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.

Post-Dispatch

How Larry Walker Hit Three Homers In A Game At St. Louis

Larry Walker, who completed his career with the Cardinals, had one of his greatest games as their opponent.

RetroSimba

Bobby Tolan & The Saga Of The Senior League

Bobby Tolan, who played on championship clubs with the Cardinals and Reds, was a champion as a manager in the Senior Professional Baseball Association.

RetroSimba

Adam Wainwright To Nolan Gorman: "Might As Well Be Pro"

When Peoria Chiefs third baseman Nolan Gorman spent his spring in Florida with the Cardinals he clearly picked up a few things — how to hit monster home runs, the golden rule of staying relaxed at the plate and a new, more professional way to sign autographs.

Chiefs Blog

Lets Celebrate The Takeout Slides Of Hal McRae

Takeout slides! They have been rather drastically redefined in advance of the upcoming season, you know. Such structural changes may have you pining away for the days in which a base-runner could ritually abuse the pivot man while all of America stood with him. Let's go back to those days and appreciate the takeout stylings of gentleman baseball-ist Hal McRae. Come with us, won't you?

CBS Sports

Hal McRae Discusses Replay, Plays At Second

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

St. Louis Official Site

Rick Ankiel & The Decision That Altered His Career

Disheartened by what he described as an erosion of his spirit and altering of his personality, Rick Ankiel ignored the skeptics and boldly made a decision that was best for him and his baseball career.

RetroSimba

Will Red Sox Trade For Cole Hamels?

It was suggested to Ben Cherington Monday that he set up a website with a daily statement on Cole Hamels. Cherington was far more interested in watching a bullpen session by 21-year-old lefthander Eduardo Rodriguez, who in six starts after being acquired for Andrew Miller had a 1.59 ERA and 39-8 strikeout-walk ratio in 37 1/3 innings. And opened John Farrell’s eyes at the January Rookie Development Program.

Gammons Daily

Finally, A Royals Celebration In Kansas City

Tipsheet was in Kansas City for the heyday of Royals baseball, back when that franchise -- and not the Cardinals -- was considered baseball's model operation.

Tipsheet

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.

Post-Dispatch

Adam Wainwright Is Cardinals' Fearless Leader

During one of his early days in the majors, back before he made a name for himself with a curveball or threw his name into Cardinals’ history, Adam Wainwright sat with several teammates as they dutifully autographed items.

Post-Dispatch

Hitting For Power & Making Contact

Baseball's best power hitters rarely possess elite contact ability. Over the past 40 years, which hitters have best paired power with the ability to not strike out?

Beyond The Boxscore

Wednesday's Haven't Been Kind To Pirates

Had to be a Wednesday, did it?

Twenty-one years in exile from baseball’s championship tournament, a spot in the National League championship series just nine solid innings away, and the Pirates draw a Wednesday.

Post-Dispatch

What MLB Is Really Risking With New Replay Proposal

At every Major League Baseball game, there are essentially two officials who can influence the outcome and the history of the game with their call.

Bird Land

Yadier Molina, Allen Craig, Matt Carpenter Walk On Lofty Path; The George Brett Factor; The Ryan Braun Factor

Yadier Molina, Allen Craig and Matt Carpenter are daring to go where only Cardinals Hall of Famers have gone.

Post-Dispatch

Kansas City Baseball, A Royal Pain

I say this with all sincerity... and if I'm fibbing, may Hal McRae throw a desktop phone at my head ... but I wish the Kansas City Royals had a better baseball team. I wish Kansas City baseball fans had something to look forward to.

Bernie Bytes

Edward Mujica Leads Journeyman Closers

Cardinals fireballer Jason Motte, who led the National League in saves with 42 last year, is scheduled for Tommy John surgery on Monday. Mitchell Boggs, who was tabbed as the St. Louis closer coming out of Spring Training due to Motte's elbow issues, was shipped to Triple-A last week.

St. Louis Official Site

Prospect Retrospective: Cesar Cedeno

When an extremely young player comes to the major leagues and performs well, there is a natural (and generally accurate) assumption the player will continue to improve over time. In an extreme case like Mike Trout in 2012, who became the best player in the league at age 20, the future seems unlimited, his ceiling historic. But it doesn't always turn out that way. Young players don't always improve.

Minor League Ball

The Most Overrated Players Of All-Time

few weeks ago Adam Darowski wrote a wonderfully entertaining article for High Heat Stats celebrating the very underrated career of right-handed pitcher Rick Reuschel. In his piece,Adam suggests that Reuschel's legacy has been unfairly marginalized for several reasons-- but mainly pitching in front of terrible defenses and insignificant ballclubs. I followed up on that theme a few days later by attempting to show what Reuschel's ERA+ would have looked like had he played in front of average defenders for the entire length of his career, and along the way I found myself increasingly interested in the dilemma Reuschel presents.

Beyond The Boxscore

Feel Pity For Royals Fans, Not Scorn

Your cyber-correspondent lived in Kansas City back in the early 1980s when it was quite a sports town.

STL Today