Cardinals' Top Five Relief Pitchers

Here is Anne Rogers’ ranking of the top 5 relief pitchers in Cardinals history.

St. Louis Official Site

Why Cardinals Thought Wally Westlake Had Right Stuff

When the Cardinals acquired Wally Westlake from the Pirates, he seemed to be the ideal hitter to put pop into the cleanup spot, but it didn’t work out the way they expected.

RetroSimba

Cardinals Nearly Put Stan Musial In Murry Dickson Deal

The Pirates came close to convincing the Cardinals to send them Stan Musial, but settled instead for Murry Dickson.

RetroSimba

Cubs Eager To Clinch Division At Busch; Cardinals Want To Prevent It

It took a little while for the Chicago Cubs to get going this season after ending 108 years of frustration by winning the World Series last fall.

101 ESPN

Spirit Of 1947: Cardinals Sporting Retro Threads Today

The retro baseball caps with the blue shell and stylized interlocking S-T-L were stacked in the St. Louis Cardinals clubhouse this past week — part preview and part to help the players pick their preferred size. Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, who will start tonight’s Civil Rights Game at Cincinnati, asked if he could keep his for a few days.

Birdland

Jaime Garcia & Rookie Records

While Cardinal fans are justifiably excited by rookie starting pitcher Jaime Garcia’s 3-1 breakout on the season, it’s hard to believe he’ll eclipse any of the team’s full-season rookie pitching records. These are a look at Garcia’s numbers through his first five starts, compared to the all-time Cardinal rookie records:

Cardinal Beat

Cardinals Starting Streak Broken At Seven; Not Close To Record

The St. Louis Cardinals’ run of seven consecutive starts of seven innings or more allowing two or fewer runs ended Tuesday night in Arizona. The team record may be 12, set in 1944.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

The Most Unlikely Pitchers To Clinch A World Series

Anyone who reads Sully Baseball knows that I have a strange fascination with the pitcher who closes out the World Series.

Sully Baseball

Four Things About Chris Carpenter & Three About Ted Wilks

Is this the best year Chris Carpenter's ever had? Well, no. But it's an interesting addition to his baseball card. Looking back on his career I was a little surprised to find that his new ERA crown is the first desirable black ink—he led the AL in earned runs in 2000—he's ever gotten, and when I was young and got most of my baseball and basketball information through completing sets from Topps et al that was usually the first thing I looked for.

Viva El Birdos

The Branch Rickey Pirates (Part Five: 1953-54)

Our journey with The Mahatma has taken him to Pittsburgh, then examined his modestly successful first season there. Then, alas, we encountered the disaster of 1952, and the minimal 1953 progress Rickey made in digging out of the pit he'd made for himself.

The Hardball Times

The Branch Rickey Pirates (Part Four: 1952-53)

So far, we've brought The Mahatma to Pittsburgh, then we've followed him through his first, reasonably successful year. Then, alas, we've also examined his second, terrible, year.

The Hardball Times

The Branch Rickey Pirates (Part Three: 1951-52)

In our first installment, we joined the legendary Branch Rickey as he took over the general managership of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the autumn of 1950. Last time, we examined Rickey’s range of actions in his first year in the new job, a period in which he didn't find immediate success, but executed generally sound decisions and appeared to have made progress.

The Hardball Times

The Branch Rickey Pirates (Part 2:1950-51)

As we recall from last time, Branch Rickey was hired as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in November 1950. We summarized the state of the ball club he inherited, both at the level of the big league roster and in the minor leagues.

The Hardball Times

Top Cardinals Teams & The Rookies Of The Year

Jerry Modene looks at the top first-year players on the best St. Louis Cardinals teams of all time, including those who won the Rookie of the Year Award and others who could have.

http://stlcardinals.scout.com/2/726868.html

Scout.com: Counting Down Best Cardinals Teams #2 1944

Our new series counts down the 15 best St. Louis Cardinals teams in the long and storied history of the National League’s most successful franchise. The 1944 edition comes in at number two.

http://stlcardinals.scout.com/2/724008.html