This Date in Cardinals History

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On November 13, 1968, Bob Gibson was named the National League MVP after he went 24-10 with a 1.12 ERA. He struck out 268 batters over 304 2/3 innings.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/10/11/ ... eague-mvp/

He was 22-9 during the regular season and 2-1 in the WS.

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On November 13, 1968, Bob Gibson was named the National League MVP after he went 24-10 with a 1.12 ERA. He struck out 268 batters over 304 2/3 innings.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/10/11/ ... eague-mvp/

He was 22-9 during the regular season and 2-1 in the WS.

And if Curt Flood hadn't slipped in the mud Gibby might have been 3-0. Busch Stadium also might have never gotten astroturf, which means we might not have ever had Whiteyball. Funny how one little incident can have an impact on the future.

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On this date in 1986, Todd Worrell was named the National League Rookie of the Year after leading the majors with 36 saves.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/10/30/ ... -the-year/

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On this date in 1991, the Cardinals traded pitcher Ken Hill to the Expos for first baseman Andres Galarraga. After breaking his wrist in the second game of the season, Galarraga hit .243 with 10 homers and 39 RBIs in his lone season with St. Louis ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2020/11/25/ ... galarraga/

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On this date in 1991, the Cardinals traded pitcher Ken Hill to the Expos for first baseman Andres Galarraga. After breaking his wrist in the second game of the season, Galarraga hit .243 with 10 homers and 39 RBIs in his lone season with St. Louis ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2020/11/25/ ... galarraga/

Ken Hill did well in Montreal, thrice winning 16 games. One of those was the strike-shortened 1994 season where we was on pace to exceed 20 wins and led the league. The Cardinals continued their desperate need for a first baseman, which went unresolved until 1998 with Big Mac then Pujols.

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I've always been strangely fascinated by that period from 1988 after Jack Clark left until McGwire where the Cardinals went through Bob Horner, Pedro Guerrero, Andres Galarraga, Gregg Jefferies, John Mabry, and Dmitri Young at first base. Growing up, I was always baffled as to why other teams had franchise cornerstone studs at first base and we were always settling for someone whose previous team had given up on them (this mostly applied to Horner, Guerrero, Galarraga, and Jefferies, and not so much young players like Mabry and Young).

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On this date in 1974, the Fulton Flash, Bake McBride, was named Rookie of the Year after batting .309 with 30 stolen bases ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/10/31/ ... ear-award/

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On November 27, 1985, Vince Coleman was named the National League Rookie of the Year after leading the league with 110 stolen bases. Over six seasons in St. Louis, Coleman stole 549 bases. He was inducted into the Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2018.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/11/01/ ... ear-award/

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This week marked 33 years since Tom Pagnozzi won his first Gold Glove Award, supplanting Benito Santiago as the National League’s top defensive catcher.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/12/05/ ... e-in-1991/

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See why the Cubs warned Ryan Theriot not to get too comfortable in the batter’s box after he became a Cardinal ahead of the 2011 season ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/11/02/ ... n-chicago/

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On this date in 1948, Stan Musial was named the NL MVP for the third time after he led the league in batting average (.376), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18), RBIs (131), on-base percentage (.450), slugging percentage (.702), OPS (1.152), and total bases (429).

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/11/03/ ... mvp-award/

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A look back at how Lance Berkman signed a one-year, $8 million deal with St. Louis 14 years ago today ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2020/12/04/ ... 11-season/

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Here is the story of the Curt Flood trade. No, no that that one. The first one, which took place on this date in 1957 …

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/11/05/ ... cardinals/

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When the Cardinals signed outfielder Dexter Fowler on December 9, 2016, his five-year, $82 million contract was the largest the Cardinals had ever awarded a player who wasn’t already wearing the birds on the bat.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/23/ ... 16-season/

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On this date in 1980, Whitey Herzog began his rebuild of the Cardinals by signing his former Royals catcher, Darrell Porter, to a five-year contract.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/11/06/ ... ll-porter/

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On this date Dec. 7 , 1941 , Cardinal fans were not discussing baseball . Sadlly, Pearl Harbor was bombed and on Dec. 8th , Pres. Roosevelt said today's date will live in infamy as Congress declared War. U.S. entered WW II

https://www.britannica.com/video/attack ... ona/-18486