Just some Baby Birds preparing the fly, fly away to St. Louis: the city with basepaths paved with gold and per diems that can pay for sushi instead of burgers. You can have it all … by
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Such a game when your team falls behind 5-1 into the 9th. I wondered what I might do later that night, still overly caffeinated from several days of updating my website in the hopes of drawing eyes and wallets. Next…
Sometimes your side gets picked off twice in one game, losing baserunners when you’re struggling to give them a base to begin with. Then you’re smiling like you don’t mean it. Then it happens again: (The other pix made it…
Strange – I scheduled this post at the end of May so I could fill out the site for each Monday I was gone. This was the final day. Now he’s somewhere else; listed as released from his Cardinal affiliate…
Conner Greene was sent up to Triple-A Memphis, and won the AAA National Championship with the Redbirds. Now he’s playing in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, still throwing as hard as he can, as he once told me, breathlessly, after…
Got to take photos of Adam Wainwright in Springfield during a rehab assignment with the AA Cardinals. I’m still trying to figure out how to write about his presence. Photos, for now. Pictured with, as Wainwright called him, future superstar…
Guests in town. I wonder what it’s like to be these ones. Maybe it’s worth trying things instead of wondering. I tend to think this way. by
St. Louis Cardinal outfielder Randal Grichuk made a brief stop at Double-A Springfield on July 19. He tied the game with a 3-run home run en route to an 8-4 win. Then he signed autographs and posed for pictures. Seems…
June and July at Hammons Field, Springfield, MO (Just a few of the thousands …) by
Kolten Wong flew with the Baby Birds for a few days this month. Flap, flap. He chased popups at full-speed, and joked with his teammates. by