Baseball nicknames. They don't make 'em like they useta. This isn't just Unreal blowing the proverbial smoke. This is documentable fact.www.dksbaseballcards.comIn the old days, baseball gave us Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson. George "Prunes" Moolic. Frank Chance, a.k.a., "The Peerless Leader." As if Honus Wagner wasn't sufficiently kickass in itself, the Pirates immortal was known in his time as "The Flying Dutchman." Ty Cobb was "The Georgia Peach." Walter Johnson was "The Big Train." Te
With Opening Day coming up on Monday, it's appropriate to look back and reflect on our love for the Cardinals. And when it comes to the Cardinals, and the history of this great franchise, there's one name that stands out above all the others. You might know him as the Man.Our Card of the Week
this week comes to us courtesy of my uncle, who lives in West Plains
and sent over a scan of a few cards he had stashed away in his storage
unit. It is a 1961 Stan Musial card by the Topps company.&nbs
Baseball coach Jim Brady has been fighting his bosses in the UMSL athletic department for seven years. And he thought colon cancer was a pain in the ass.
I attended the All-Star Game last night, and I went as both a journalist and a fan. The journalist side of me wanted to see good baseball, interesting stories, and a professional production from the St. Louis Cardinals. The fan side of me wanted to see the National League finally fucking win something, Albert Pujols do something incredible, and the greatest living Cardinal of them all paid tribute to as he so richly deserves. I'll be honest with you. Neither of my sides was satisfied by wha
commons.wikimedia.org​Bill James has called him the perfect player, and this year, the voters apparently agreed. Albert Pujols won his third MVP award today, second in a row, by a unanimous vote. In other news, the sun came up today in the East, much as had been expected. Pujols nearly doubled the point total of the second-place vote getter, Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins. Albert received 32 first-place votes for 448 points; Ramirez garnered 233 points overall.