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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Cardinals swept series in initial visit to Dodger Stadium
Posted in Games, Hitters, Opponents, Pitchers, Records on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
At 37, Stan Musial, Derek Jeter hit like stars in prime
Posted in Games, Hitters on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Cards rookie Enos Slaughter set torrid extra-hit pace
Posted in Games, Hitters on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Hot leadoff hitting helped Lou Brock earn steals record
Posted in Games, Hitters on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Ted Simmons excels at 4-hit games as Cards catcher
Posted in Games, Hitters on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
How Dizzy Dean did his David Freese impersonation
Posted in Games, Hitters, Pitchers on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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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