First Female Owner Helene Britton Blazed Trail With Cardinals

A family walked onto the field at Busch Stadium before the Cardinals game on June 10. Char, Candy, Crystal and Chad Barone hadn't been to a game together for 30 years, but they met on the diamond in honor of an extraordinary woman.

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A Telegram That Changed Baseball History

It is a simple telegram, dated March 24, 1911, stating that Cincinnati Reds owner August “Garry” Herrmann has been requested to be a pall bearer at the funeral of St. Louis Cardinals owner Stanley Robison, who died that morning.

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Cardinals Hall Of Fame Gets Tribute To Women In Baseball Addition

If it is so that behind every good man stands a good woman, the 11-time World Series champion Cardinals have fallen right into lockstep. As a one-year addition to their Hall of Fame and Museum at Ballpark Village, they will add beginning on Friday a new exhibit titled, “Women in Baseball: How They Made History.”

Post-Dispatch

The Greatest Cardinals Of Each Time: Perfectos & Pre-Branch Rickey, 1899-1919

By 1898 the Browns, kings of the American Association, were NL bottom-feeders, and when a bereft Von der Ahe sold out to Frank and Stanley Robison there wasn't enough capital left in the name to avoid a change to the delightfully named fifth-place St. Louis Perfectos, the Frankenstein-ish result of an offseason heart transplant.

Viva El Birdos