Jim Edmonds

Jeff Suppan

How Jeff Suppan outpitched Roger Clemens in Game 7 of the 2004 NLCS

With a trip to the World Series on the line, Cardinals starting pitcher Jeff Suppan outpitched that year’s National League Cy Young Award winner, Roger Clemens, to win Game 7 of the 2004 NLCS and send St. Louis to the World Series for the first time in 17 years. Suppan, 29, had signed with the […]

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Jim Edmonds

September 4, 2004: Jim Edmonds hits his 300th career home run

Hours after becoming the third player in Cardinals history to hit his 300th career home run wearing the birds on the bat, Jim Edmonds returned to the clubhouse at Busch Stadium and discovered a voicemail from a man who had become synonymous with home run milestones – Mark McGwire. “He said, ‘Congratulations, you only need

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Jim Edmonds

How the Cardinals pulled off the Jim Edmonds trade

After three years of trade rumors, Angels general manager Bill Stoneman emphatically announced that he had no intention of trading Jim Edmonds. Four days later, on March 23, 2000, Edmonds became a St. Louis Cardinal in a deal that sent pitcher Kent Bottenfield and second base prospect Adam Kennedy to the Angels. “When we heard

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Albert Pujols

July 20, 2004: Albert Pujols goes 5-for-5 with three home runs in Cardinals’ comeback

Even before Chicago Cubs left-hander Glendon Rusch threw the game’s first pitch to St. Louis Cardinals leadoff batter Tony Womack, tensions were high in Wrigley Field. The previous night, the fireworks started when Jim Edmonds hit a two-run home run off Chicago’s Carlos Zambrano. The fiery Cubs right-hander felt that Edmonds spent too long admiring

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