Cardinals Viewed Johnny Lindell As Possible Power Source

Johnny Lindell faced the Cardinals in a World Series as a Yankees outfielder and in a regular season as a pitcher for the Pirates and Phillies. He also played for the Cardinals for a couple of months when they sought power for their lineup.

RetroSimba

Why Cardinals Put Out Welcome Mat For Three Defectors

After saying adios to the Cardinals, pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin and infielder Lou Klein returned from exile three years later and helped the club challenge the Dodgers in a down-to-the-wire National League pennant race.

RetroSimba

Preacher Roe: Cardinals Prospect Became A Nemesis

The 1943 Cardinals figured they had plenty of quality left-handed pitching. What they needed most was cash.

RetroSimba

Stan Musial: Classy Nemesis Of Bob Rush

Bob Rush gave up 176 home runs in his big-league career. Stan Musial hit more of those than anyone.

Retro Simba

90 Things To Love About Stan Musial

On the grand occasion of Stan Musial's 90th birthday Sunday, we offer our own special gift: a literary cake, topped with 90 reasons why we love The Man, or one for each year:

STL Today

Arkansans Star In Baseball Few At Time

Someone on the phone the other day bemoaned what he called the "paucity" of Arkansas products in the front ranks of current big-league baseball players.

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Sully Baseball: All Time Home Grown Team Vs. All Time Acquired Team (Part Something)

Pittsburgh Pirates
Former St. Louis Cardinals Listed: Bobby Bonilla, Dick Groat, Andy Van Slyke, Babe Adams, Dave Giusti, Matty Alou, Mike LaValliere, and Harvey Haddix.

Toronto Blue Jays
Former St. Louis Cardinals Listed: Todd Stottlemyre, Pat Hentgen, Mike Timlin, Tom Henke, and Manny Lee.

Los Angeles Dodgers
Former St. Louis Cardinals Listed: Fernando Valenzuela, Willie Davis, Mickey Owen, Pedro Guerrero, Reggie Smith, Dazzy Vance, Claude Osteen, Preacher Roe, and Eddie Stanky.

Cincinnati Reds
Former St. Louis Cardinals Listed: Eric Davis, Vada Pinson, Rawly Eastwick, Will McEnaney, Chris Sabo, Johnny Edwards, Paul Derringer, Pedro Borbon Sr., and Clay Carroll,

In Memory Of Former Cardinals: 2008

Our annual feature remembering 17 former St. Louis Cardinals that passed away during the past year.

The Birdhouse

Reaching Beyond The Stars

8. Jon Garland, starter. "Gives you 200 innings, 30 starts, has shown a slight decline, makes mistakes over the middle of the plate, but when he gets on a roll, keeps you in a lot of games," said an AL GM. Garland is only 29, is durable, and could be even better with the right pitching coach. Think Dave Duncan in St. Louis.

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Where does Wood go? He's close to Nolan Ryan in Texas and hails from the Dallas area. Milwaukee, St. Louis, Oakland, Atlanta, Cleveland, the Mets, and Tampa Bay could all be suitors.

Boston Globe

You Could Look It Up: Spit & Polish

I received some requests to talk about a couple of southpaw pitchers, Preacher Roe and Herb Score, who were called up to a higher league in recent days, and it's my pleasure to oblige, as both make for fascinating stories. I'll start with Roe now and get to Score in the next installment, and I solemnly promise to turn it around faster than I typically do with these things.

Baseball Prospectus

Riffs: Considering The Matt Holliday Deal

While reading the coverage of the deal sending Colorado Rockies outfielder and recent Cardinals-target Matt Holliday to Oakland — from the news of the trade, to the players headed to Denver, to Drew Litton’s cartoon — one thing stands out.

Birdland

Preacher Roe Passes Away

Left-hander Preacher Roe, a five-time All-Star who pitched for the Dodgers in three World Series, died Sunday night from colon cancer. He was 92.

MLB