The season has begun and I haven’t updated OA for many months. You see, last night I took photos at the Springfield Cardinals home opener for the Springfield Daily Citizen, an online-only news source where I freelance. I accompanied a…
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To be honest I’d never interviewed a major league player before, at least not while he was up in the big leagues. Cousin Jerry played for the Yanks, of course, but he was a prince of a man, and baseball…
Pictured: me trying to think of baseball topics to write about while the world is falling apart … (No, no, it’s the lovely Irving Lopez.) But seriously … The Cards are trying to make up time lost to covid and…
Best pals and 2018 MLB draft picks Justin Toerner and Albee Weiss were both in minor league camp when Covid-19 shut down baseball in March 2020. Toerner, a Cardinals right fielder, was in Jupiter, Florida, while Albee, a left fielder…
Like many Cardinal farmhands, first baseman John Nogowski was in Jupiter, Florida, for spring training. Unlike many of his former teammates, he was playing for the major league club. He appeared in 14 games for the Cards this spring and…
Jupiter St. Louis Cardinals’ pitching prospect Austin Warner, who split last season between AA-Springfield and AAA-Memphis, was playing at minor league camp in Jupiter, Florida, when spring training was shut down. He wasn’t totally surprised. March Madness was supposed to…
These uniforms. I just can’t. It’s the belts. The stocking caps on the birds. The candy cane bats. The lights! Here are some non-Carpenter pix from Xmas in July. by
Matt Carpenter visited Springfield to play third base for the Baby Birds and gather his wings to fly back to St. Louis. He went 0-21 in five games. Next – to Memphis (AAA)! A slideshow from July 26 – night…
Just a few kids trying to make it big … by
