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 Andrés Galarraga. At 35 years old, Pedro Guerrero had just completed his third season on the Busch Stadium Astroturf, and the
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On June 25, 1999, Arizona Diamondbacks fans came to Bank One Ballpark looking forward to a match-up between flame-throwing left-hander Randy Johnson and record-breaking slugger Mark McGwire. They indeed got to see something special – they just weren’t expecting it to come from rookie right-hander Jose Jimenez. With the assistance of two exceptional plays from
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In the hours before Mark Whiten made history with a four-homer, 12-RBI performance in the second game of a double-header against the Reds on September 7, 1993, he didn’t appear to be a man on the verge of the greatest performance of his major league career. The first game of the double-header was an ugly
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