If, as expected, the Cardinals have shortstop Rafael Furcal, outfielder Carlos Beltran and first baseman Lance Berkman in their Opening Day lineup April 4 against the Marlins, it will mark the first time in 18 years St. Louis has started a season with as many as three switch-hitters among its regulars. With Joe Torre as manager, the [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Will 2012 trio rate with Cardinals’ all-time switch-hitters?
Posted in Games, Hitters on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
2011: a year of titles, turnarounds, turmoil for Cardinals
Posted in Bloggers, Games, Hitters, Managers on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In participation with a United Cardinal Bloggers project, here are my picks for the top five Cardinals stories of 2011: 1. Cardinals win 11th World Series championship Winning a World Series title remains a rare and special achievement. So even in a year of major personnel news for the Cardinals (manager Tony La Russa retiring. [...]
Mike Matheny saw first-hand Carlos Beltran at his best
Posted in Games, Hitters, Opponents, Records on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny should be quite familiar with the talents of his team’s most recent acquisition, outfielder Carlos Beltran. Matheny caught in all seven games (six as a starter) for St. Louis in the 2004 National League Championship Series and thus had a close-up view as Beltran, then with the Astros, produced one of the best [...]
Cardinals were victims of historic homers by Gil Hodges
Posted in Games, Hitters, Opponents on December 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Gil Hodges hit two of the most important home runs of his career against the Cardinals. Hodges, a first baseman who played 18 seasons in the big leagues with the Dodgers and Mets, fell three votes shy of being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Dec. 5 in voting by the 16-member Golden Era [...]
Top 10 facts about Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran
Posted in Hitters on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Free-agent outfielder Carlos Beltran, 34, who has agreed to a two-year contract to join the Cardinals, is a six-time National League all-star who has had nine seasons of 20 home runs or more and eight seasons of 100 or more RBI. A switch-hitter who has played for the Royals, Astros, Mets and Giants, Beltran was the first [...]
Ozzie Smith cheered Barry Larkin’s best personal feat
Posted in Games, Hitters, Opponents, Records on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Barry Larkin played shortstop with distinction for the Reds from 1986-2004, but for most of the first half of his career he was overshadowed by the Cardinals’ Ozzie Smith. In a classy twist, Smith witnessed and cheered Larkin’s greatest individual feat on a baseball field. Smith won the Gold Glove Award among National League shortstops in each [...]
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