plate in a single game. (4/17/1994)
Marty
Marion is the only Cardinal shortstop to win a NL MVP (1944).
Larry
Walker is the only (modern era) Canadian-born player ever to win a ML batting title.
During
his 15 years in St. Louis, Ozzie Smith led all NL shortstops in assists five
times, double plays four times, and fielding percentage seven times.
Hall of
Famers, Bob Gibson and Stan Musial spent their entire careers with the
Cardinals.
From
1957, the first year for the Gold Gloves, to 2003, the Cardinals have claimed
64 awards, more than any other franchise!
The
Cardinals retired uniform number 85 in honor of longtime owner August Busch.
The number corresponds with Busch's age when the franchise bestowed the honor
on him in 1984.
The
"birds on the bat" logo was first worn on the Cardinals jersey in 1922.
Pitcher
Bob Tewksbury won the most games (66) for the Cards in the 1990s.
Pitcher
Donovan Osborne struck out the most batters (535) for the Cards in the 1990s.
The
Cards play their first night game on July 31st, defeating the Reds 4-3 in ten
innings. (This was also the first-ever extra-inning night game.)
Cardinals 3rd baseman, Ken Boyer, had an uncredited guest appearance in the
1960s movie The Odd Couple.
As of
2009, the Cardinals were the last team to steal at least 300 bases in a
season. (1985)
At
the 1963 MLB All-Star game in Cleveland, the NL starting infield was all
Cardinals; Bill White (1B), Julian Javier (2B), Ken Boyer (3B), and Dick
Groat (SS). The NL won the game, 5-3.
Jack
Clark hit more HRs off of Don Robinson than any other pitcher.
The Cardinals became the
first team in NL history to reach 100 victories three seasons in a row.
(1942-1944)
The Cardinals have MVP
award winners three years in a row from 1942 to 1944. Mort Cooper,
Marty Marion, Stan Musial.
Cardinal 3rd baseman Ken
Reitz was nicknamed "The Zamboni Machine."
Cardinal reliever Al
Hrabosky was nicknamed "The Mad Hungarian."
The 1926 World Series
champion Cardinal team featured 6 future Hall of Famers. (Jim
Bottemley, Rogers Hornsby, Billy Southworth, Chick Hafey, Jesse Haines and
Grover Cleveland Alexander)
Only three Cardinals
pitchers have had a game in which they pitched a shutout, struck out at
least 10 hitters, and allowed one hit or less.
Bob Gibson (1970 &
71),
Ernie Broglio (1960) and Chris Carpenter (2009)
Lonnie Smith has played
in the World Series for 4 different clubs over his 17 year career. He
led the NL in runs for the Cards in 1982.
Twenty-three Cardinals
served in the military during WW II, including Stan Musial and Enos
Slaughter.
From 1963 through 1980
(18 seasons) either Tim McCarver or Ted
Simmons started every Opening day game at catcher for the Cardinals
except for 1970, when Joe Torre was the Opening Day catcher.
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Greatest Game ever??
Maybe one of the greatest regular season
games (at least for shear excitement) I can remember the Cardinals playing was played on
June 23rd, 1984 against the Chicago Cubs. This was a NBC "Game of the
Week" and Bob Costas was the play-by-play announcer.
This was an amazing game from the start
and many have called it one of the greatest games ever played! Even though the Cards
eventually lost 12-11 in eleven innings, I too think it was a great game. Here are
the some of the many highlights:
- The Cards go up 7-1 off of Steve Trout
and then take a 9-3 lead towards the middle innings.
- Apparently there was some
controversy early in the game between Whitey Herzog and the home plate umpire, Doug
Harvey. (It may have had something to do with Herzog wanting some balks called.)
- Willie McGee had 6 RBIs and hit
for the cycle.
- Ozzie Smith put on a defensive
show up the middle early in the game.
- Ryne Sandburg goes 5 for 6 with
7 RBIs and 2HRs.
- Due to an injury, the Cubs only
have 24 players available.
- The Cards give the Cubs 9 walks
and 1HBP.
- Sandburg ties the game with his
first home run of the game in the bottom of the 9th, 9-9, off of Bruce Sutter.
- In the top of the 10th, the
Cards score two runs off of big Lee Smith.
- In the bottom of the 10th, Bruce
Sutter gets the first two Cubs batters out easily, and up comes Bobby Dernier.
