Cardinals Hit Jackpot With Hard-Hitting Ray Jablonski

Ray Jablonski was an infielder who couldn’t field or throw well, but he excelled at stroking line drives for extra-base hits and generating large numbers of runs.

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Cardinals Took A Chance On Chuck Stobbs

Chuck Stobbs was a left-hander who made his major-league debut at age 18, pitched for three American League franchises, yielded an epic home run to Mickey Mantle, experienced a streak of 16 consecutive losses and was given a chance to extend his career with the Cardinals.

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Billy Southworth & His Timely Home Run For Cardinals

Three months after he was traded by the Giants to the Cardinals, Billy Southworth hit a home run against his former team, providing the winning run in the victory that clinched the first National League pennant for St. Louis.

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An Amazing Performance By Dazzy Vance Vs. Cardinals

Combining an effective hitting stroke with a strikeout pitch that dazzled a lineup stacked with fellow future Hall of Famers Rogers Hornsby, Jim Bottomley and Chick Hafey, Dazzy Vance gave one of the best individual performances all-time against the Cardinals.

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Stacking Albert Pujols Up Against Other Career Cardinals

Some assessments of the contract situation between Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals suggest the team has lost all negotiating leverage with the player. As such, the club must eventually pay whatever the player demands to keep him, goes this line of thinking.

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Jon Jay At 50 (Games, That Is)

After 50 games, outfielder Jon Jay has the third highest average of any St. Louis Cardinals player since 1920.

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Redbirds Tidbits

The first batting champion in baseball history that wore glasses played for the 1931 Cardinals. Chick Hafey who played Out Field for the Redbirds hit .349 and beat out his team mate Jim Bottomley and the Giants Bill Terry in the closest race in history.

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