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The Five Best St. Louis Cardinals Players by rWAR (1959-1988)
via www.throughthefencebaseball.com A little while back, Dave Schonefield wrote a terrific post on ESPN's Sweet Spot blog, "Five Best Players in Baseball: A History." Using cumulative WAR for five-year periods, Schoenfield listed the five top players in Major League Baseball. The post...
Decades of Excellence: Cardinal Center Fielders
The Cardinals have had a legacy of good center fielders over the years - in the 40's it was Terry Moore, in the 60's it was Flood, in the 80's McGee, Ray Lankford in the 90's and for much of our current decade, Jim Edmonds. We won't include Moore at the moment, Rally's Historical WAR database...
Book Review: A Well Paid-Slave
As today we honor a man who stood up for the rights of everyone, I felt it would be the perfect day to review a book about the man who stood up for the rights of baseball players, and athletes everywhere really, to become free agents. That man is Curt Flood, and Brad Snyder's A Well Paid Slave:...
Happy Birthday Curt Flood
Curt Flood, who would have been 71 today, had a nice little career with the Cardinals in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, picking up a few MVP votes and actually finishing fourth in 1968. Flood is scarcely remembered for his player career, though. His baseball legacy was his challenging...
Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part II
In Part I we looked at the history of labor unions in baseball, and the changes that Marvin MIller wrought in a short team as the president of the Major League Baseball Player's Association. Today, we see how Curt Flood paved the road for the eventual creation of free agency, and how Miller won...
Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part I
UPDATE: Part II of this article can be found here. Last week we looked at the History of the American and National leagues in two parts (part I, part II). This week we will look at the history of labor unions in baseball, and focus on the impact that Marvin Miller had on the game. We will examine...
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