October 1, 1946: Extra time: Cardinals take NL playoff opener over Dodgers
Going into the last day of the 1946 baseball season, Brooklyn…
October 7, 1944: Musial’s blast helps Cardinals level Trolley Car Series at 2-2
The 1944 baseball season in St. Louis was the same as it had…
October 15, 1946: Country’s Mad Dash: Enos Slaughter scores winning run for Cardinals in Game 7
“Slaughter’s great gallop from first to score will rate with…
October 13, 1946: Joyous Cardinals hail gameness of Brecheen and Slaughter in Game 6
On Sunday, October 13, 1946, the St. Louis Cardinals faced the…
October 7, 1946: ‘The Cat’ Harry Brecheen purrs for Cardinals in Game 2
Despite the loss to the Boston Red Sox in the 1946 World Series…
August 10, 1945: Browns win slugfest at the bottom of the American League
There remained the matter of a ballgame on August 10, 1945. Two,…
October 6, 1946: Rudy York’s homer lifts Red Sox to win in World Series opener
The Boston Red Sox had not won a World Series since 1918, almost…
April 17, 1945: Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder, makes major-league debut for St. Louis Browns
On April 17, 1945, just two weeks before Adolf Hitler committed…
October 8, 1944: Big Mort and big blasts lift Cardinals in Game 5
The Streetcar Series was even. By winning 5-1 the previous day,…
October 9, 1944: St. Louis wins! Cardinals defeat Browns in Trolley Car Fall Classic
“Most of the crowd at the series seemed to be eager for the…
October 6, 1944: Browns’ Jack Kramer subdues the Redbirds in Game 3
While the nation was still heavily engaged in World War II, two…
October 5, 1944: O’Dea’s pinch-hit single leads Cards to Game 2 win in 11th
“They looked more like a softball team than a baseball team,…
October 4, 1944: Galehouse, Browns surprise Cardinals in opener of ‘Trolley World Series’
Ohio Governor and Republican candidate for vice president John…
October 1, 1944: Finally, the Browns! St. Louis captures first American League pennant
Chet Laabs of the St. Louis Browns is carried off the field…
July 2, 1944: Max Lanier pitches marathon gem for Cardinals as Hopp delivers winner in 14th
The St. Louis Cardinals entered July 1944 with an eight-game…
October 11, 1943: Spud Chandler, Yankees bring World Series championship back to New York
If you were listening carefully, you might have picked up on…
October 10, 1943: Marius Russo’s one-man show leads to Yankees’ win in Game 4
The 1943 World Series was a rematch of 1942’s fall classic,…
September 30, 1942: Yankees’ Red Ruffing wins World Series opener in St. Louis
Usually the opening game of a World Series generates a great…
October 1, 1942: Cardinals rookie Johnny Beazley evens World Series in Game Two
Despite St. Louis’s last-inning heroics the previous day, the…
June 4, 1943: Two of a Kind: Mort Cooper tosses second straight one-hit shutout
St. Louis held its collective breath when reports emerged at…
May 30, 1942: New York Black Yankees defeat Birmingham Black Barons on Decoration Day at Sportsman’s Park
On a warm Saturday afternoon in May, with the nation’s list…
August 25, 1942: Marty Marion’s dash preserves Mort Cooper’s 14-inning gem
Described as “the largest throng to see a night game in the…
September 17, 1941: Stan Musial makes his major-league debut
In spring training before the 1941 season, the St. Louis Cardinals…
September 13, 1941: Dodgers’ Whit Wyatt shuts out Cardinals 1-0 in pennant-race thriller
Historian Bill James has called the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers “that…