In Memory Of Former Cardinals: 2017

2016 was a relatively quiet year in that only seven former St. Louis Cardinals passed away, the lowest total since I first began preparing these annual reports in 2005. Unfortunately, in 2017, the count increased to nine, including former manager Solly Hemus.

The Cardinal Nation

Notable Deaths In The St. Louis Sports World During 2017

There were several notable deaths in the St. Louis sports community in 2017. Here is a look back at the people we lost this year: (listed in alphabetical order)

STL Sports Page

Spirits Are Up In Cardinals' Camp

Apparently things are different here in the Cardinals’ spring training clubhouse, so upon my arrival, I asked Greg Garcia to put it into words, to which he promptly explained: “You can’t put it into words.

Hochman

Ned Garver Passes

Baseball Musings

The Most Unloved Team In Baseball

I was a thirteen-year-old baseball nut in 1948 when I discovered the St. Louis Browns of the American League. Red, white, and blue had monopolized big-league team colors since Bob (Death to Flying Things) Ferguson had cavorted for the Hartford Dark Blues decades before, but the Browns had been flouting color convention since their founding, in 1902. For the same logical reason that the Homestead Grays’ uniforms could hardly be puce or taupe, the Browns had to wear brown. A rich color, brown, but not a heroic color.

New Yorker

Sportsman's Park, Part Two: The People

It’s like a litany of baseball saints, the St. Louis Cardinal and Brown players who called Sportsman’s Park home and never knew the “cushy” setting of Busch Stadium downtown: Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, Dizzy Dean, Ducky Medwick, Frankie Frisch and, of course, Stan Musial.

Examiner

Four Candidates For Cardinals MVP

With 27 games remaining on the Cardinals’ regular-season schedule, it’s a good time to pose this question: Who is the team MVP?

Bernie Bytes

Remembering That St. Louis Used To Be A Two-Team Town

A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon in the company of some elderly former major league ballplayers. They, at one time, wore the uniform of the St. Louis Browns.

The Southern