
Gene Karst: The Cardinals’ First Publicity Man
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George Washington Bradley: St. Louis Hero / St. Louis Villain
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A St. Louis Harbinger: The 1942 Browns
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Before The ‘Bible of Baseball’: The First Quarter-Century of The Sporting News
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The St. Louis City Series
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St. Louis Cardinal Managers: From Huggins to Herzog
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Billy Southworth’s St. Louis Swifties
New York World-Telegram cartoonist Willard Mullin labeled Billy…

The St. Louis Red Stockings: More Than A Footnote
Red Stocking Park in 1875. From Pictorial St. Louis, by Compton…

St. Louis Ballparks
MAJOR LEAGUE PARKS
Sportsman's Park
Location: The block bounded…

Night Baseball Comes to St. Louis
Most people associate the history of night baseball with a few…

Stan Musial: Home Run Champ
Over the course of his long and illustrious big league career,…

St. Louis Stars Win 1930 Series in Seven Games
St. Louis' claim to the 1930 World Championship came not from…

Missouri-Born Major Leaguers
Missouri had been quite proficient over the years in sending…

Count Hoffman’s Last Game
Count Henry Hoffmann hadn't been feeling his old self for some…

New York City, Andrew Freedman, and the Rise of the American League
This article is an excerpt from David Pietrusza's upcoming book…

Eddie Grant: First A Rookie, Always a Veteran
When America issued the call to "Work or Fight" in 1917 to battle…

Bob Berman: ‘I Wouldn’t Change My Name For Anybody’
"STAND UP STRAIGHT!" the old gentleman barked at me. He was a…

For Jack Lang, It’s Been a ‘Hall of a Time’
Jack Lang began covering baseball in this town in 1946, a beat…

Maury Allen: Beat Years
The year was 1947. The place was the shrine in Brooklyn called…

Lou Gherig (sic) at Wrigley Field, 1920
Although Lou Gehrig's name was misspelled, he left 6,000 baseball…

A Park Grows in Brooklyn
Think of Brooklyn and the mind and heart turn to Ebbets Field,…

Bats on Fire
A crowd of 56,508 was on hand to witness a bizarre opening game…

The Other Babe
An Ebbets Field of the mind was the only Ebbets Field I ever…

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