Dane Iorg Was Cardinals' World Series Hero - And World Series Tormentor

The designated hitter, an American League concept largely foreign to St. Louis fans but which probably will be seen this summer and fall, has been employed here on just one previous occasion, the 1982 World Series.

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Relive Glory Of 1980's Cardinals Monday On MLBN

The 1980s Cardinals came to dominate baseball, both in the standings and in style. St. Louis won three pennants ('82, '85, '87) and one World Series ('82) -- its first championship since '67 -- with an emphasis on speed, defense and the bullpen.
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Monday is "Cardinals Day" on MLB Network, which showcases the team in a variety of programs that mostly are tied to the 1982 World Series championship team.
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Hot Take: Five Best Catchers In Cardinals History

No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun and debate purposes only … if you don’t agree with the order, participate in the Twitter poll to vote for your favorite at this position.

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Better Than You Remembered: Darrell Porter

The first baseball team I ever loved was the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals. I was six years old, and my father took me to Busch Stadium -- a two-hour drive from Illinois -- on the back of his motorcycle, with neither of us wearing helmets and with my “seat belt” being me holding onto the back of his jacket the whole ride. Ozzie Smith did a backflip and Willie McGee hit a triple, and I was hooked for life.

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New Documentary On 1980's Cardinals Is As Fun As They Were

The first baseball team you follow as a kid, the first one you truly dedicate yourself to obsessing over every day for six months of the year, can set the tone for the rest of your baseball fandom moving forward. Baseball just means more to you when you’re a kid: Every pitch seems like the most important pitch ever thrown, every win is glorious, every loss is tragic, all the players are 15 feet tall. You can never quite recreate the rush of that first team you truly love, that first time you feel so connected to it, to its fans, to its ebbs and flows, to something larger than yourself. It sticks with you forever.
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It’s been four decades since “Whiteyball” first gripped St. Louis, then all of baseball.
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St. Louis Baseball Writers To Honor Ted Simmons On January 19th

Quickly, who was the most recent former player elected to the National Baseball of Fame? An easy one. It’s former Cardinals catching star Ted Simmons, who gained the honor last month in recent balloting by the Hall of Fame’s Modern Baseball Era committee.

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How Cardinals Stretched To Keep Matt Holliday

The Cardinals liked what they saw from Matt Holliday in the short term and decided to pay the price to keep him for the long term.

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David Freese Retires After 11 Seasons

David Freese, the hometown hero who etched himself in Cardinals history with a pair of swings one October night in 2011, has called it a career.
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In the ninth inning Friday as the Cardinals tried to conjure, magically, a rally against the Washington Nationals in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, the scoreboard at Busch Stadium did its best to wake the spirits of Octobers past by playing highlights from Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.
Birdland

How Terry Kennedy Started To Catch On With Cardinals

Called up from the minors to substitute for an injured Ted Simmons at catcher, Cardinals rookie Terry Kennedy contributed a bloop and a blast in a doubleheader sweep of the Phillies.

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Jordan Hicks Is Well-Suited For Closer Job

This year at the Winter Warm-Up, manager Mike Shildt said the Cardinals might not have an official closer, which may sound startling to some, but hey — at least it’s not as bad as last year’s Winter Warm-Up, when it was announced the closer would be Luke Gregerson.

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Cardinals Bring Back The Blues, But With A Modern, 'St. Louis' Twist

For more than a year, a jersey colored by the past draped in Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III’s office as he tried to wrap his mind around a style that had been abandoned in the 1980s, and he was perfectly comfortable leaving there.

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Keith Hernandez On His Cardinals Career, The Modern Game, & A Mets Trade That Never Was

As someone who has co-authored a recent baseball memoir, I can tell you that for a book of this kind to resonate with the audience, the author needs to accomplish four things:

Sporting News

1980 Meetings Crucial To Brewers' 1982 Success

Before the Brewers and Cardinals met in the 1982 World Series, they met at the '80 Winter Meetings.

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How Mike Caldwell Recovered From Cardinals Rejection

In his spring training stint with the Cardinals, Mike Caldwell appeared to be a pitcher whose career was in decline. Shelled early and often, Caldwell showed no signs of developing into what he would become: a 20-game winner who would torment the Cardinals in the World Series.

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How Tim Raines Tormented Cardinals

Tim Raines played like a Hall of Famer against the Cardinals.

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Hal McRae Discusses Replay, Plays At Second

Hal McRae is out of baseball, retired and living in Bradenton, Fla.

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Whitey Herzog Revisits The Year He Rebuilt The Cardinals

The way Whitey Herzog tells it, it started at Grant’s Farm over braunschweiger sandwiches, a few hands of euchre and, of course, some cold bottles of the family label.

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Why Cardinals Pounced On Athletics Offer For Joaquin Andujar

Heading into the 1985 winter meetings, the Cardinals were willing to trade ace Joaquin Andujar for either a left-handed starting pitcher or a first-string catcher. Imagine their delight when they found a club willing to give them both.

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Todd Worrell, Mike Roarke, & The "Go Crazy" Game

In the game that produced one of the most important Cardinals home runs, an exchange between Todd Worrell and his coach, Mike Roarke, played a critical role in setting the stage for the dramatic finish.

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How Cardinals Held Off Mets In October 1985 Drama

Needing to win one of three games against the Mets to block them from taking a share of first place in the National League East, the Cardinals finally achieved the goal in the finale of an intense October series at St. Louis.

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