St. Louis Cardinals – Cardboard Gods

NLDS Preview, part one Style is a mode of conflict. It doesn’t seem that way to most individuals, I don’t think, but whenever style choices are made—clothing, hairstyle, behavior—they are...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/09/rick-reuschel-and-al-hrabosky/

According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview St. Louis Cardinals Today I’m going to begin counting down the days until the opening of the 2011 baseball season by predicting the fortunes o...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/02/28/jack-heidemann/

I’m drawn to insignificant moments in my past, when I was neither here nor there. Empty afternoons in childhood, leafing through my cards. Shooting baskets as a teenager on the hoop at my grand...

https://cardboardgods.net/2010/03/23/harry-rasmussen/

Jim Dwyer spent most of the 1970s bouncing around the National League, never really getting the hang of things in any one place before being swapped for Larry Lintz or shipped across the border w...

https://cardboardgods.net/2010/01/25/jim-dwyer/

This is what it looks like to want the ball to be hit to you. I have never been able to strike a similar attitude of passionate readiness and willingness to engage, either in baseball or any othe...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/11/23/keith-hernandez/

I found another card on the street yesterday, my second in the last week. What is the universe trying to tell me? Now I walk around staring at the ground, looking for more cards. Maybe I’ll qui...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/11/13/pedro-guerrero/

I’m still working on my book, so I’ve got to make this quick. (I begged and wheedled for an extension on my original June 1 deadline.) But, since I set today as the end of my suspension from ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/06/01/lynn-mcglothen/

   For you youngsters out there, here’s a checklist you can use to gain quick, enthusiastic entry into the baseball Hall of Fame: Surpass one or more of the long-established career statistica...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/14/lou-brock-77-record-breaker-in-yet-another-nagging-question/

   Years ago, back when I lived in Brooklyn, I was staring at the ceiling, listening to the radio, and wondering if it was too early in the day to masturbate. The usual. It must have been a slo...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/13/lou-brock/

   I. Last week on the bus a guy in a Cubs hat sitting near me eyeballed my Red Sox hat and we started talking baseball. It’s a pretty long ride, and after a while we ran out of things to say...

https://cardboardgods.net/2008/11/12/ted-simmons/