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The Cardinals played in Dodger Stadium for the first time the weekend of May 18-20, 1962. They felt right at home. The Cardinals swept the three-game series, receiving complete-game wins from each of their starting pitchers, and Stan Musial stroked a historic single, surpassing Honus Wagner to become the National League all-time hits leader. Now, [...]

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Stan Musial and Derek Jeter, two of the classiest players in big-league history, share at least one other trait: Each was able to hit at an unprecedented level at an age when most are winding down their baseball careers. This year, Jeter, the Yankees’ shortstop, joined Musial as the oldest major-league players since 1900 to collect [...]

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Discovered at a tryout camp in Greensboro, N.C., at age 18 in the autumn of 1934, Enos Slaughter made a rapid rise through the Cardinals’ system. From almost the first day Slaughter arrived at the Cardinals’ major-league spring training site in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1938, manager Frankie Frisch deemed the rookie St. Louis’ starting right fielder. Confident and talented, Slaughter [...]

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When Lou Brock began the Cardinals’ half of the first inning with a hit in six consecutive games in 1974, it was an indicator he was headed for a special season. Thirty-eight years later, Rafael Furcal is the first Cardinal to achieve the same feat as Brock. Could it mean Furcal also is headed for [...]

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Another indicator of how special a hitter Ted Simmons was is the number of four-hit games he had for the Cardinals. Simmons achieved four hits in a game 19 times as a Cardinal. He was a catcher in 18 of those games and played left field and catcher in another. When Yadier Molina had four [...]

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When a player hits a home run to end a game, as Cardinals third baseman David Freese did in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, it’s special. When a pitcher hits one, it’s especially unusual. In the spring 2012 edition of The Baseball Research Journal, produced by the Society for American Baseball Research, the [...]

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