Why Les Bell Went From Slugger To Outcast With Cardinals

Rogers Hornsby brought out the best in the baseball talents of Les Bell, and soon after Hornsby departed the Cardinals, Bell did, too.

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Why Bob O'Farrell Was One & Done As Cardinals Manager

Sam Breadon wasn’t satisfied with Bob O’Farrell managing the Cardinals to a 92-win season. Breadon, the club owner, wanted O’Farrell to perform at the level of a most valuable player, too.

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How Bob O'Farrell Went From NL MVP To Cardinals Manager

In a move made as much for its public relations value as for on-field leadership, the Cardinals, in effect, hired two managers to replace Rogers Hornsby.

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Billy Southworth & His Timely Home Run For Cardinals

Three months after he was traded by the Giants to the Cardinals, Billy Southworth hit a home run against his former team, providing the winning run in the victory that clinched the first National League pennant for St. Louis.

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Cardinals Rookie Fred Frankhouse Sizzled In September

Joining a starting rotation that featured future Hall of Famers Jesse Haines and Grover Cleveland Alexander, rookie Fred Frankhouse strung together a September winning streak that nearly lifted the Cardinals to a second consecutive National League pennant.

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Our New Pete Alexander?

The Cardinals won the National League pennant in 1926 and met the New York Yankees in the World Series. Grover Cleveland (Pete) Alexander had the greatest moment of his illustrious career. He pitched complete game victories in Games 2 and 6. Bob O’Farrell was his teamate on that squad. He recounted a story for the book “The Glory of Their Times”.

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Cardinals Of Yore: Bob O'Farrell

Following a decade with Cubs during which he played in as many as 100 games a season only twice, Bob O'Farrell was traded to the Cardinals in 1925 for Mike Gonzalez and Howard Freigau.

View From The Cheap Seats

The House That Babe Ruth Built, & The Cardinals Leased

By now you’re probably weary of odes to Yankee Stadium — the long rhapsodies of writers saying farewell to our coliseum, the soft-focus interviews and wall-to-wall coverage of dirt-scooping and hand-print making, the video montages of cathedral memories from Spike Owen, Roberto Kelly, and Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens and other Yankee greats.

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Stadium Memories

"The House That Ruth Built," as New York Evening Telegram sportswriter Fred Lieb dubbed Yankee Stadium when it opened in 1923, will play host to its last All-Star Game on Tuesday night. It was widely recognized that the drawing power of home run champion Babe Ruth made that new stadium possible, and the Yankees, once ensconced in their new home after being kicked out of the Polo Grounds by the co-tenant New York Giants, went on in 1923 to win the first of their 26 World Series championships.

STL Today

Top Cardinals Teams & The MVP Award

Jerry Modene looks at the best players on the best St. Louis Cardinals teams of all time, including those who won the Most Valuable Player Award and others who could have.

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Scout.com: Counting Down Best Cardinals Teams #11 1926

Our new series counts down the 15 best St. Louis Cardinals teams in the long and storied history of the National League’s most successful franchise. The 1926 edition comes in at number 11.

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