This Day in Cardinals History

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This Day in Cardinals History gives Cardinals fans one short story from this date in franchise history: a game, swing, trade, debut, record, heartbreak, or quick-hit cluster. Each episode turns the calendar into a portable piece of St. Louis baseball memory — source-backed, daily, and ear-first.

Episodes

  1. 6h ago

    Bottomley, Hafey, and 28 — July 6, 1929

    July 6, 1929: Cardinals scored 28 runs at Baker Bowl. Two grand slams. Bottomley, Hafey, and a box score that needed a second look.

    3 min

  2. 1d ago

    July 5: Musial's Rookie Summer (1942)

    July 5, 1942 at Sportsman's Park — Cardinals 11, Cubs 6. Stan Musial is 21, Mort Cooper is en route to the NL MVP, and St. Louis is on its way to a 106-48 franchise-best season and a World Series title. Two-minute snapshot of the summer Musial arrived. (Auto-recut round 1: intro/outro music added.)

    3 min

  3. 2d ago

    July 4: Whiteyball Takes the Holiday

    July 4, 1982 at Busch Stadium: Cardinals 7, Cubs 2. John Stuper goes seven strong, Bruce Sutter closes for save number eighteen, and Lonnie Smith scores four times — in the summer Whitey Herzog's machine ran all the way to October and St. Louis's first World Series title since nineteen sixty-seven.

    3 min

  4. 5d ago

    June 26: Bob Gibson's Fifth Shutout

    On June 26, 1968, Bob Gibson shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates 3–0 — nine innings, four hits, no walks — for his fifth straight shutout, in the middle of the most untouchable season a pitcher has ever thrown. This is the night the zeros stopped feeling like luck and started feeling like a law of physics. A two-voice walk back through one date on the Cardinals calendar, from the Year of the Pitcher.

    4 min
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This Day in Cardinals History gives Cardinals fans one short story from this date in franchise history: a game, swing, trade, debut, record, heartbreak, or quick-hit cluster. Each episode turns the calendar into a portable piece of St. Louis baseball memory — source-backed, daily, and ear-first.

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