The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals

The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals
Title The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals PDF eBook
Author League Baseball
Publisher Fenn-M&S
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre World Series (Baseball)
ISBN 9780771057250

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Describes the St. Louis Cardinals' 2011 World Series championship, with highlights of each game in the series, season statistics, profiles of each team member, and the history of the team in the postseason.

Cardinals Journal

Cardinals Journal
Title Cardinals Journal PDF eBook
Author John Snyder
Publisher
Pages 792
Release 2010
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9781578603381

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Updated to include the 2009 season, Cardinals Journal is the definitive, in-depth chronicle of one of Major League baseball’s most beloved franchises from their founding in 1882. This is the ultimate Cardinals fan’s resource, dividing the team’s history into decades, years, and even days. The updated journal not only provides hitting and pitching highlights as well as team and player stats, but it also includes unusual facts that go beyond just a box score. Along with past and present photos, sidebars, and anecdotes, fans will also find lists of all-time hitting and pitching leaders, all-decade all-star teams, and an all-time roster that includes team uniform numbers. Baseball fans will have their hands full well beyond the season of America’s favorite game.

St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present

St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present
Title St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present PDF eBook
Author Doug Feldmann
Publisher Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pages 147
Release 2008-12-15
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1616731060

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Explore over a century of Cardinals baseball in this illustrated tour of the players, teams, ballparks, and historic moments! With a legacy that goes back to the Brown Stockings of the old American Association, the St. Louis Cardinals have one of the longest and greatest traditions in the history of baseball. Winners of ten World Series titles (second only to the New York Yankees) and twenty-one pennants dating back to 1885, the Redbirds have established a dynasty across the decades—from Charlie Comiskey’s four-time AA champs, through the “Gashouse Gang” of the 1930s and the “Runnin’ Redbirds” in the 1980s, up to the 2006 World Champions. Front-office pioneers like Chris von der Ahe and Branch Rickey have put the Cardinals franchise at the forefront of innovation, while bringing in some of baseball’s greatest talent—pitchers Dizzy Dean to Bob Gibson, sluggers Johnny Mize to Mark McGwire, and all-around superstars like Rogers “Rajah” Hornsby, Stan “the Man” Musial, and Albert Pujols. Pairing historic black-and-white photos and contemporary images of the modern game, St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present explores the ballparks and the fans, the players and the teams that have defined Cardinals baseball.

El Birdos

El Birdos
Title El Birdos PDF eBook
Author Doug Feldmann
Publisher McFarland
Pages 411
Release 2010-03-22
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0786455357

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In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch working on both, and by May 1966, when the new Busch Stadium was opened, the St. Louis Cardinals were on the cusp of greatness. A world championship would follow in 1967, and in 1968 the Cardinals battled the Tigers in a classic seven-game series, narrowly losing their bid for back-to-back titles. This volume looks back at the outstanding Cardinal teams of the 1967 and 1968 seasons. Beginning with the ownership shift in the early 1950s, it examines the events leading up to the opening of the new stadium and tracks the various player trades, policy changes and inside dealings of baseball that produced one of the era's great teams. The effects of Branch Rickey's farm system on both the franchise's success and the sport of baseball are discussed, as are the rumblings of labor trouble that would directly involve one of the Cardinals' own. An appendix contains detailed statistics from the 1967 and 1968 seasons. An index and period photographs are also included.

High-flying Birds

High-flying Birds
Title High-flying Birds PDF eBook
Author Jerome M. Mileur
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Pages 290
Release 2009
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0826271782

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"Mileur provides a game-by-game account of the 1942 St. Louis Cardinals, world champions and the winningest team in franchise history. He recounts the team's close pennant race against the Brooklyn Dodgers and World Series victory over the New York Yankees, while conveying the physical and mental demands on the players within the context of wartime America"--Provided by publisher.

Taking Flight

Taking Flight
Title Taking Flight PDF eBook
Author Rob Rains
Publisher Triumph Books
Pages 242
Release 2016-04-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1633194531

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Written by veteran sportswriter and Cardinals insider Rob Rains, Taking Flight answers two basic questions – what makes the Cardinals different from other organizations, and why are they so successful? Perhaps the most important man in the history of the organization was George Kissell. Among the future managers who came under Kissell's tutelage were Sparky Anderson, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and the Cardinals' current manager, Mike Matheny. Kissell's imprint is still everywhere on the Cardinals' organization, nearly five years after his death. So too is the work of longtime coach and catching instructor Dave Ricketts, the man who first trained Matheny and later, Yadier Molina. It is the men such as Kissell and Ricketts, who worked for years without fame or notoriety, who helped mold the Cardinals into the franchise it is today.

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
Title Drama and Pride in the Gateway City PDF eBook
Author Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 943
Release 2020-02-17
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1496210506

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By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages--pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals' broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League--along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.