Each Team's Best Small School Draft Pick

College baseball has produced a galaxy of stars. The greatest hitter and pitcher of the last 50 years, Barry Bonds (Arizona State) and Roger Clemens (Texas), turned in memorable College World Series performances before entering pro ball. Last year's major award winners include Old Dominion's Justin Verlander (American League Cy Young), Stetson's Jacob deGrom (National League Cy Young) and Florida's Pete Alonso (NL Rookie of the Year).

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2020 Hall Of Fame Induction Postponed To July 2021

Derek Jeter was among the tens of thousands hanging on Mariano Rivera’s words as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s first unanimous inductee appeared in Cooperstown, N.Y., last July, and as the longtime Yankees teammates shared that moment in the sun, there was every reason to believe that a similar speech would be heard this summer.
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Add the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s induction to the coronavirus pandemic’s cancellations.
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Former Cardinals star Ted Simmons had waited more a quarter century, since his name first surfaced on a Hall of Fame ballot, to enter the National Baseball Hall of Museum as an inductee. He is in. Make no mistake about that. He just hasn’t been inducted.
Post-Dispatch

Who Was Each Club's Best Player Of The 1990's?

We just finished up a decade, and we wrote many, many stories commemorating the end of that decade, including an All-Decade Team. But now that we all have some more time on our hands, baseball-wise, it might be time for some other decade-looks-back.

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Capping Career With Cardinals, Larry Walker A Hall Of Famer

Two former Cardinals players will be enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y., this summer.
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The St. Louis Cardinals congratulate former Redbirds outfielder Larry Walker who earned selection today to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Walker joined Derek Jeter among the players who received the necessary 75 percent of all ballots cast by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA).
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A legend famous for how high he jumped at his position and an all-around great who had to fight the perception altitude was the reason for his aptitude will join Ted Simmons in Cooperstown, N.Y., as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2020.
Birdland

The timeframe Larry Walker had been told to be ready Tuesday for a phone call that would change his life had “come and gone,” he said, and he was to about walk back inside his house, believing he was out of the running for baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Post-Dispatch

Who'll Get The Call? 2020 Hall Of Fame Tracking, Explained

This year's Hall of Fame results are less than a week away. The Cooperstown Class of 2020 will be finalized next Tuesday, Jan. 21, with coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET on MLB Network and the announcement airing in the 6 p.m. hour.

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It's Another Game Five Showdown. Are You Ready For More Drama?

It’s been a great series, overloaded with intensity and passion and turbulent emotional swings. It’s everything you hope for in a competition. It’s an example of why we love sports.

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Jake Odorizzi Racks Up 11 K's As Twins Fall To Indians

The Twins have been slow to catch up to the strikeout-dominated game of recent years, but after Minnesota set a franchise record in strikeouts last season, Jose Berrios and Jake Odorizzi have the Twins off to a historic start in 2019.

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These Career Milestones Are On Tap For 2019

No baseball season is complete without the celebration of a good milestone or two, and we've had plenty of memorable moments in recent years, from the 3,000th hits of Ichiro Suzuki and Adrian Beltre to Albert Pujols' 600th homer.

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Larry Walker, Scott Rolen See Hall Of Fame Voting Support Grow

While former closer Lee Smith will be the only Cardinal represented in the 2019 National Baseball Hall of Fame class, a pair of players with connections to the club did receive increased support on ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America this year.

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Hall Of Fame Voting ResultsTo Be Revealed Today. Who Did Derrick Goold Vote For?

The National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot today, live on MLB Network shortly after 5 p.m. St. Louis time. Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold revealed his selections on the 2019 ballot during his Jan. 7 live chat with Cardinals fans.

Birdland

What To Watch For In Hall Of Fame Voting

The Hot Stove has dominated conversation this winter, but believe it or not, it's almost Hall of Fame time.

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Ranking Baseball's Five Best Rivalries

With respect to Cole Hamels, he's entitled to his view of the Cubs-Brewers rivalry. Or non-rivalry, to be more precise. That's the beauty of rivalries. They're whatever you or I want them to be.

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Throwing First-Pitch Strikes Key To Success For Miles Mikolas

Miles Tice Mikolas was born in 1988, the same year they began tracking a particularly esoteric baseball stat: first-pitch strike percentage. And so, in Mikolas’ entire life, only nine times has a player ever had a better percentage for a season than Mikolas’ current season.

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Justin Verlander K's 12 Tigers But Allows Four Homers

Justin Verlander's first start against his former team will be remembered more for the career-high-tying four homers he allowed on Sunday at Minute Maid Park than the flashes of brilliance he showed while striking out 12 batters.

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Chris Capuano Working On Getting Master's Degree At MIT

Valedictorian of his Cathedral High School class, Phi Beta Kappa student at Duke University and . . . major league baseball pitcher?

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With Marlins' OK, Cardinals Could Take Their Pitch To Giancarlo Stanton

In the years since, this one Thanksgiving dinner in Arizona would take on a mythic quality – not unlike a certain sock the host would later wear – and come to symbolize the breaking of bread that sped the 2004 Boston Red Sox toward its curse-breaking championship. The dishes served, the turkey’s cook, and how sick one of the attendees became the next day are all part of "Sawx" lore because of the dessert to follow, but Curt Schilling couldn’t see that, not yet, as he peered across the table to his unexpected guests.

Bird Land

Closer To Starter A Rare Move For Pitchers

The Cardinals went into Spring Training with a plan to stretch out former closer Trevor Rosenthal, setting him up for a more versatile bullpen role while also giving him an opportunity to win a rotation spot.

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Changing Speeds With Alex Reyes

As a hitter, when you are tasked with catching up to 101+ MPH, it is borderline unfair to also have to wait back on a pitch in the mid to high 70’s.

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Free Barry Bonds & Roger Clemens! Ten Takeaways From MLB Hall Of Fame Results

Here are my 10 takeaways from the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame voting…

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J.D. Drew Received No Votes For Hall Of Fame

Five former Red Sox players (Mike Cameron, J.D. Drew, Orlando Cabrera, Freddy Sanchez and Matt Stairs) didn't receive any votes on their first (and last) year on the ballot.

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