How Harry Caray Got Bounced From Cardinals Booth

Harry Caray built a broadcast career in St. Louis based on baseball and beer, but his relationship with the Anheuser-Busch brewery became as flat as a cup of Budweiser left outside in the summer sun.

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St. Louis' Baseball Heritage

The following June in Hoboken, N.J., the Knickerbockers played the New York Baseball Club in the first recorded game using those rules. But historians still debate over the earliest traces of baseball. Fossils have been found in other New England towns and hamlets, places in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, residue dating to the 1820s.

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The Voices Of Baseball

The remarkable run of success in St. Louis baseball radio booths started with a guy named France in the late 1920s then rolled through a Dizzy period in the '40s. The tradition was able to Caray on through the '50s and into '60s. The Bucks stopped there, too. Throw in long runs by Mike Shannon and Buddy Blattner and a shorter spree by Joe Garagiola and the roster is resplendent.

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Black History Month

Len Tucker: The first black player signed by the St. Louis Cardinals, Tucker inked a deal with the Redbirds nearly eight years after the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson. Tucker, known for his speed and offensive prowess, starred in the Minors for 11 years but never made it to the Majors.

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080128&content_id=342738&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp



here's an article on len tucker with some pics of him:
http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/tucker_len.htm