Sutter battles Dernier to a 3-2 count. The next pitch is close enough for a strike
and Dernier looked like he went around as well with a check swing, but the umpire (Harvey)
called neither and he walked. The next batter, Sandburg hits the first pitch from
Sutter out of the park for his second home run against Sutter in the game and ties up the
score again. (This was an unbelievable at-bat because the Cards should have had him
struck out on the called third strike, or at least on a the check swing and they probably
would have gone on to win the game... instead the game is tied and goes into the 11th!!!)
- In the bottom of the 11th, Leon
Durham leads off the inning with a walk (and we all know what happens with a lead off
walk...) from Jeff Lahti. Durham then steals second and goes to third on
Porter's throwing error. Herzog then decides to walk the next two to load the bases
and brings the infield in for the play at the plate. Frey counters with his last
position player, Dave Owen, and he sends a little flare to right field to win the game...
Unbelievable!!!!
There were tons more story lines in this
game, but these are some of the best!
(Please e-mail me with your most
memorable
game!)
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Books
(that I own) about the Cardinals
St. Louis
Cardinals - Yesterday & Today,
Bruce Herman, West Side
Publishing, 2008 (ISBN:
1-4127-1504-0)
The Gashouse
Gang,
John Heidenry, Public Affairs
Books, 2007 (ISBN:
1-58648-419-2)
Tales from The Cardinals Dugout,
Bob Forsch with Tom Wheatley, Sports Publishing LLC, 2003 (ISBN:
1-58621-671-X)
For Cardinal Fans Only!,
Rich Wolfe, Lone Wolfe Press,2003 (ISBN: 0-9729249-4-9)
Whitey's Boys, Rob Rains
& Alvin Reid, Triumph Books, 2002 (ISBN: 1-57243-485-6)
A Special Season, Rob
Rains, Sports Publishing LLC, 2002
(ISBN: 1-58261-657-4)
Remembering Jack, Rich
Wolfe, 2002 (ISBN: 0-9664912-5-4)
Ozzie Smith - Road to
Cooperstown, Ozzie Smith & Rob Rains, Sports Publisher,LLC, 2002
(ISBN: 1-58261-598-5)
Cardinal's Collection, 100 years
of St. Louis Cardinals Images, Mark Strange, Orange Fraizer Press,
2002 (ISBN: 1-882203-85-2)
You're Missin' a Great Game,
Whitey Herzog & Johnathan Pitts, Simon & Schuster, 1999 (ISBN: 0-684-85314-0)
The I-55 Series, Cubs vs. Cardinals,
George Castle & Jim Rygelski, Sports Publishing, Inc. 1999 (ISBN: 1-58261-032-0)
The St. Louis Cardinals
Encyclopedia, Bob Broeg & Jerry Vickery, Masters Press, 1998, (ISBN:
1-57028-171-8)
Celebrating 70: Mark McGwire's
Historic Season, Bernie Miklasz, Ron Smith, Mike Eisenbath, Dave Kindred, The
Sporting News Publishing, 1998, (ISBN: 0-89204-622-8)
Redbirds - A Century of Cardinals'
Baseball, Bob Broeg, Walsworth Publishing, 1992, (ISBN: 1-56166-075-2)
If I were a St. Louis Cardinal,
Joe D'Andrea, Picture Me Books, Inc, 1994, (ISBN: 1-878338-65-X)
Jack Buck - That's a Winner,
Jack Buck with Rob Rains & Bob Broeg, Sangamore Publishing, 1997, (ISBN:
1-57167-110-0)
This Date in Cardinal History,
John Leptich & Dave Baranowski, Stein and Day Publishers, 1983, (ISBN: 0-81286-133-7)
Baseball - An Illustrated History,
Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns, Knoff Publishing, 1994, (ISBN: 0-67940459-7)
The St. Louis Cardinals,
Rob Rains, St. Martins Press, 1992, (ISBN: 0-312-07089-6)
Snap me Perfect - The Darrell
Porter Story, Darrell Porter with William Deerfield, Thomas Nelson Publisher,
1984, (ISBN: 0-8407-5367-5)
Wizard,
Ozzie
Smith with Rob Rains, Contemporary Books, 1988, (ISBN: 0-8092-4594-9)
