The Best Hometown Draft Pick For All 30 Teams

Rickey Henderson to the A's. Cal Ripken Jr. to the Orioles. Barry Larkin to the Reds. It's not uncommon to see a team go with a hometown kid in the Draft.

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How Mike Torrez Nearly Had No-Hitter For Cardinals

Mike Torrez, a big guy with big talent, capped a hot personal stretch for the Cardinals with his most dominant pitching performance.

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Cardinals Homestand Highlights: Tuesday, May 21 - Sunday, May 26, 2019

Returning from their road trip through Atlanta and Arlington, the Cardinals are back at Busch for five games over seven days. The fourth homestand of the year opens with two games against the Kansas City Royals (May 21-22) and concludes with a three-game weekend series with the Atlanta Braves (May 24-26).

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Coco Laboy: Cardinals Outcast Brought Joy To Expos

The National League expansion draft enabled third baseman Coco Laboy to get out from under control of the Cardinals and earn a chance to play in the major leagues.

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Oft-Overlooked Ted Simmons Has Case For Hall Of Fame

Ted Simmons is probably the most surprising player on this year's Modern Era Committee Hall of Fame ballot, but not because he lacks a worthy resume. There's a good argument for him, but he is the only player on the ballot who got almost no support from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

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Cardinals Were Cure To Ending Slump For Lee May

Lee May, one of the National League’s most consistent sluggers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, hit for both average and power against the Cardinals.

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Lee Tunnell Found Path To World Series With Cardinals

With his big-league career in rapid freefall, Lee Tunnell got an unexpected boost from a veteran scout and grabbed hold of an opportunity presented by the Cardinals. Six months later, Tunnell was pitching in the World Series.

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How Cardinals Tried Making Ted Simmons A Third Baseman

Mercifully, an experiment by the Cardinals to play Ted Simmons at third base lasted just two games. Still, plenty of damage was done. Simmons made three errors that contributed to two defeats, got booed by Cardinals fans and then lashed out at them, saying they lacked perspective and that St. Louis didn’t deserve its reputation for being a good sports town.

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Fernandomania Started 35 Years Ago Today

Today, 35 years ago, he began the '' Fernandomania '' and few like Mike Scioscia, who serves as manager of the Angels today to evoke the moment when '' El Toro Etchohuaquila '' appeared unexpectedly in his first game as starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers .  (Translated)

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Keith Hernandez Led Cardinals To Opening Win At Pirates

Playing for a new manager, Vern Rapp, and with a core of young, highly regarded players, such as Keith Hernandez, Garry Templeton and John Denny, the Cardinals enjoyed a successful opening to the 1977 season.

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Whitey Herzog Outwitted Cardinals On Jim Bibby Deal

The 1970s was a decade when the Cardinals dealt a significant number of quality starting pitchers, most notably Steve Carlton, Jerry Reuss, Mike Torrez and Jim Bibby.

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Cardinals Have 1,026-1025 All-Time Edge On Dodgers As Two Of NL's Best Meet

Since 1892, when Brooklyn and St. Louis first played in the National League together, the rivalry has been about as close as is humanly possible. In 123 previous seasons, counting postseason play, Brooklyn/Los Angeles has won 1,025 games. St. Louis has won 1,026.

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Nick Greenwood Still Working On Curve; Fungo Drills

Though we haven’t seen much of his drop down delivery in games this spring, St. Louis Cardinals lefty Nick Greenwood has continued to work on his new side-armed breaking pitch.

STL Baseball Weekly

Jerry Reuss Fondly Recalls St. Louis

Like David Freese a few decades later, Jerry Reuss knows what it’s like to be a hometown kid wearing the St. Louis Cardinals jersey. Drafted out of Ritenour High School in 1967, the left-hander began his 22-year big league career with the Cardinals and won 22 games for St. Louis before he was traded to Houston–over wanting a few thousand dollars more in salary or having a mustache.

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Tommy Davis, Jerry Reuss Assess Cardinals Hall Of Fame Candidates

Five former Cardinals are among the 10 finalists on the Golden Era ballot under consideration for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Jerry Reuss On Bob Gibson As A Teammate: He Was Tough

Jerry Reuss, left-handed pitcher and St. Louis native, joined his hometown Cardinals at age 20 in 1969. He was a neophyte on a team of championship-tested veterans such as Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, Tim McCarver, Lou Brock and Curt Flood.

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First-Place Dodgers Get A Boost From Dan Haren

The Dodgers have four starters with at least 12 wins for the first time since 1985, which means Dan Haren has been among their most successful fourth starters in decades.

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Charlie Steiner & Jerry Reuss On Live At Shannon's 7-18-14

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Jerry Reuss On The Jim Edmonds & Tim McKernan Show 7-14-14

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Jerry Reuss & John Mozeliak On The Press Box 6-16-14

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