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The Greatness Of Rick Ankiel

Sports On Earth | Posted 05.13.2013 | Sports

The Houston Astros released Rick Ankiel on Thursday evening, likely signaling the end of the 33-year-old’s major league career. If so, it was an ugl...

Another Cardinals Pitcher Throws A Gem

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM | Posted 05.12.2013 | Sports

ST. LOUIS — Shelby Miller retired the last 27 batters Friday night, finishing with a one-hitter. A day later, the St. Louis Cardinals rookie sat...

Pitcher Retires 27 In A Row

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM | Posted 05.12.2013 | Sports

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Shelby Miller gave up a single to start the game then nothing else. Not a walk or a hit batter. No one even reached on an error. ...

Cubs Blow Yet Another Late Lead To Cards

AP | JAY COHEN | Posted 05.09.2013 | Chicago

CHICAGO -- There were the four double plays, one in every inning from the fifth to the eighth. Mix in a wild pitch, an error and a shaky outing from a...

Wood Outpitches Lynn In Cubs Win Over Cards

AP | JAY COHEN | Posted 05.08.2013 | Chicago

CHICAGO — Carlos Beltran and Jon Jay drove in two runs apiece, and the St. Louis Cardinals capped an impressive trip with a 5-4 victory over the...

WATCH: Boy With Autism Delivers Amazing First Pitch

Posted 04.22.2013 | Sports

Joseph Dever delivered, with style. To commemorate Autism Awareness Night on Saturday, the Philadelphia Phillies invited a young boy named Joseph ...

'Never Make Predictions... Especially About the Future': My 2013 MLB Picks

Ben Heisler | Posted 04.01.2013 | Sports
Ben Heisler

Everyone thinks of Yogi Berra as the quintessential baseball quote. He made you think, laugh and occasionally want to launch your head into a brick wall. But Casey Stengel, manager of 3,766 games in the Big Leagues never wasted any time getting to the point

A Perfect Poem for Stan Musial

John Lundberg | Posted 04.27.2013 | Arts
John Lundberg

Spring is here again. Let baseball be played in its cathedrals, and let our childhood gods stay gods.

Kyle Lohse Could Become This Generation's Curt Flood

Ben Berkon | Posted 04.27.2013 | Sports
Ben Berkon

Lohse, who is coming off a terrific 2012 campaign, where he hurled a career-best 134 ERA+ and 3.76 K/BB over 211 IP, still remains a free-agent.

Baseball's Dumbest Cliche

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.20.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

A fan base that is told to expect a World Series victory every year, and to see anything else as a failure is going to end up an angry disgruntled group, largely because they have been sold a bill of goods by the team's management.

Carp's Career May Be Over

AP | JIM SALTER | Posted 04.07.2013 | Sports

ST. LOUIS — Chris Carpenter, one of the best clutch pitchers in the storied history of the St. Louis Cardinals, may have thrown his final pitch....

The Most Memorable Play Stan Musial Never Made

Landon Jones | Posted 03.25.2013 | Sports
Landon Jones

Musial, who died this week, was our Galahad, our Achilles, our Hector -- a modest, decent man who did more than anyone to raise St. Louis to its reputation as a good sports town where the fans even clap for the opposing team's players.

Frankly, Lance, I Don't Give a Damn

Patricia McGuire | Posted 03.25.2013 | Sports
Patricia McGuire

Our faculty spend endless hours searching for ways to teach today's college students about honor and integrity, about the importance of embracing an honor system that abhors lying, cheating and stealing. Armstrong is the latest poster boy for dishonorable behavior.

My Father and Stan the Man

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

The real reason my father became a Cardinals fan is simply because of Stan Musial. Musial, who died over the weekend at the age of 92, had not uncoiled his famous swing in a meaningful baseball game in just short of half a century. During that time a legend grew around Stan Musial.

Translating Stan Musial's Stats To Present Day

FanGraphs | Posted 01.22.2013 | Sports

With Stan Musial passing away over the weekend, Jesse did a nice workup of his career numbers, noting that Musial stands as one of the best hitters to...

Remembering Stan Musial

Randy Turner | Posted 03.23.2013 | Sports
Randy Turner

Stan Musial retired after the 1963 season, greatly appreciated in the heartland, but never receiving anywhere near the same national attention as his peers, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio.

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 03.23.2013 | New York
Len Berman

Super Bowl 47 is set for Sunday February 3rd in New Orleans: San Francisco is an early five point favorite over Baltimore. Hockey season is underway and A library in Australia is moving all Lance Armstrong books to the fiction section.

Stan Musial Dies At 92

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM | Posted 03.21.2013 | Sports

ST. LOUIS — No last name necessary. A slew of batting titles. Corkscrew stance. Humble. A gentleman. All-around good guy....

Sore Losers: Giants Hit With Homophobic Tweets From Cardinals Fans

Posted 10.24.2012 | Gay Voices

The World Series is truly an exciting time for baseball fans nationwide. While the playoffs will inevitably produce a few sore losers along the way, a...

World Series Time: We Are Cavemen

Terry Lyons | Posted 12.23.2012 | Sports
Terry Lyons

If you're a baseball fan and have a similar dream, the folks at MLB have taken the concept and multiplied it a thousand times over with their MLB Fan Cave, a place in time and space that welcomes baseball fans.

Giants Reach World Series With Another Improbable Comeback

AP | JANIE McCAULEY | Posted 10.23.2012 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's players, soaked to the core in a driving rain, began running around the field slapping high-fives with fans. Sergio R...

It All Goes Wrong For Cardinals

AP | JOSH DUBOW | Posted 10.23.2012 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma moved to his right, only to watch the line drive off Hunter Pence's broken bat inexplicably change direct...

Giants Reach World Series

AP | JANIE McCAULEY | Posted 12.22.2012 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO — In a postseason full of twists and turns, the San Francisco Giants are headed back to the World Series after a big comeback agai...

Giants Force Game 7

AP | JANIE McCAULEY | Posted 12.21.2012 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO — Ryan Vogelsong and the San Francisco Giants saved their season once more, pushing St. Louis to a winner-take-all Game 7 in the N...

Back To The Bay

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM | Posted 10.20.2012 | Sports

ST. LOUIS -- Offense has a lot to do with San Francisco's streak of 13 consecutive victories when Barry Zito is on the mound, given they're averaging ...