Cardinals' Top Five Second Basemen

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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Joe Girardi Out As Yankees Manager After Ten Years

Joe Girardi's tenure as manager of the Yankees has ended, the club announced on Thursday, completing a decade-long run that included a World Series title in 2009 and concluded last week one win shy of a World Series appearance with a seven-game loss to the Astros in the American League Championship Series.

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Joe Girardi To Assess His Future With Family

Within faint earshot of the pandemonium and revelry taking place a few hundred feet away on the Minute Maid Park diamond, Yankees manager Joe Girardi addressed his players on Saturday evening, telling them how proud he was and expressing his belief that even brighter days are ahead for the franchise.

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Why Miller Huggins Left Cardinals For Yankees

Though the Cardinals were cash poor and never had won a National League pennant, their outlook was hopeful in 1917 because the top two leaders of their baseball operations, Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins, were among the best in the business.

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Harry Glenn Died Serving In World War I

Harry Glenn was 28 and deep into a professional baseball career that included a stint with the Cardinals when he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War I. Soon after being assigned to the Aviation Mechanic Training School in St. Paul, Minn., Glenn contracted pneumonia and died, a month before the war ended.

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World Series History Is Not On Cubs' Side

On one hand, the Chicago Cubs are due not only to make the World Series but to win it. The number of years since they achieved the first is 71. The second number is 108 and counting.

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Rogers Hornsby Grew Up In A Hurry With Cardinals

Rogers Hornsby was a 19-year-old scrawny shortstop from Texas when he was promoted from the lowest levels of the minor leagues to the Cardinals 100 years ago.

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Mike Matheny Picks Up 300th Career Win As A Manager

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It’s not likely that Mike Matheny has been as dramatic in addressing his team over the last few years, but the St. Louis Cardinals manager has received a similar effort from his troops. Sunday’s 2-1 victory earned the skipper his 300th career win.
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Ten Hall Of Fame Managers & Their Cardinals Connections

Tony La Russa and Joe Torre bring to 10 the number of managers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame who either played for or managed the Cardinals. Three of those 10 did both.

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Red Schoendienst, A Man Ahead Of His Time

Red Schoendienst has represented traditional Cardinal baseball so long that many people aren’t aware that, as a player, he was something of an innovator. In particular, a couple of things that today seem either standard practice — like switch-hitting — or novel — moving rightward along the defensive spectrum — were features that the old redhead was incorporating into his game as he broke into the majors in the 1940s.

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The Cardinals & Pythagoras

In my recent research endeavors I’ve been looking at some more historical things related to the Cardinals. One offshoot was taking a quick look at the relationship between the various actual records and Pythagorean records. The following is a quick synopsis of what I found. First, how did the two records relate on a yearly basis. The following chart summarizes

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Cardinals Leaders Of The 1910's

During the teens in the last century several things happened that were important to the Cardinals and their future. First was the Robison brothers both died and left the team to Helene Britton who became the first woman owner in MLB history. She in turn sold the team to local owners who sold it to Breadon. Branch Rickey came into the fold and so did Rogers Hornsby. So, while the Cardinals were the only team not to win a pennant in the NL during the teens, the pieces were coming together to begin the ascendancy of the Redbirds to the top of the NL and eventually the World Championship.

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Whitey Herzog Follows Top Cardinals Managers To Cooperstown

With Whitey Herzog’s well-deserved selection to Baseball’s Hall of Fame announced Monday, six of the seven Cardinals managers with the most career wins with the club are or are committed to be in Cooperstown.

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