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Post by daktari68 on Jun 1, 2024 20:29:43 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 2, 2024 6:31:37 GMT -6
TIDBITS
At 6 ft 8 inches, Lee Guetterman and Mike Naymick were the tallest players to wear Cardinal uniforms. Pat Ankenman was the shortest at 5 ft 4 inches.
It was 108 degrees on July 14, 1936, when the Cardinals beat the Dodgers 11 to 7 in St. Louis.
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Post by captbudman on Jun 2, 2024 8:56:57 GMT -6
Too bad, although I appreciate you sharing you knowledge and history. I have a book on old automobiles my grandfather gave me when I was young. Jay Leno is one of the few people around who would probably recognize most of the car companies... I love the old cars. Wish I still had all mine, 68 Roadrunner, 69 Hemi Charger, 36 Chevy half ton, 55 chevy 1 ton. I used to roam around in junk yards snatching horn caps off the steering wheels. They all had the name of the company on them, Studebaker, Packard, Hudson etc... I pulled this eagle emblem off an old car that read Dodge Brothers, it was cool looking. I had about 30 of these caps and emblems laid out on my ping pong table in the basement trying to figure out what to do with them when this guy installing ductwork spotted them and offered $70 for the lot. Being a poor teenager, I sold them. I was a Mopar man -- several Challengers (the "real" ones), a 440 six pack 'Cuda hauled out of North St. Louis (six pack was in the trunk, shaker bolted to the hood, and spun bearings), and 70 Charger. I wish I still had them now. I'll move on, before a Moderator throws this into Gumbo...  |
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Post by Cool Papa Con on Jun 3, 2024 4:58:41 GMT -6
I love books like that although I have a lot of them that involve history itself. I have several books on battles. A couple are on historical world battles and others on the Revolutionary and Civil War. I too enjoy reading about history. I had a bunch of Civil War magazines but they met the same fate as my baseball book. I particularly like reading about the American west in the 1800s, specially the outlaws and gunfighters. Missouri played a big part in that field, we were known as the " Outlaw State." The head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency was quoted as saying, " Missouri has produced more train robbers than any state in the Union." Any suggestions for books on the American West? |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 3, 2024 5:55:33 GMT -6
I too enjoy reading about history. I had a bunch of Civil War magazines but they met the same fate as my baseball book. I particularly like reading about the American west in the 1800s, specially the outlaws and gunfighters. Missouri played a big part in that field, we were known as the " Outlaw State." The head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency was quoted as saying, " Missouri has produced more train robbers than any state in the Union." Any suggestions for books on the American West? That series from TIME/LIFE does a pretty good job and there are a couple of magazines I used to subscribe to called THE WILD WEST and OUTLAWS, not sure if they still publish them. |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 3, 2024 6:02:42 GMT -6
On April 4, 2017, Cardinal outfielder Stephen Piscotty took first base after getting hit in the right elbow by Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta. He then stole second base and was hit in the left elbow by a throw from the catcher. He then raced home on an infield hit by Kolten Wong and was hit in the head by a throw from Cubs second baseman Javier Baez.
I bet he was sore all week.
