Cardinals Withhold Month Salary From Team

Imagine the uproar if a team decided to withhold a month’s salary from its players due to poor performance. That is exactly what happened on this day in 1900, as the St. Louis Cardinals paid only five players on its roster.

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Ten Hall Of Fame Managers & Their Cardinals Connections

Tony La Russa and Joe Torre bring to 10 the number of managers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame who either played for or managed the Cardinals. Three of those 10 did both.

RetroSimba

Hall Of Fame Introduction Puts Whitey Herzog Among Game's Best

Once Whitey Herzog officially is added to the list of Hall of Fame inductees on Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., there will be 20 men in the Hall who achieved most — if not all — their baseball fame as managers.

STL Today

Managerial Golden & Dark Ages

As readers of my work at THT have hopefully noticed, I have considerable interest in managers. Heck, I wrote a book on them—Evaluating Baseball's Managers—due out later this year.

The Hardball Times

The Path To Cooperstown: The Catchers

For my fourth annual THT column on position players and the Hall of Fame, I’m taking an in-depth look at a group not represented on this year’s BBWAA ballot and with only one post-1920 representative on the Veterans’ Committee ballot (Joe Torre, who got just 29.7 percent of the vote, well short of the 75 percent of required): the catchers. This column, Part 1 of 2, will focus on the catchers with primes of eight years or more—the core of any Hall of Fame discussion—and Part 2 will deal with the rest.

The Hardball Times

Does Ted Simmons Belong In The Hall Of Fame

The San Diego Padres recently hired Ted Simmons as their bench coach for 2009. Over at Ducksnorts, I quipped that if they could turn the clock back 30 years, the Padres would have their catching problem solved as well. One of my readers took it a step further and wondered why Simmons never got more serious consideration for the Hall of Fame.

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