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Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:06 am
by Adam2
Who is your favorite non star, scrub, bench guy, forgotten number 5 pitcher in Cardinals history?
Mine is Felix Jose. At the time we had a foreign exchange student from Honduras living with us. She thought Jose was cute so she had his cards and a poster in her room, so as a family we cheered for him
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:12 am
by rockondlouie
Tommy Herr
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:21 am
by rbirules
So Taguchi
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:25 am
by sikeston bulldog2
Can Andy Van Slyke count. Or Ray.
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:25 am
by Ozziesfan41
Rex the wonder dog hudler
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:30 am
by 12xu
Kenny Oberkfell, who went to Collinsville High School, about 15 miles from my hometown. He was undrafted out of high school and went to Belleville Area College(now SWIC) where he hit .400 in the spring of 1975 and was named to the first-team squad of the NJCAA All-America team. On May 4, 1975 – his 19th birthday – Oberkfell signed with the Cardinals as an amateur free agent about 48 hours after his final game with Belleville Area College.
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:31 am
by rbirules
I'd say that's pushing it. Granted Van Slyke wasn't an all-star until after he left the Cardinals, he was still a 3x all-star.
I thought about Ray myself. He made one all-star game and was far from a scrub or bench player (until his return to the Cardinals in 2004, one of the reasons that is my favorite team ever).
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:33 am
by Cardinals4Life
Fernando Tatis
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:34 am
by OldRed
12xu wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 08:30 am
Kenny Oberkfell, who went to Collinsville High School, about 15 miles from my hometown. He was undrafted out of high school and went to Belleville Area College(now SWIC) where he hit .400 in the spring of 1975 and was named to the first-team squad of the NJCAA All-America team. On May 4, 1975 – his 19th birthday – Oberkfell signed with the Cardinals as an amateur free agent about 48 hours after his final game with Belleville Area College.
Good choice. Herzog once said Oberkfell was a player who didn't need coached.
But he attended Highland High School. And played college baseball at the University of Southern California (USC).
Are we talking about the same player?
https://www.baseballbiographies.com/ken ... d-in-1992/
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:49 am
by ecleme22
I made it a point to answer this question without looking at others' answers...
1. Bob Tewksbury
2. Bernard Gilkey
3. Pags
4. So Taguchi (he maybe #1 for me).
5. Pedro Guerrero
6. Gregg Jefferies.
I probably have more...
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 08:57 am
by Adam2
ecleme22 wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 08:49 am
I made it a point to answer this question without looking at others' answers...
1. Bob Tewksbury
2. Bernard Gilkey
3. Pags
4. So Taguchi (he maybe #1 for me).
5. Pedro Guerrero
6. Gregg Jefferies.
I probably have more...
Met Bernard Gilkey at the St Louis Amateur Sports Hall of Fame induction a few months ago. super friendly
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 09:15 am
by scoutyjones2
George Hendricks
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 09:21 am
by Whatashame
For me Terry Pendleton. One of my all time favorites.
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 09:37 am
by Ty Webb
OldRed wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 08:34 am
12xu wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 08:30 am
Kenny Oberkfell, who went to Collinsville High School, about 15 miles from my hometown. He was undrafted out of high school and went to Belleville Area College(now SWIC) where he hit .400 in the spring of 1975 and was named to the first-team squad of the NJCAA All-America team. On May 4, 1975 – his 19th birthday – Oberkfell signed with the Cardinals as an amateur free agent about 48 hours after his final game with Belleville Area College.
Good choice. Herzog once said Oberkfell was a player who didn't need coached.
But he attended Highland High School. And played college baseball at the University of Southern California (USC).
Are we talking about the same player?
https://www.baseballbiographies.com/ken ... d-in-1992/
Not sure where that site got their info but according to baseball reference Oberkfell went to Collinsville High and BAC/SWIC
https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... ke01.shtml
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 09:44 am
by Cranny
Bob Tewksbury
Re: Your Favorite NON STAR Cardinal?
Posted: 16 Oct 2025 09:51 am
by FrankTheTank
Taguchi was the best, dude loved to play the game, and was always working hard and smiling.
Jose Oquendo? Dude was everywhere, and seemed to never do anything great, but a lot of things well enough.
Steve Kline? He seemed to be a little crazy but always got guys out.
John Tudor seemed unhittable for a minute there.
Gilkey had some terrific seasons, and was always underrated.
Ozzie Canseco?