October 1964, David
Halberstam, Villard Book Publishing, 1994, (ISBN: 0-67941560-2)
St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Trivia,
Morris Jenkins, 1989
White Rat - A Life in Baseball,
Whitey Herzog & Kevin Horrigan, Harper & Row, 1987, (ISBN: 0-06080710-8)
Red - A Baseball Life,
Red Schoendienst with Rob Rains, Sports Publishing Inc, 1998, (ISBN: 1-57167-200-1)
Where's Harry, Steve
Stone with Barry Rozner, Taylor Publishing, 1999, (ISBN: 0-87833-233-2)
The Mac Attack: The Road to 62 and
Beyond, Trade Life Book, 1998, (ISBN: 1-57757-062-6)
Mark McGwire, David
Fisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1999, (ISBN: 0-8362-1462-5)
Mark McGwire - Mac Attack,
Rob Rains, Sports Publishing Inc, 1998 (ISBN: 1-58261-004-5)
Home Run Heroes, Simon
& Schuster, 1998, (ISBN: 0-684-86357-X)
The Cardinals Fan's Little Book of
Wisdom, Rob Rains, Diamond Communications, 1994, (ISBN: 0-912083-77-8)
Musial - From Stash to Stan
the Man, James N. Giglio, University of Missouri Press, 2001, (ISBN:
0-8262-1336-7)
Baseball from A-Z,
A children's book by the Cardinals wives. 2003
"Bullet Bob"
Comes to Louisville, John Morris, Diamond Communications, 1999, (ISBN:
1-888698-20-9)
A View from Second
Base, Tom Herr, Double Day Press, 1998, (ISBN: 09663875-0-3
Fleeter Than
Brids, Doug Feldmann, McFarland Publishers, (ISBN: 0-7864-1165-1)
The Long Season,
Jim Brosnan, Dell Publishers, 1960
Where Have You
Gone?, Rob Rains,
Sports Publishing Inc, 2005, (ISBN: 1-58261-155-6)
A Painted
House, John Grishham, Bantam Dell, 2001, (ISBN: 0-440-23722-X)
3 Nights in
August, Buzz Bissinger, First Mariner Books, 2005, (ISBN:
0-618-71053-1)
Cardinals
Journal, John Snyder, Emmis Books, 2006, (ISBN: 1-57860-254-8)
We Shocked the
World, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 2006, (ISBN: 0-9661397-7-1)
Pujols - More
Than The Game, Scott Lamb & Tim Ellsworth, Thomas Nelson Inc, 2011, (ISBN:
978-1-59555-224-2)
For the Love
of the Cardinals, Frederick C. Klein, 2007, (ISBN:
978-1-60078-019-6)
Albert the
Great, Rob Rains, Sports Publishing LLC, 2005, (ISBN: 1-58261-892-5)
St. Louis
Cardinals Crossword Puzzle Book, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Cider Mill
Press, 2008, (ISBN: 1-604433-050-3)
St. Louis
Cardinals Decades - A Scrapbook of Memories, St. Louis Post Dispatch Books,
Walsworth Publishing Co, 2009, (ISBN: 978-0-09842084-1-8)
One Last Strike,
Tony LaRussa with Rick Hummel, HarperCollins, 2012, (ISBN: 978-0-06-220738-8)
Commish & the
Cardinals, St. Louis Post Dispatch Books, 2007, (ISBN:
978-0-9661397-9-2)
365 Oddball
Days in St. Louis Cardinals History, Clerisy Press, 2011, (ISBN:
978-1-57860-471-5)
The Matheny
Manifesto, Mike Matheny with Jerry B. Jenkins, Crown Archetype, 2015, (ISBN:
978-0-553-44669-2)
Lucky Bastard, Joe Buck with
Michael Rosenberg, Dutton, 2016, (ISBN: 978-1-101-98458-1)
The Phenomenon, Rick Ankiel
with Tim Brown, PublicAffairs, 2017, (ISBN: 978-1-61039-686-8)
The Cardinals Way, Howard
Megdal, St. Martins Press, 2016, (ISBN: 978-1-250-05831-7)
I'm Keith Hernandez, Keith
Hernandez, Little & Brown, 2018, (ISBN: 978-0-316-39573-1)
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Sources:
- The St.
Louis Cardinals: the 100th anniversary history / Rob Rains / 1992
- St. Louis
Cardinals Encyclopedia / Bob Broeg, Jerry Vickery / 1998
- The Cardinals
Fan's Little Book of Wisdom/ Rob Rains / 1994
- St.
Louis Cardinals GameDay Magazine (many issues)
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