If talking about two storied franchises, one need look no further than this year’s NLCS combatants. The National League was founded in 1876. Something I did not know until today: The NL is, according to Wikipedia, “the world’s oldest current professional team sports league.” St Louis had two other teams represent the city before the [...]
In Jenifer Langosch’s wrap up post from Game One of the NLDS, she mentioned the St Louis Cardinals have never lost a series in this round after winning the first game. You know this to be true; Jen is one of the better writers out there. I found that stat interesting and wanted to look [...]
Every month, the United Cardinal Bloggers (UCB) get together for a group project. This month, we conducted interviews of other members. I was lucky enough to draw Joe Schwartz of STL Cup of Joe. Joe is a pharmacy student at Butler University who writes in his free time. He was gracious enough to give us [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, Matt Carpenter is having a season. With his fifth-inning double today, he became just the fourth Cardinals second baseman to reach 40 doubles in a season. The other 3 you’ve probably heard of: Rogers Hornsby, Frankie Frisch, Red Schoendienst. Hall of Famers all. Schoendienst was the last guy to do [...]
So here we go again. As you no doubt have heard/read by now, Jack Clark has accused Albert Pujols of steroid use. We were overdue for this accusation; after all, Biogenesis is currently in the news. The last time Albert faced these allegations was right after the Mitchell Report broke. Pujols is an Angel, so [...]
Dan’s post will report out on the game action, but given the demoralizing way in which Thursday’s game ended I wanted to point out a few things. No Cardinal has ever saved more than 23 consecutive games in a row. The record belongs to Jason Isringhausen, set from 29 June 2007 – 9 April 2008. [...]
It’s been quite a while since I took part in a UCB Project. As the Cardinals are on their way to Oakland for the first time since 2007, it seemed a good opportunity to rejoin the conversation. For a different perspective on June’s topic, take a look at recent posts by Dan and Dathan. There [...]
A year ago, the Reds had the second-best record in the National League. They won the NL Central by 9 games, and had the best pitching staff in the league by team ERA and WAR. They could be excused for believing, before this season started, they had the inside track to another Division Crown. After [...]
Back when the earth was young, and the only way to follow a Midwest team from the West Coast was via box scores and newspaper clippings from extended family, the trek to the ballpark was almost a religious event. MLB Extra Innings and MLB.tv have put live game action just a click away, but the [...]
In 2011, as you well remember, the St Louis Cardinals completed an improbable run to their 11th World Series victory. I’d been writing a blog called Stan Musial’s Stance since just before the team’s improbable run to the 2006 World Championship. It seemed the perfect time to walk away, a blog career bookended by Victory. [...]
