Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Greatest Cardinals Of Each Time: Perfectos & Pre-Branch Rickey, 1899-1919

By 1898 the Browns, kings of the American Association, were NL bottom-feeders, and when a bereft Von der Ahe sold out to Frank and Stanley Robison there wasn't enough capital left in the name to avoid a change to the delightfully named fifth-place St. Louis Perfectos, the Frankenstein-ish result of an offseason heart transplant.

Viva El Birdos

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