Cardinals Winter League Notebook 11-19-19: Raul Valdes Strikes Out Two Over Seven Scoreless Innings For The Win; Luis Bandes Hits A Solo Home Run; Rangel Ravelo & Jose Adolis Garcia Begin Play In LIDOM

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Why Leaving Cardinals Was Good Break For Chuck Essegian

Chuck Essegian, a Renaissance man who played the violin, studied to be a doctor, became a lawyer, and excelled at baseball and football, began the 1959 major-league season as a Cardinals reserve and ended it as a World Series hero for the Dodgers.

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How Alex Grammas Got A Second Chance With Cardinals

Seeking stability at shortstop, the Cardinals went back to the past in a bid to enhance their future.

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In Memory Of Former Cardinals: 2017

2016 was a relatively quiet year in that only seven former St. Louis Cardinals passed away, the lowest total since I first began preparing these annual reports in 2005. Unfortunately, in 2017, the count increased to nine, including former manager Solly Hemus.

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Ruben Amaro Began Big-League Career With Cardinals

Desperate for a quality shortstop, the Cardinals turned to Ruben Amaro and gave him his first opportunity to play in the major leagues. Amaro fielded splendidly but didn’t hit well enough and the Cardinals quickly gave up on him.

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Ruben Amaro, Sr. Dead At 81

Ruben Amaro Sr. served the Philadelphia Phillies in many roles throughout a life in which he devoted himself to baseball. He was their shortstop for five years, their first-base coach for two seasons, including their 1980 World Series win. And he was a scout too, responsible for bringing players like Julio Franco and Juan Samuel from the Caribbean to Philadelphia.

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Cardinals Played In Korea In 1958

In this Major League Baseball (MLB) season, Oh Seung-hwan became the first Korean to play for the St. Louis Cardinals. But long before Oh became a dominant bullpen arm for the Cards, in fact long before he was born and before any Koreans played stateside, St. Louis got its first taste of Korean baseball.

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Ruben Amaro Jr. Relay's Fathers Lessons To Daughter

Sophia Amaro looked antsy, as any 7-year-old might, while waiting for her father to finish up his work [one day earlier this month]. She wandered around, stood up, sat down, and finally, when her dad had finished, she got to play.

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The Pioneer Rene Arocha

It appeared that the Cuban players had disappeared as prehistoric dinosaurs when he arrived at Florida's beaches, Barbaro Garbey, the first Cuban player of the new generation, which could leave Cuba and play in the majors, who was signed by former Cuban pitcher Orlando Pena on 6 July 1980.

However, the real impact between players of the island, which caused the current stampede into exile, came as another pioneer, Rene Arocha, decided to leave the Cuban National Baseball Team on 10 July 1991 in Miami, after concluded a series of challenges against the U.S. Joint National in Millington, Tennessee. (Translated)

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Bloodlines Run Deep During Draft

They say that baseball runs in your blood.

Those bloodlines were certainly on display during the three days of the First-Year Player Draft, as a slew of "baseball legacies" heard their names called, including several sons, brothers and even nephews of former big leaguers.

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Stan Musial Helped Bring In Ruben Amaro's Father

In 1958, 11 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line, Senior was called up to the Cardinals. He brought Santos into the clubhouse at Sportsman's Park and introduced him to Stan Musial. His father was impressed by Stan the Man, but not so much by the surroundings.

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