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Stan Musial remembered during funeral Mass
Stan Musial was remembered during a funeral and memorial outside Busch Stadium on Saturday as a Hall of Famer and a St. Louis icon embraced by ...
Melvin, Johnson picked as managers of the year
Young rosters, small budgets, limited expectations. No matter. Bob Melvin of the Oakland Athletics and Washington's Davey Johnson won big right away ...
Column: Old baseball hands to match wits in Series
The longer it goes, the messier this World Series is likely to get. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Detroit skipper Jim Leyland smokes ...
Cardinals lose Game 7 of NLCS 9-0 to Giants
Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma moved to his right, only to watch the line drive off Hunter Pence's broken bat inexplicably change directions when the ...
Cardinals beat Giants 8-3 to take 3-1 lead in NLCS
The St. Louis Cardinals are oh so close. They know better than to start celebrating yet. To a man, the defending World Series champions kept their ...
Bochy rejects retaliation talk heading into Game 3
Giants manager Bruce Bochy expects Marco Scutaro to be in his lineup card for Game 3 of the NL championship series, two days after St. Louis slugger ...
Reds extend manager Dusty Baker's deal for 2 years
Reds owner Bob Castellini couldn't imagine Dusty Baker leaving. The 63-year-old manager got a two-year contract extension Monday, giving him another ...
No-quit Cards come back to beat Nats 9-7 in Game 5
In the end, it made sense that Yadier Molina and David Freese would work those key walks, and that Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma would come through ...
Cards score 4 in 9th, beat Nats 9-7, reach NLCS
Carlos Beltran and the never-give-up St. Louis Cardinals began their latest comeback celebration quietly, plucking cans of beer from a blue bin that ...
Cardinals can close out Nationals in NLDS Game 4
Jayson Werth's Washington Nationals were as good as it got during the regular season, compiling a majors-high 98 wins. That doesn't count for much ...
Cardinals beat Braves 6-3 in disputed wild card
Talk about a wild card. This one was just plain wild. Chipper Jones played his final game. The Atlanta fans turned Turner Field into a trash heap ...
Cardinals beat Braves 6-3 in disputed playoff
David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals rediscovered their postseason touch. Chipper Jones and the Braves kept throwing the ball away. And the ...
Cardinals clinch baseball's last postseason berth
Rather than spraying champagne in every direction, the defending World Series champions talked about holding a subdued party if they squeezed into the ...