Cardinals Taught Ed Sprague How To Become A Pro

The Cardinals gave Ed Sprague a chance to become a professional ballplayer and make a connection with Sparky Anderson.

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How Jim Leyland Became Talent Evaluator For Cardinals

Jim Leyland needed a break from managing, but he wasn’t done with baseball.

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How George Culver Made Cardinals A Mod Squad

George Culver, a dapper dresser who threw a sharp slider, seemed suited for a spot in the starting rotation of the Cardinals until his season unraveled like a spool of cheap threads.

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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.

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How Cardinals Plugged Ted Power Into Starting Rotation

After a rough beginning to his season with the Cardinals, Ted Power recovered and developed into a reliable starting pitcher for them.

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Dazed & Confused: Bernie Carbo & His Cardinals Encore

The return of Bernie Carbo to the Cardinals after a six-year absence was a minor free-agent signing with major consequences.

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How Will McEnaney Returned To Majors With Cardinals

After endangering his life and his baseball career, reliever Will McEnaney sought to make a comeback with the Cardinals.

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Bob Howsam Outfoxed Bing Devine In Vada Pinson Deal

A deal designed to make the Cardinals a surefire bet to win a third consecutive pennant backfired on them and instead helped the Reds develop into the most dominant team in the National League.

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How Cardinals Took A Chance On Tony Cloninger

Tony Cloninger, a prominent National League starting pitcher in the 1960s, was given an opportunity by the Cardinals to extend his major-league career as a reliever in the 1970s, but it didn’t work out.

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Grappling With The Great Question: Is Mike Matheny To Blame For The Cardinals' Struggles?

Cardinals fans have a bad case of Mike Matheny. The symptoms include high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, and an allergic reaction to pitching changes.

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Teams Showing Interest In Ubaldo Jimenez; Greg Holland's Price Tag Still Too High For Clubs; John Lackey Would Pitch For Winning Team, Not Rebuiulding

Two free agent pitchers who could be scooped up next are Ubaldo Jimenez and Scott Feldman. They are drawing interest from teams looking for depth starters. On the relief side, the big name still out there is Greg Holland. In this era of relief pitching, you would think Holland would be desired, but his price tag is keeping teams away.

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Bob Bailey, Al Hrabosky, & Big Drama In St. Louis

Bob Bailey had lots of hits against the Cardinals in his career, but it was an out he made that was most memorable.

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Already A Hall Of Famer, Paul Molitor Wins Manager Of The Year

Twins Manager Paul Molitor, who was elected to the Hall of Fame as a player in 2004, is the second Hall of Famer to be named Manager of the Year. The other was Frank Robinson, the AL Manager of the Year in 1989 for the Orioles. Robinson had been elected to the Hall in 1982.

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Cardinals Were Cure To Ending Slump For Lee May

Lee May, one of the National League’s most consistent sluggers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, hit for both average and power against the Cardinals.

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How Dave LaPoint Got Second Chance With Cardinals

Looking to rebuild his reputation, Dave LaPoint returned to the organization where he felt the most comfortable and had enjoyed his greatest success.

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How Stan Musial Went To Bat For Warren Spahn

In a union of legendary rivals who represented baseball at its best, Stan Musial hired Warren Spahn to be a manager in the Cardinals organization.

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Andrew McCutchen's Down Year Was Likely A Fluke

You can wring your hands. You can shake your head. You can sigh all you want, but I'm shrugging over the Andrew McCutchen of 2016.

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Signing Dexter Fowler Would Be Juicy Narrative For Cardinals

“Stop, Cubs, stop.”

Admittedly not as catchy, but it’s a tune in the heart of many St. Louisans, a lyrical longing that the Cubs’ success will somehow cease.

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Bypassed By The Cardinals, Terry Francona Is Building A Hall Of Fame Resume

The Cleveland Indians are on the way to the World Series, and if you look at his increasingly impressive record, manager Terry Francona is probably on his way to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Mike Matheny Passes 400 Wins, Remains Under Microscope

Before he let rookie reliever Dean Kiekhefer become a grand-slam victim of Jayson Werth in Sunday's loss to Washington, Mike Matheny did something he has done even more often than stir debate about the Cardinals manager's bullpen management.

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