St. Louis Cardinals

By Jeff Kallman 1934—Paul Dean, St. Louis Cardinals (NL; won World Series against the Detroit Tigers) vs. Brooklyn Dodgers; final score: 3-0. 1968—Ray Washburn, St. Louis Cardinals (NL; lost World Series to the Detroit Tigers) vs. San Francisco Giants; final score: 2-0.

By Jeff Kallman Chris Carpenter’s lifetime September earned run average against the six teams his St. Louis Cardinals will face the rest of the regular season: 2.59. The best inning in which to face Randy Johnson: The sixth. (BAA: .264.) The worst: The ninth. (BAA: .179.)

By Jeff Kallman BUSY TRIBE—The Blake deal wasn’t all the Indians brought off to launch the weekend: they landed St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Anthony Reyes—the winner of Game One of the 2006 World Series, with a stylish enough eight-inning, four-hit effort—in a swap for minor league pitcher Luis Perdomo.

By Jeff Kallman Randy Wolf has a new home—the Houston Astros, for whose general manager Ed Wade he pitched while in Philadelphia. The Astros surrendered minor league pitcher Chad Reineke to get the lefthander, whose 2008 has equaled 6-10/4.74 in twenty-one starts for the San Diego Padres, following an i...

By Daniel Rathman There’s a St. Louis Cardinal batting .320 with 16 homers, a .684 slugging percentage, and a team-high 52 RBIs. And no, it’s not Albert Pujols. Or Troy Glaus, for that matter. If you’re not a pleasantly surprised Cardinals fan, a jealous and disgruntled Indians rooter, or a fantasy pundit who spe...

By Jeff Kallman Twice an All-Star as an effective St. Louis Cardinals starter, once as an effective Chicago White Sox reliever, Staley died Wednesday at 87, of natural causes, at his Vancouver, Washington home, his son said. Staley’s daughter also survives him.