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96 years ago today, Grover Cleveland Alexander and Billy Southworth led the Cardinals to the first World Series game win in recognized franchise history.

After falling to the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the 1926 World Series behind a complete-game, three-hit performance by Herb Pennock and two RBIs from Lou Gehrig, the Cardinals turned to 39-year-old veteran Grover Cleveland Alexander, commonly called Old Pete Alexander. Now in his 16th major-league season, Alexander had already cemented his place in baseball history, leading the league in wins six times – including 33 wins as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1916 – and leading the league in innings pitched seven times.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/03/14/ ... outhworth/

Jesse "Old Pop" Haines didn’t single-handedly beat the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the 1926 World Series – it just seemed that way after he homered and pitched a complete-game shutout in a 4-0 win.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/03/16/ ... eries-win/

Tomorrow will mark 11 years since Chris Carpenter outdueled Roy Halladay in a 1-0 Cardinals win to send St. Louis to the 2011 NLCS:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/09/06/ ... -the-nlcs/

Even crazier, Ryan Howard tears his Achilles in the final out of the game and the Phillies were never quite the same after that.

On this date in 1969, the Cardinals made the trade that changed baseball history when they agreed to send Curt Flood, Tim McCarver, Byron Browne, and Joe Hoerner to the Phillies for Dick Allen, Jerry Johnson, and Cookie Rojas. Instead of reporting to the Phillies, Flood sued to eliminate the reserve clause:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/06/17/ ... ve-clause/

remembirds wrote: ↑06 Oct 2022 11:42 am Even crazier, Ryan Howard tears his Achilles in the final out of the game and the Phillies were never quite the same after that.

It was the Phillies’ last playoff game, until today.

On October 9, 1926, the Cardinals clobbered the Yankees 10-2 to pull within one win of the first World Series championship in franchise history:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/03/17/ ... es-game-6/

On this date in 1934, Dizzy Dean threw a shutout and Joe Medwick started a riot as the Gashouse Gang won Game 7 of the World Series:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/06/26/ ... es-game-7/

On this date in 1926, Grover Cleveland Alexander got out of a seventh-inning jam and earned the save to win the Cardinals' first World Series championship. Though rumors emerged that Alexander was still drunk from celebrating his Game 6 victory, numerous teammates swore that Alexander was stone-cold sober as he saved the day:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/03/18/ ... ies-title/

On Oct. 10, 2011, Albert Pujols homered, hit three doubles, and drove in five runs as the Cardinals won Game 2 and evened the NLCS:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/09/10/ ... -the-nlcs/

11 years ago today, Fernando Salas, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski, and Jason Motte combined for four shutout innings of relief in a 4-3 NLCS Game 3 win over the Brewers. Check out the full story below:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/09/11/ ... ame-3-win/

On this date in 1967, Bob Gibson pitched the Cardinals past the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox to win Game 7 of the World Series:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/07/08/ ... in-game-7/

Who cares here besides a few people like myself and you?

remembirds wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022 13:14 pm On this date in 1967, Bob Gibson pitched the Cardinals past the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox to win Game 7 of the World Series:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/07/08/ ... in-game-7/

He only gave up 3 hits, struck out 10, and hit a home run!

How much would he be worth today?

thetank2 wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022 16:07 pm Who cares here besides a few people like myself and you?

Depends on the day and the story, I suppose. Since I've started writing these, I've been interested in seeing how people react to certain stories and players more than others. This year, by far my most popular story has been about Roger Maris's trade to the Cardinals, and I would have thought most people wouldn't remember that Maris even played for the Cardinals. I knew Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith stories would be popular, but the response to stories about Bob Forsch has been far better than I expected.

Even if there isn't much interest in some of the stories, I enjoy going back and researching some of these periods in Cardinals history, and I almost always learn something that I didn't know or didn't remember.

37 years ago today, rookie Vince Coleman's season ended when Busch Stadium's automated tarp ran over his legs prior to Game 4 of the NLCS:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/10/04/ ... mans-legs/