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 4, 2024 6:24:48 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 5, 2024 4:30:51 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 6, 2024 4:55:01 GMT -6
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 7, 2024 6:21:40 GMT -6
Only one pro team in any major American sport has ever won 20 straight games to start the season. The 1884 St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association, an early pro baseball league. 1899 St. Louis Perfectos historyofcardinals.com/1899-st-louis-perfectos/ |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 7, 2024 12:28:20 GMT -6
Khoury League I didn't know it went that far back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Khoury_Association_of_Baseball_LeaguesI remember my first experience in the league. I was born in St. Louis but we moved to California before I was 2 years old. The kids didn't play baseball in the neighborhoods we lived in, they were into skateboards, bicycles and mini-bikes. Me and my brother's main activity was going into other neighborhoods and starting rock fights and dirt clod wars with other kids. We did that just about every day. We then moved back to St. Louis when I was about 9 or 10. I couldn't believe the baseball atmosphere around here in the summer, it was almost like a cult. Everywhere you went people were talking about the Cardinals, you would see old ladies wearing Cardinal caps or shirts. Every school yard had little league games going on. Our new friends asked me and my brother if we wanted to play Indian ball, we never had enough kids to play baseball. I didn't know a damn thing about the game, never had a bat or glove. They let me borrow one of their gloves and asked if I used a lefthander's glove or a righthander's glove. I figured since I wanted it for my left hand I asked for a lefthander's glove. When they found out I threw with my right hand they gave me the proper one. We would play Indian ball when we weren't scrounging round for empty soda bottles. I heard some kids talking in school one year about the little league team they were on and decided to join myself. I was the last kid to sign up so the coach put me in right field. I couldn't hit, run or play field, but thanks to my years as a rock thrower I had a cannon for an arm with pinpoint accuracy. In practice the coach hit one out to me and instead of relaying it to one of the infielders that came out in the grass, I launched a rocket all the way to home plate, the catcher didn't have to move an inch. That must have impressed them because the catcher immediately turned around and was saying something to the coach. When I came back in the coach asked me if I had ever pitched before, I lied and said I did, because I wanted to do more of what I did best, throwing. He had me penciled in to start against this team in Berkley called the Roadrunners where the players would say, " meep..meep " as they ran around the bases. That's when I found out I didn't like pitching, I balked 3 times in one inning. I didn't know what I was doing. When i was sitting on the bench the coach said to me, " don't feel bad, only one of those was a balk, that umpire has his head up his ass." They eventually closed that field down because it was contaminated with toxic soil. As the season went on my hitting improved. At the beginning of the season I had what they refer to as "foot in the bucket" syndrome. Being a veteran of rock throwing wars my first instinct when someone threw something in my direction was to step back so I wouldn't get hit, they kept hollering for me to stand closer to the plate. I was like that kid in Bad News Bears, " no, it'll hurt." The helmets they had us wear were too damn big, I would take a swing and it would spin around on my head and face the wrong way. my first hit was an infield single, probably really an error on the shortstop. The wind was whistling thru that ear hole on the helmet as I scurried to first base. I kept standing on the base and the 1st base coach kept telling me to lead off, not knowing what he wanted, I told him i was batting 8th. Most of the kids on my team had been playing little league for a couple of years so we didn't do too bad, we finished in second place. My trophy says WOODSON TERRACE KHOURY 2nd PLACE MIDGET 1972 That was the year aluminum bats first made their appearance but most kids preferred the wooden ones. The game sure has changed since then. We didn't have tee-ball and parents didn't start brawls. One of my nephew's kids was showing me his trading card with his picture on the front and partial stats on the back. I wish we had those when I played. You got any little league memories ? |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 8, 2024 6:45:10 GMT -6
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Post by stiffy1957 on Jun 8, 2024 7:44:25 GMT -6
Those were the good old days.  |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 8, 2024 14:30:56 GMT -6
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone. Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head. Custer's men were wiped out at the Little Bighorn. The James/Younger Gang were shot to pieces trying to rob the Northfield Bank in Minnesota. And these guys were playing baseball for the St. Louis Brown Stockings. www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1876.shtmlRough looking bunch, they look like they could have rode with the James/Younger Gang. |
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Post by daktari68 on Jun 9, 2024 6:34:29 GMT -6
Max Flack (1890-1975) Suspicious performance in 1918 World Series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_FlackOn July 19, 2006, 80 mph winds ripped through Busch Stadium just after the National Anthem. The strong gusts blew out press box windows, overturned portable concession stands and destroyed the tarp that covers the field. The game was delayed 2 hours and 12 minutes before the Cardinals defeated the Braves 8 to 3. I wasn't there but I remember that derecho, I was without power for days. fox2now.com/news/missouri/on-this-day-busch-stadium-hit-by-derecho-in-2006/ |
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