Curt Simmons, Dal Maxville (?), Mike Shannon, Curt Flood, Julian Javier, was there a young Steve Carlton there yet or am I mixing decades again?...poor heroic Jim Lonborg.

if I have to win one game to avoid death, I just might have to pick Bob Gibson over Sandy Koufax, despite the nagging from my Rabbi. No one ever was nastier than Gibson, and he could hit. Koufax, maybe the worst hitting pitcher other than Dean Chance.

Yeah, you beat my Sox, but I loved them Cards.

Go Cards!

For sure,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Wucha (sp)?? Another tough rookie ,mowing em down today,,,great outing!!!!! Lets go BUCS!!!!!!o:)

Was a good game for the Cards! Don't know if they have the staff to get by the Dodgers though.

The Buc's future looks very bright with their young staff and they should be one of the front runners next year.

Will be wearing my Cardinals t-shirt when the weekend game(s) is on.

Go Cards!

The shadow, was HELL on the batters, may have given the Cards slight edge, but not much, if any. After all this is the only time of the year it is in that terrible creeping spot in the afternoon.

Loved the old Stadium, haven't been since this one was built, I'm OVERDUE,

but,

WHO designed that new place like that?????

The pitching from both squads has been pretty dayum good.

Same with the Sox/TIgers.

Got any of those old Baseball Digest's?

I think I do, if I could find 'em in one of the many places I have stuff stored, LOL

Give it up, how'd you become a Cards Fan?

Post #5 pretty much summed it up but here's more detail: so yeah, the first live broadcast into Hawaii of the World Series was in '67. We even had a color TV so I *think* it was also the first live color broadcast of a sporting event too. IIRC, we had a Hitachi. So anyway, watched the Series with my Dad (...who was a BIG baseball fan...) and became hooked on the Cards. After that followed them as best I could thru the Sports section and boxscores but by then was busy training our dogs (...we showed Smooth Fox Terriers...) so baseball wasn't always first on my plate. However, Gibson's '68 season was one for the ages so can still pull 1.12 outta my head. When they lost to the Tigers it was a heartbreaker.

Time has eroded other details about how I followed the Cards that but they've never left my heart as far as baseball goes. It wasn't easy though. There weren't any radio broadcasts of St. Louis games into Hawaii, San Fran and the Dodgers were the 2 that were regularly brought in (...they still are...) so other than when the Cards played them or were on the GOW TV broadcast, never got to hear or see them. Oh...but wait...maybe there is one more reason - my Dad also loved cardinals, the bird. Was it because of the baseball team? Maybe. But they are a majestic looking bird and we put out a bird feeder and he'd still out in the back porch just watching the birds come and eat. Gave names to them too.

Interestingly enough, that color television was also the reason why I'm a Green Bay fan. Although I knew about the Packers (...first newspaper headline I remember is "GB Beats NY For NFL Title"...this would be in 1962 in case you were wondering...), the Ice Bowl sealed the deal. But we're talkin' about baseball so 'nuff on that.

And no, no Baseball Digests laying around. Probably couldn't afford them so never had much of a collection to speak of.

Got my fingers crossed!

Just Wow!

And now we wait to find out who the opponent will be.

Go Redbirds! =d>