100 Things Cardinals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know) - Softcover

Goold, Derrick; Wainwright, Adam

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ISBN 10: 1629376493 ISBN 13: 9781629376493

Verlag: Triumph Books, 2019

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Most St. Louis Cardinals fans have taken in a game or two at Busch Stadium, have seen highlights of a young Ozzie Smith, and enjoyed Matt Carpenter&;s salsa-induced hot streak in 2018. But only real fans have visited &;Trinket City,&; know the origin of the Redbird logo, or understand the significance of the number 1.12.

In this revised and updated edition of 100 Things Cardinals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, author Derrick Goold collects every essential piece of Cardinals knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining, enlightening, and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom. 

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Derrick Goold is an award-winning reporter and baseball writer who has covered the Cardinals for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 2004. He has been a finalist for the Associated Press Sports Editors&; top beat writer in any sport multiple times and has won the award twice. A past president of the Baseball Writers&; Association of America, he contributes to Baseball America and MLB Network and hosts the Best Podcast in Baseball. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and son.

A three-time All-Star, Adam Wainwright has pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals since 2005. He resides in St. Louis, Missouri.

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100 Things Cardinals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By Derrick Goold

Triumph Books LLC

Copyright © 2019 Derrick Goold
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62937-649-3

Contents

Foreword by Adam Wainwright, 
Introduction, 
Acknowledgments, 
1. Meet Me at Musial, 
2. Red Schoendienst, 
3. Attend Opening Day in St. Louis, 
4. Cy Young and the Birth of the Cardinals, 
5. King Albert, 
6. Stan "the Man" Musial, 
7. Yadier Molina and the Night Shea Went Silent, 
8. Organization Men, 
9. Enos Slaughter, 
10. See the Cardinals' Treasures, 
11. "The Greatest Comeback Team in the History of Baseball", 
12. The Hidden Championship, 
13. Ozzie Smith, 
14. Ken Boyer, 
15. The Knothole Gang, 
16. As Window Closes, the Core Delivers, 
17. Dizzy Dean, 
18. "It's Gotta Be the Salsa", 
19. The Origin of the Redbird Logo, 
20. Lou Brock, 
21. The Pioneer Who Covered Center, 
22. Toss a Seat Cushion, Twice, 
23. The Voice of the Cardinals, 
24. "Go Crazy, Folks!", 
25. Rogers Hornsby, 
26. Old Pete and the "Final Crisis", 
27. Visit Sportsman's Park, 
28. Visit Robison Field, 
29. The Architect of the Cardinals, 
30. Rickey's Farm System: The Seeds of Championships, 
31. A Dash of Pepper, 
32. Visit Trinket City, 
33. The Gas House Gang, 
34. Deans Ignite Gas House Gang, 
35. Pepper Martin: The Wild Horse of the Osage, 
36. The Mississippi Mudcats, 
37. Joe "Ducky" Medwick, 
38. The "Kidnapping" of Flint Rhem, 
39. Bruce Sutter, 
40. The Little General, 
41. El Líder, 
42. The Daring, Underdog Debut of the Swifties, 
43. Roomies and Rivals at Lindell Towers, 
44. The Streetcar Series, 
45. Bob Gibson, 
46. One Last, Mad Dash, 
47. Gold Standard, 
48. A Rain Check on Musial's Crown, 
49. Meet Butch Yatkeman, 
50. Uncle Charlie, 
51. Wonderful Willie, 
52. Police Action at Sportsman's, 
53. The Owners, 
54. Tom Alston: The Trailblazer, 
55. Frankie Frisch: The "Pilot Light", 
56. "Hollywood's" Blockbusters in the Clutch, 
57. The Tragedies, 
58. Visit Spring Training, 
59. "Sunny Jim" Bottomley's Brightest Day, 
60. The Keeper of the Cardinal Way, 
61. Stan Musial Society, 
62. Mike Shannon: Native Son and Iconic Voice, 
63. The 50,000-Watt Blowtorch, 
64. "A Commitment to Heart", 
65. Jaster Zeroes In on the Dodgers, 
66. The All-Star Games, 
67. Putting "Lonborg and Champagne" on Ice, 
68. Gibby's 17-K October, 
69. Too Grand: Tatis' Big Inning, 
70. The Big Mac Attack, 
71. Mini-Mac's Three Big Whacks, 
72. A Double Dose of Dean, 
73. Two True Cards, 
74. Bake's Early-Morning Run, 
75. Musial's Accidental 3,000th Hit, 
76. The Great Rivalry and Its Greatest Game, 
77. Visit Double A Springfield Cardinals, 
78. Visit Triple A Memphis Redbirds, 
79. Meet Fredbird, 
80. The White Rat: Whitey Herzog, 
81. Steal Home with Glenn Brummer, 
82. Whiteyball Runs Away with Title, 
83. No-No Doubting Forsch, 
84. Clark Clinches in the Clutch, 
85. The Call, 
86. Laga Has Left the Building, 
87. The Secret Weapon, 
88. The Train Rescue of 1911, 
89. The Big Numbers: Rogers Hornsby's .424, 
90. The Big Numbers: Bob Gibson's 1.12, 
91. The Big Numbers: Steve Carlton's 19, 
92. The Big Numbers: Lou Brock's 118, 
93. Hard-Hittin' Mark Whiten, 
94. One Pitch, Four Steals, 
95. Musial's Dynamic Doubleheader, 
96. La Russa Leaves on Top, 
97. Rick Ankiel's Second Act, 
98. A Stay of Execution, 
99. Farewell to Busch, 
100. Welcome Home, 
Selected Bibliography, 

