Bill Virdon Had Award-Winning Start With Cardinals

"It seems like it was yesterday,” said Bill Virdon. Instead, it was 60 years ago that the former Cardinals Rookie of the Year then playing for Pittsburgh hit the most famous double play that wasn’t in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.

Post-Dispatch

Why Cardinals Wanted Bobby Del Greco, Not Bill Virdon

Bobby Del Greco was a graceful center fielder with a strong arm, but he was no Bill Virdon.

RetroSimba

Bobby Del Greco Remembered As 'Hero,' 'Bigger Than Life'

One of Bobby Del Greco Jr.’s best memories of his father involves a fried bologna sandwich, the Three Stooges and an overturned newspaper delivery truck in the river near the Fort Pitt Bridge.

Pittsburgh TribLive

Ed Roebuck Nearly Was Unbeatable Vs. Cardinals

While pitching to a Cardinals batter, Sandy Koufax was replaced by Ed Roebuck, who got the Dodgers out of a jam and went on to earn a win in an eight-inning relief effort.

RetroSimba

How Bobby Gene Smith Became Cardinals Starter In Center

Twice, Bobby Gene Smith opened seasons as the starting center fielder for the Cardinals. Both times, he was unable to hit consistently and was replaced by a future member of the Cardinals Hall of Fame.

RetroSimba

Cardinals Prepare Jim King For Big-League Career

Jim King spent five years in the Cardinals organization, learning from the likes of George Kissell and Johnny Keane, but he twice departed the Redbirds and never got much of a chance to make an impact with them at the big-league level.

RetroSimba

Brewers Haven't Had Much Luck In St. Louis

With the Milwaukee Brewers trailing the Cardinals by five games with 12 to play and finding the Pittsburgh Pirates between themselves and the top of the National League Central Division, the Brewers’ three-game series with the Cardinals beginning at Busch Stadium Tuesday night certainly represents something of a showdown.

Post-Dispatch

Ken Boyer Converted From Infield To Center

When Tyler Greene was told recently by manager Tony La Russa he would be expected to fill in at center field as well as in the infield, it brought back memories of the Cardinals’ conversion of Ken Boyer.

Retro Simba

Adam Wainwright Remembers Tips From Bob Gibson

Cardinals righthander Adam Wainwright already this season has recorded scoreless streaks of 26 and 25 1/3 innings. This, in a way, nearly matches Bob Gibson, the greatest Cardinals righthander of them all, except that Gibson had all 47 of his scoreless innings in one swoop in his landmark 1968 season when he had a 1.12 earned-run average.

STL Today

The Branch Rickey Pirates (Part Three: 1951-52)

In our first installment, we joined the legendary Branch Rickey as he took over the general managership of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the autumn of 1950. Last time, we examined Rickey’s range of actions in his first year in the new job, a period in which he didn't find immediate success, but executed generally sound decisions and appeared to have made progress.

The Hardball Times