Negro Leagues' Memory Lives On At Stars Park

At the corner of Market Street and Compton Avenue, nestled next to Harris-Stowe State University’s baseball field, sits a black plaque that details a large part of St. Louis baseball history.

St. Louis Official Site

MLB To Celebrate 100th Anniversary Of Negro Leagues In 2020

Major League Baseball will celebrate the founding of the Negro Leagues — and such stars as Cool Papa Bell, Buck O’Neil, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige — during the 2020 season.

Fox Sports Midwest

With A Presidential Pitch, Baseball Gets A Boost In Mexico

The St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and all of Major League Baseball will have one big fan rooting for them when they come together this weekend at Estadio de Béisbol de Monterrey — Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador.

USA Today

Ted Simmons Is Best Switch-Hitting Catcher All-Time

If Ted Simmons is elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he would become only the second switch-hitting catcher to receive the honor and the first to have played in the major leagues.

RetroSimba

Royale Debuts Art Honoring Cool Papa Bell

It’s a party tonight at the Royale on South Kingshighway, but also an art unveiling to honor hall of famer Cool Papa Bell. Royale owner and part-time historian Steven Fitzpatrick Smith says he discovered something right next door to his bar.

KMOX

Rene Lachemann Reminisces About Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige

Rockies coach and longtime baseball veteran Rene Lachemann feels fortunate to have learned of pre-integration baseball from one of the greatest witnesses and participants -- Hall of Famer Satchel Paige.

Colorado Official Site

Brock Pemberton & His Unusual Cardinals Connections

Brock Pemberton played in one of the most bizarre games involving the Cardinals. He also played for one of the most bizarre Cardinals affiliates. Yet Pemberton never played for the Cardinals.

RetroSimba

How Vince Coleman, Willie McGee Left Cubs In Dust

In an unusual play that involved a Penguin, a Bull and Vince Coleman establishing a major-league rookie record, the Cardinals stole four bases on one pitch in a game against their archrivals, the Cubs.

RetroSimba

The Night Lou Brock Broke The Record For Steals In A Season

On the night he broke the record for stolen bases in a season, Lou Brock triggered a wide range of emotions. Cool Papa Bell was delighted. Maury Wills was melancholy. Bob Boone was bitter.

RetroSimba

'Cardinals Of Cooperstown' Updated With Tony LaRussa, Joe Torre, & Tim McCarver

Back in 2010, local sports historian Greg Marecek and former Globe-Democrat sports editor Myron Holtzman gave St. Louis fans “The Cardinals of Cooperstown,” a coffee-table record of Redbirds enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Post-Dispatch

How Ernie Banks Got Away From The Cardinals

It’s no secret that the St. Louis Cardinals had an interest in signing Ernie Banks when he was still playing for the Kansas City Monarchs. The Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer is one of three Hall of Famers to be born on January 31st, along with the pioneering Jackie Robinson and strikeout king Nolan Ryan.

Redbird Rants

Sculptor Harry Weber Crafts Collectors Item Statues Of Stan 'The Man' Musial

Harry Weber has crafted two sculptures of Stan Musial and collectors are able to purchase them. Weber is a well-known sculpture and has done many famous sculptures including Cardinals statues in the Cardinals Plaza of Champions Series – 1998 – 2003. Two-thirds life-size action figures of the ten St. Louis Hall of Fame players: “Cool Papa” Bell, Lou Brock, “Dizzy” Dean, Bob Gibson, Rogers Hornsby, Stan Musial, “Red” Schoendienst, George Sisler, Enos Slaughter and “Ozzie” Smith outside Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO.

STL Sports Page

Teen Cardinals Fan Honored For Breaking Barriers Essay; Scouting Showcase Delivers Unique Opportunity

Jennifer Wayland attended Game 3 of the World Series on Saturday night at Busch Stadium along with her parents, Denise and Jeff, and her younger sister Lindsey.

St. Louis Official Site

Deep Time Baseball Venues In St. Louis

The collective memory of the Cardinal Nation only goes back so far. If all you know is what you hear and read in the normal course of being a fan, recorded baseball history started at Sportsman’s Park in the 20’s. Everything before that has mostly faded into the mist. But consider that, at the time, St. Louis fans supported two Major League teams, and had for some time. So where did they come from? Let’s have a look at the ooze which gave life to the primordial fans.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Quincy Trouppe's Career Not About Numbers

The official record shows that Quincy Trouppe had a brief and thoroughly unmemorable career.

The Georgia-born backstop opened the 1952 season as a member of the Cleveland Indians and appeared in only six games before being demoted. He finished out the campaign with the organization's Indianapolis farm club (mentoring young pitchers such as Herb Score) and never again appeared in organized baseball.

MiLB Official Site

Cooperstown, NY Beckons Cardinals Fans

This small village in upstate New York, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, is much more than baseball's grand shrine.

STL Today

The Other Other St. Louis Ballclub

not the browns, not some antecedent of a major league team like the perfectos. the st. louis stars played from 1922 to 1931: throughout that time, one of the greatest baseball players ever, james "cool papa" bell played centerfield for the stars. and yet i wouldn't have been able to identify him or tell you much of anything about him until a week or so ago when i got the idea to do a series on the negro leagues and their role in st. louis baseball.

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