St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

Gene Karst: The Cardinals’ First Publicity Man

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St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

George Washington Bradley: St. Louis Hero / St. Louis Villain

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St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

A St. Louis Harbinger: The 1942 Browns

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St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

Before The ‘Bible of Baseball’: The First Quarter-Century of The Sporting News

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St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

The St. Louis City Series

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St. Louis's Favorite Sport (SABR 22, 1992)

St. Louis Cardinal Managers: From Huggins to Herzog

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SABR 22 convention program cover

Billy Southworth’s St. Louis Swifties

New York World-Telegram cartoonist Willard Mullin labeled Billy…
SABR 22 convention program cover

The St. Louis Red Stockings: More Than A Footnote

Red Stocking Park in 1875. From Pictorial St. Louis, by Compton…
SABR 22 convention program cover

St. Louis Ballparks

MAJOR LEAGUE PARKS Sportsman's Park Location: The block bounded…
SABR 22 convention program cover

Night Baseball Comes to St. Louis

Most people associate the history of night baseball with a few…
SABR 22 convention program cover

Stan Musial: Home Run Champ

Over the course of his long and illustrious big league career,…
SABR 22 convention program cover

St. Louis Stars Win 1930 Series in Seven Games

St. Louis' claim to the 1930 World Championship came not from…
SABR 22 convention program cover

Missouri-Born Major Leaguers

Missouri had been quite proficient over the years in sending…
SABR 22 convention program cover

Count Hoffman’s Last Game

Count Henry Hoffmann hadn't been feeling his old self for some…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

New York City, Andrew Freedman, and the Rise of the American League

This article is an excerpt from David Pietrusza's upcoming book…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Eddie Grant: First A Rookie, Always a Veteran

When America issued the call to "Work or Fight" in 1917 to battle…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Bob Berman: ‘I Wouldn’t Change My Name For Anybody’

"STAND UP STRAIGHT!" the old gentleman barked at me. He was a…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

For Jack Lang, It’s Been a ‘Hall of a Time’

Jack Lang began covering baseball in this town in 1946, a beat…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Maury Allen: Beat Years

The year was 1947. The place was the shrine in Brooklyn called…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Lou Gherig (sic) at Wrigley Field, 1920

Although Lou Gehrig's name was misspelled, he left 6,000 baseball…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

A Park Grows in Brooklyn

Think of Brooklyn and the mind and heart turn to Ebbets Field,…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Bats on Fire

A crowd of 56,508 was on hand to witness a bizarre opening game…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

The Other Babe

An Ebbets Field of the mind was the only Ebbets Field I ever…
Baseball in New York City (SABR 21, 1991)

Dollars and Sense

JANUARY 23, 1938 — Joe Cronin, manager of the Boston Red Sox,…
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