CHAPTER 1

Meet Me at Musial

For generations of fans, the crossroads of Cardinals Nation was Walnut Street and Broadway in downtown St. Louis, signified not by the concrete monolith of a stadium in the background but by a 10'-tall statue that stood as their cultural epicenter. The bronzed batter became the traditional meeting point for the devoted. Many trips to Busch Stadium for a baseball game started with the universally understood invitation: "Meet me at the Musial statue."

A statue of Stan Musial has stood sentry outside the Cardinals' home ballpark for parts of six decades. Far more than a totem to the team's best and most-revered player, it is a landmark, the magnetic north of Cardinals Nation by which almost all visits to the ballpark are oriented. Engraved into it are words Cardinals fans can readily recite, like the opening stanza of a beloved nursery rhyme for the red-dressed masses:

Here stands baseball's perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight.

The words are from former baseball commissioner Ford Frick, said when Musial retired from the game. Musial's last day in cleats was the inspiration for the local chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America to raise money for the gift of a statue to place outside the ballpark. The "Perfect Knight" statue was unveiled in 1968, and even then it was a polarizing depiction of the Hall of Famer. It was abstract, showing a broad-shouldered, narrow-waist, wispy-legged Musial tucked into his trademark batting stance. The face was too angular to be true to Musial's. Fans and media groused. Musial hoped the original plan, which included an autograph-seeking kid, would be used to soften a potentially pretentious tribute. Sculptor Carl Mose favored the interpretive take on the Cardinals great.

While acceptance of the statue's aesthetics differs, its location has long been embraced as a beacon for far-flung fans and locals alike.

And it's the fans who make the monument.

"The fans are what makes St. Louis," longtime Houston Astros star Craig Biggio once said. "The fans are still going to be here. Yankee Stadium is its own entity. Fenway Park is. Wrigley Field is. But St. Louis is known for its fans."

The Cardinals were the first major league team west of the Mississippi River, and for much of the 20th century they were the furthest team south as well. That gave them access to draw from an unprecedented expanse of America. The reach of the club's flagship radio station, clear-channel KMOX/1120 AM, helped amplify the interest, taking Cardinals baseball well beyond their time zone. The Cardinals' roots are so deep in some areas that even decades after rapid expansion and cable television obliterated baseball's geographic boundaries, the club had radio affiliates in eight states. A Harris Poll taken in 2007 revealed the Cardinals as the fourth-most popular team in the country, trailing only popularity powers New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves. But the Cardinals were easily the most beloved team in the Midwest and the overall favorite of the 18- to 29-year-olds age group.

"They love to see the team win, but they have this history here in St. Louis, they have a way of celebrating baseball," said Scott Rolen, a onetime Cardinals third baseman. "They love coming to the ballpark. It's a family affair still, and they come here to watch baseball. They really have a lot of respect for the game and they believe that this is their team."

The depth of the franchise's history and the breadth of the franchise's reach made the bronze Musial an obvious and fitting place for an informal town square to develop. It is a destination point for pilgrimages from across Cardinals Nation. No journey to the...

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• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629376493
• ISBN 13: 9781629376493
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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