Reds Do Not Renew Jody Davis' Contract, Keep Leon Durham

The Reds’ staffs for their Minor League affiliates have been established.

Cincinnati Official Site

Keith Hernandez On His Cardinals Career, The Modern Game, & A Mets Trade That Never Was

As someone who has co-authored a recent baseball memoir, I can tell you that for a book of this kind to resonate with the audience, the author needs to accomplish four things:

Sporting News

Leon Durham, Jeff Fassero, Jody Davis, Desi Relaford, Delino DeShields, Tony Fossas, Milt Thompson, & Darren Bragg Named Coaches In Reds' Minor Leagues

There will be changes in the coaching staff of the Reds' top Minor League affiliate, Triple-A Louisville.

Cincinnati Official Site

Patience, Faith Pay Off For Leon Durham

Twenty-three years.

KSDK

Leon Durham & His Sad Second Act With Cardinals

Given a chance at redemption by the 1989 Cardinals after a bout with substance abuse, Leon Durham botched the opportunity and got suspended from the major leagues for failing a drug test. At 32, his big-league career had reached rock bottom.

RetroSimba

Leon Durham Will Be At Wrigley, Cheering On Cubs

Leon Durham was just finishing a hitting lesson when the phone rang. He was finishing out his week back home in Cincinnati before hitting the road for Chicago.

Detroit Official Site

Cubs Win NL Pennant For The First Time Since 1945! Here's A Coping Guide For Cardinals Fans

Yo, Cardinals fans … If you are down and out over the Cubs’ ascension to the top of the National League and their first league pennant since 1945 — the year Missourian Harry S. Truman was our nation’s 33rd President — then I am here to help.

101 ESPN

Rick Sutcliffe, Star Of 1984 Cubs, Says This Year's Team Is Better; Kevin Siegrist-Trevor Rosenthal

In the last 70 or so years, the Chicago Cubs’ 1984 club probably was best equipped to go to the World Series, pending, of course, further developments this year. They had won the most games in the National League at 96 and, to reach the Series, they had to win only one round, a best-of-five league championship series against a San Diego Padres team that had a terrible rotation.

Post-Dispatch

Whitey Herzog Revisits The Year He Rebuilt The Cardinals

The way Whitey Herzog tells it, it started at Grant’s Farm over braunschweiger sandwiches, a few hands of euchre and, of course, some cold bottles of the family label.

Belleville News Democrat

Cardinals' Postseason Hopes Lie With John Lackey

Is this how the triple-digit win, sub-3.00 ERA season ends: as hors d’oeuvres to history, a minor inconvenience for the hated and apparently underrated Chicago Cubs?

Hochman

Cardinals Fan Taunts The Cubs With 'Mount Chokemore' Painting

The Chicago Cubs have decades worth of material that can be used against them for taunting purposes. It's the unfortunate reality for a franchise that hasn't won a World Series championship since 1908, and it's a reality that's never lost on fans of their biggest rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals.

Big League Stew

Surging Cubs Earn Media Limelight

Brace for it, Cardinal Nation. The Chicago Cubs will be the media darlings in this playoff series.

Tipsheet

A New Day For Cardinals Vs. Cubs Rivalry

Before the drama begins in the late Friday afternoon shadows of Busch Stadium, let’s get one thing out of the way, putting it to the side like a worn antique that no longer fits the room. The St. Louis Cardinals are about to face the Chicago Cubs in the National League division series, and this has absolutely nothing to do with 1908, William Sianis and his billy goat, the collapse of 1969, or the black cat at Shea Stadium.

Bernie Bits

How Vince Coleman, Willie McGee Left Cubs In Dust

In an unusual play that involved a Penguin, a Bull and Vince Coleman establishing a major-league rookie record, the Cardinals stole four bases on one pitch in a game against their archrivals, the Cubs.

RetroSimba

Leon Durham Named Hitting Coach For Magallanes

Former bigleaguer Leon Durham will team with Hidalgo, one of the coaches of batting. It belongs to the Detroit Tigers and also works at the main branch of that currency.  (Translated)

El Emergente

Mike Maroth, Leon Durham, Gerald Perry, & Mark Johnson Receive Coaching Assignments In Tigers Minors

The last time Mike Maroth took the mound at Triple-A Toledo, he was still trying to work his way back into the Tigers' rotation. That was in 2006, after he underwent surgery to remove bone chips in his elbow earlier that year.

Detroit Official Site

Leon Durham, Gerald Perry, & Gene Roof Special Guests At Tigers Camp

Along with those players, Tigers legends Willie Horton and Al Kaline will again be in uniform this spring as part of the Tigers' staff. The duo will be joined by a host of other guest staff members, including Kevin Bradshaw, Bill Dancy, Joe DePastino, Leon "Bull" Durham, Bruce Fields, Jaime Garcia, Al Nipper, Dave Owen, Larry Parrish, Gerald Perry, Brian Peterson, Gene Roof and A.J Sager.

Detroit Official Site

30 Years Ago, Deal For Bruce Sutter Revived Cardinals

Thirty years ago today (Dec. 9), the Cardinals made a trade that successfully altered the course of the franchise.

Retro Simba

Leon Durham Named Tigers Triple-A Hitting Coach

The Tigers still haven't filled their managerial vacancy at Double-A Erie, but the rest of their minor league staffs are pretty much set. We found out last week about Phil Nevin joining Leon Durham and A.J. Sager at Triple-A Toledo. Jerry Martin will take over as Erie hitting coach, a spot that Andrew Graham filled for much of last season. The staff at Class A Lakeland will remain intact with manager Andy Barkett, pitching coach Joe Coleman and hitting coach Larry Herndon.

Beck's Blog

Mariners Speak With Leon Durham & Milt Thompson About Hitting Coach Job

A former All-Star hitter, also synonymous with the Chicago Cubs' playoff curse two decades before anyone had heard of Steve Bartman, is being considered for the Mariners' coaching staff.

Seattle Times