'Ladies Day' Connected Women To Baseball

Every time the Cardinals step onto the field at Busch Stadium III, thousands of seats are filled by a melting pot of people who have come together to take in a ballgame. Early in baseball's history, however, a diversity of spectators attending a game was extremely rare.

St. Louis Official Site

Trio With St. Louis Ties Lacks Support For Cooperstown

The National Baseball Hall of Fame's committee convened to considered pre-integration era stars and executives failed to elect any of the 10 candidates, leading Cooperstown to again reconsider the committee process.

Bird Land

Franchise Bests/Worsts: Cardinals

Over the course of the next month, we'll venture through the history of each of the 30 Major League Baseball franchises, discussing some of the best and worst moments, players, teams, etc. It's more a fun snapshot for discussion purposes than a be-all, end-all declaration. We continue today with the St. Louis Cardinals.

CBS Sports

Cardinals Winter Warm-Up Offers Much To Do On A Limited Budget

Attending the Cardinals Care Winter Warm-Up with very deep pockets must be a blast. Then there's no need to fret over the price of autograph tickets, silent-auction items, memorabilia, souvenirs and concessions.

Fox Sports Midwest

Sportsman's Park, Part One: The Place

On May 8, 1966, after a day game in which the San Francisco Giants trounced the St. Louis Cardinals, the home plate at old Sportsman’s Park was jimmied out of the dirt and transported via helicopter to spiffy new grounds at the perfectly circular Busch Stadium downtown, marking the end of an era of professional baseball on the north side.

Examiner

The Greatest Cardinals Of Each Time: Perfectos & Pre-Branch Rickey, 1899-1919

By 1898 the Browns, kings of the American Association, were NL bottom-feeders, and when a bereft Von der Ahe sold out to Frank and Stanley Robison there wasn't enough capital left in the name to avoid a change to the delightfully named fifth-place St. Louis Perfectos, the Frankenstein-ish result of an offseason heart transplant.

Viva El Birdos

Book Exerpt: "Evaluating Baseball's Managers" - Charles Comiskey

THT is publishing excerpts from Evaluating Baseball's Managers, 1876-2008, which should be released in December, but can be ordered now. (I should note I make considerably more money if you order directly from the publisher, but if you want to get it from Amazon or another source that's your call.)

The Hardball Times

The Cardinals' 10,000-Win Question

The St. Louis Cardinals are 15 wins away from becoming the fourth franchise in baseball history to win 10,000 games and only the second to do so without changing their address. Unless, that is, you asked the Cardinals.

Birdland