When the ownership group led by Bill DeWitt Jr., Andrew Baur, and Frederick O. Hanser announced just before Christmas 1995 that they had purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for $150 million, they were under no illusions – the Redbirds weren’t very good. They didn’t wait long to fix it, signing outfielder Ron Gant and starting […]
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For the first time since the Whitey Herzog days of the 1980s, the Cardinals were in the thick of a pennant race. So it was fitting that two stars of the 1980s, Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee, led the Cardinals to an extra-inning victory over the Astros on September 2, 1996. The Cardinals entered the
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By the end of the 1991 season, the St. Louis Cardinals knew they once again would be in the market for a power-hitting first baseman. That market led them to trade for Expos slugger Andres Galarraga. At 35 years old, Pedro Guerrero had just completed his third season on the Busch Stadium Astroturf, and the
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