1998

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Why the Cards traded Todd Stottlemyre and Royce Clayton at the 1998 trade deadline

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One year after acquiring slugger Mark McGwire at the trade deadline, Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty found himself as a seller at the 1998 deadline, sending starting pitcher Todd Stottlemyre and shortstop Royce Clayton to the Texas Rangers for starting pitcher Darren Oliver, third baseman Fernando Tatis, and a player to be named later. That […]

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Mark McGwire

Mark McGwire reaches 70 home runs: September 27, 1998

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With two blasts on the final day of the 1998 season, Mark McGwire established a new plateau for MLB sluggers with 70 home runs for the season. The 34-year-old slugger set a torrid pace from the outset of the 1998 campaign, beginning with a grand slam in the Cardinals’ season-opening win. On July 26, he

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Edgar Renteria

How Edgar Renteria was traded to the Cardinals

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In December 1998, the Cardinals’ winding quest for a shortstop led them to Miami and Edgar Renteria. On December 14, the Cardinals traded pitchers Braden Looper and Armando Almanza and shortstop prospect Pablo Ozuna to the Marlins for Renteria. Just 13 months earlier, Renteria’s 11th-inning RBI single off Charles Nagy won Game 7 of the

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Mark McGwire

McGwire breaks Maris’s home run record: September 8, 1998

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One day after Mark McGwire hit his 61st home run of the season on his father’s 61st birthday, his shortest home run of the season launched him into the record books. On September 8, 1998, McGwire hit his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris’s 1961 record with a 341-foot homer off Cubs

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How Mark McGwire broke the Cardinals’ single-season home run record

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Mark McGwire’s pursuit of Babe Ruth and Roger Maris took him past Johnny Mize before the 1998 calendar turned to August. On July 26, McGwire’s 44th home run of the season broke the franchise record set by Johnny Mize in 1940. The blast, which came in the Cardinals’ 104th game of the season, kept McGwire

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March 31, 1998: Mark McGwire grand slam lifts Cardinals to season-opening win

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Mark McGwire had a grand time in his first opening day with the St. Louis Cardinals. Eight months earlier, McGwire arrived in St. Louis in a trade that sent Erick Ludwick, T.J. Mathews, and Blake Stein to the Oakland Athletics. In his final 51 games of the 1997 season, McGwire hit 24 home runs for

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