Roger Craig

Roger Craig and “split-finger fastball” will forever be linked…

Mike Cuellar

Mike Cuellar was a four-time 20-game winner for the Baltimore…

Dave Dowling

Caught up in the numbers and derailed by injuries, this promising…

Glen Hobbie

Signed to a Triple-A contract at the age of 19, Illinois-born…

Doug Clemens

Personable, intelligent, and soft-spoken, the athletic Doug Clemens…

Jerry Buchek

When Jerry Buchek was growing up on the south side of St. Louis,…

Ken Boyer

Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as a pitcher, Ken Boyer became…

Lou Brock

"Some in the press and in the stands considered him too casual…

Lew Burdette

Throughout his 18-year major-league career, Lew Burdette was…

Harry Fanok

One of baseball’s eternal debates is naming the hardest-throwing…

Bob Humphreys

“YOU CAN’T MAKE IT!” Bob Humphreys once wrote that in…

Phil Gagliano

Phil Gagliano grew up in a baseball-oriented family. Though his…

Dave Bakenhaster

During spring training before the 1964 baseball season, a photographer…

Ernie Broglio

Some athletes earn disapproval for their failures on the field.…

Charlie James

Some former major-league ballplayers are remembered for hitting…
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Dick Groat

Before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders made “two-sport athletes”…

Vern Benson

“For a man who wants to stay in baseball, being a utilityman…

Bob Gibson

“Hoot, you’re on your way. Nothing can stop you now.” —…

Curt Flood

Curt Flood was a vital cog in the 1964 Cardinals’ world championship…

Jack Buck

On the night of September 17, 2001, a frail white-haired man…

Gussie Busch

For nearly a quarter century, Gussie Busch simultaneously led…

Harry Caray

“The taxi driver, the bartender, the waitress, the man in the…

Bing Devine

Vaughan Pallmore “Bing” Devine, a soft-spoken, modest man,…

Bob Howsam

Bob Howsam would consider himself one of the last of a breed.…