How Richie Allen Rolled A Lucky Seven For 11,111

Richie Allen capped one of his best performances for the Cardinals by hitting a grand slam against the pitcher who got traded with him to St. Louis.

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Trades Link Tim McCarver, Willie McGee Decades Later

The Cardinals teams from the 1960s and '80s were some of the most successful teams in franchise history. St. Louis won six National League pennants and three World Series titles (’64, ’67 and ’82) in those two decades.

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Why Cardinals Couldn't Hold On To Willie Montanez

The Cardinals had Willie Montanez in their organization, lost him, got him back, lost him again and made another attempt to reacquire him.

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Why Cardinals Made Joe Torre A Third Baseman

Joe Torre reported to Cardinals spring training prepared to be their catcher, got switched to third base two weeks before the season opened and ended up playing a similar number of games at both positions.

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Curt Flood Fought For Freedom After Trade By Cardinals

Center fielder Curt Flood wasn’t bluffing when he said he’d rather quit playing than accept a trade.

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Moose Stubing Missed With Cardinals, Flourished As Coach

A candidate to replace Bill White as Cardinals first baseman, Moose Stubing had his path blocked by Orlando Cepeda for the second time in his career.

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Dylan Carlson Looks To Make A Splash

Dylan Carlson was the Cardinals’ first-round pick in 2016, so it’s easy to look at his numbers and say he’s been disappointing. After getting his feet wet with a .717 OPS in his draft year, he slashed a ho-hum .240/.342/.347 in his first full season. There have been flashes of power, yet the switch-hitting outfielder has gone deep just 10 times in 652 professional plate appearances.

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Cardinals Pitching Was No Mystery To Don Lock

During a season in which the Cardinals won a National League pennant and World Series championship, Don Lock found the key to success against their formidable pitching.

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Lots To Celebrate: 1967 Cardinals Clincher

Though they entered September with a 10-game lead over their closest pursuer, making a pennant a virtual given, the Cardinals reacted with an outpouring of genuine joy and giddy wonderment on the night they clinched the 1967 National League championship.

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Fidel Castro's Death Big News For Exiles In MLB

Almost two years after he defected from Cuba, Rolando Arrojo approached me with a request one morning during the Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ inaugural spring training.

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Video: Cookie Rojas Describes What Cuban Players Did After Cuban Banned Pro Baseball

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Curt Flood Was Vastly Underrated, Underappreciated

Cardinals Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst summarized former center fielder Curt Flood’s career this way: “He was a better ballplayer than everybody thought he was.”

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How Mike Gonzalez Became First Cuban Manager In Majors

Branch Rickey is well known for being the Dodgers general manager who broke baseball’s color barrier by bringing Jackie Robinson to the major leagues. What is less known is that Rickey was the Cardinals general manager who made Mike Gonzalez the first Cuban manager in the major leagues.

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Dick Allen Deserves A Spot In The Hall Of Fame

For openers, I've never seen a player hit a baseball consistently as far or as hard as Dick Allen did with his beautiful, menacing swing. And I've never seen a rookie season comparable to the one Allen put in the record books in 1964.

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Whitey Herzog Likes Tom Lawless In Houston

One of the first calls Tom Lawless made last Monday after it was announced he had been named interim manager of the Houston Astros was to Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog, who managed Lawless on the Cardinals’ championship teams in the mid-1980s.

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Leaving The Cardinals Was Twice As Hard For Tim McCarver

Being discarded by the Cardinals was tough on Tim McCarver the first time it happened. The second time was worse.

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The Top Five Cubans To Play For The Cardinals

With comparisons already being made to a young Derek Jeter, shortstop Aledmys Diaz will face pressure to develop into the best Cuban player to perform for the Cardinals.

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The Virtual 1971-80 Cardinals: Part One

The improbably named Vaughan P. "Bing" Devine served as the general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals for most of a 20-plus-year period. His Cardinals' tenure was broken up into two stints: the first from November 1957 until August 1964, and the second from December 1967 until October 1978. (In between, Devine spent one season as the GM for the New York Mets.)

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