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Before the rally squirrel and before Game 6, the Cardinals needed to rally vs. Cliff Lee to win Game 2 of the NLDS. Tomorrow will mark 12 years ...

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One year ago today, we bid farewell to Pujols and Molina ...

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See how two players discarded by their former teams helped the Cardinals claim the first World Series win in franchise history ...

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23 years ago today, Rick Ankiel's career took a sudden and drastic turn ...

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Remembirds wrote: ↑
October 3 23, 7:51 am
23 years ago today, Rick Ankiel's career took a sudden and drastic turn ...

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2020/07/11/ ... -the-yips/

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I was watching that game live (as were many of you) and still 23 years later it's not clear to me what happened.

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See how Whitey Kurowski's 9th-inning home run lifted the Cardinals to the 1942 World Series title over the Yankees ...

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Tomorrow will mark 12 years since the classic 2011 NLDS Game 5 pitchers' duel between Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay ...

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On this date in 1969, the Cardinals traded Curt Flood to the Phillies. Flood refused to report to Philadelphia, instead opting to challenge baseball's reserve clause and changing the course of baseball history ...

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Tomorrow will mark 89 years since the 1934 Gashouse Gang won Game 7 of the World Series. Not only did Dizzy Dean start experimenting with a knuckleball in the middle of the game, but Joe Medwick was ejected and the Detroit fans nearly rioted ...

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See how the Cardinals defeated the Browns to clinch the 1944 World Series, the so-called "Trolley Car Series" ...

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