Monday, October 22, 2012
The Giants beat the Cardinals 9-0 in Game 7 to end the Redbirds' 2012 season.
There will be no World Series in St. Louis this season. There will be no parade down Market Street, no 12th world championship and no rematch of the 2006 Fall Classic. Monday night in San Francisco the Cardinals hopes of a repeat of 2011 were ended at the hands of the Giants. Just like in 1996, the Cardinals, with a new manager, had a 3-1 lead in the National League Championship series. And, just like in '96, the Cards failed to get win No. 4, losing in Game 7 in a blowout. The Cardinals were done in by a series of miscues and the inability to get a big basehit. But, credit the San Francisco, the Giants had to play perfect to come back and did just that. The loss in California closes the book on an interesting season for the Cardinals…
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Relive the thrill of the Cardinals' 2011 World Series win through the tweets of fans throughout the season.
Whether you're a serious baseball fan or a data nerd (or both), these clear and colorful graphics of St. Louis tweets about the Cardinals during the 2011 World Series are for you. Infuz, a creative digital agency owned by Jason Fiehler, mined through the hundreds of thousands of tweets about the Cardinals within a 50-mile radius of St. Louis city from Feb. 1, 2011 to Nov. 3, 2011. "By telling the story of the season through the conversations on Twitter we can start to see the living, breathing soul of the Cardinals as seen through the eyes of its fans," said O'Fallon resident Brad Hogenmiller, who oversaw the project as Infuz's director of social media, on the company's blog. "Twitter presents us with a new channel of discussion, not …
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Cardinals player said he's humbled by huge statue of self in Westport Plaza.
First basemen Albert Pujols and his wife Deidre Pujols thanked swarms of Cardinals fans coming out to Westport Plaza Wednesday, where officials unveiled a bronze 10-foot, 1,100-pound statue of the baseball player about 11 a.m. "I don't even know what to say...," Pujols told the crowd, describing the experience as very humbling. The anonymously commissioned statue sits in front of Pujols 5 Grill, Pujol's restaurant. Pujols also talked about Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa's retirement. He said La Russa had been like a dad to him, and a mentor. Pujols said he will miss La Russa, yet wished him the best. Pujols fans came from across St. Louis County and across the Mississippi River to the unveiling. Syl and Judy Biermann of Town and Country …
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Each World Series title has a unique and special story line. This one was no different.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one must be worth about a million. I have been lucky enough to now sit in on six World Series in my own modern era (starting back in 1982). No, I was not there for the Gas House Gangs championship in 1926. I’ve now seen World Series play from the stands, the press box and the streets outside the stadium. Each offered its different views and unique perspectives. Fans in hotel bars and tail gate parking lots revere their Cardinals as much as those who paid $20,000 for one seat in the prized box area. I’ve covered the Olympics, the Pan American Games; the NCAA Final Four and countless state prep championships. Each event has its own story line and unique set of circumstances and values. This …
Saturday, October 29, 2011
"The Pujols Family Foundation wanted to get this up while Albert is still a Cardinal,” the sculptor said.
A bronze statue of St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Albert Pujols will be unveiled Wednesday 11 a.m. at Westport Plaza. Sculptor Harry Weber said the statue shows Pujols as a humanitarian, not necessarily as an intimidating baseball player. Weber said his bronze sculpture of Pujols is a bit unusual, in that the buyer picked the pose—not the sculptor or subject of the artwork. “I didn’t pick it, Albert didn’t pick the pose, his foundation didn’t pick it, the Cardinals didn’t pick it,” Weber said. “The donor. . .wanted to honor Albert not as a great baseball player, but as a great humanitarian." The at 11 a.m. Wednesday outside at in Maryland Heights. about the 10-foot tall 1,100-pound statue.) Weber said probably five people in the world …
Thursday, October 27, 2011
After hitting .363 in 1971, Joe Torre shared a cheap apartment in Crestwood and carpooled to the stadium to save money. He made the decision to postpone World Series Game 6.
Joe Torre, the former Braves and Cardinals slugger and the former Braves, Cardinals, Yankees and Dodgers manager was in town as one the top executives of Major League Baseball. Seeing Torre and reading quotes from him brought back some fond memories. I don’t know Torre. I first started following Joe when he was a catcher with the Milwaukee Braves. His older brother, Frank Torre had been the first baseman for the Braves. When Frank retired he went to work for Rawlings, headquartered here in St. Louis. Frank was interviewed regularly before games and on the early form of sports talk shows. Beause of Frank, I started rooting for Joe, except when the Braves played the Cardinals. Joe became a Cardinal in 1969 and moved to third base. In 1971 …
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The local South-West Stars draw from players from the Parkway school district, among other areas. Some of their games are played at Parkway West.
There was once a time in St. Louis when American Legion baseball was the standard for summer action on the diamond. With the rise of traveling “select” teams over the past decade, Legion baseball has lost some of its luster. Despite these select teams drawing more and more players, often for a hefty fee, one organization that remains as strong as ever is the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. “SLABA is a really, really good league,” said Grayling Tobias, head coach of the local South-West Stars 18-and-under team. “There have been some really good players go through the SLABA organizations. There is a very good tradition and history in SLABA.” The Stars draw players from the Parkway school district, Kirkwood and some of the city …
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Missouri Charger baseball program, which is playing at a national tournament this week, focuses on more than America's pastime.
Teaching the fundamentals of the game is a key value of many youth baseball programs, but the Chesterfield-based Missouri Charger baseball program goes much further. “The mission of our organization is to provide a fun and safe environment to develop baseball players,” Missouri Charger President and Founder Tom Mitchell said. “But we also want to develop things like character, growth and honor.” The Chargers have a 12-and-under team for 11 and 12-year-olds, a 10-and-under team for 9 and 10-year-olds, and a 9-and-under team for 8 and 9-year-olds. Mitchell said he hopes to develop players for high school baseball. “We want them to be able to hit for average, hit for power as well as run, field and throw,” he said. This week, the 12-and-under…
Friday, July 1, 2011
There will be 24 teams in action and 50 games played by the end of Sunday at Blanchette Park, C&H Park, Parkway Central, St. Charles CC, and Lindenwood.
Two weekends ago, Mother Nature wreaked havoc on what was supposed to be one of the biggest and best Elite Level summer baseball tournaments the St. Louis area would host this summer, with a series of rainstorms that made almost every ball field in the area unplayable for an entire weekend. Diamond Sports Promotions had put together the event, featuring 10 top summer club teams playing in a tournament that would earn the winner a berth in the DSP World Series in Bloomington, IL at the end of July. But Mother Nature interfered, dropping buckets and buckets of rain on St. Louis and St. Charles and washing away the whole tournament. This weekend, however, DSP has put together what is quite possibly the biggest and best summer baseball …
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