Cardinals (May) vs Mets (Peralta): 6/9/26, 7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Fastball Freddy is on the hill, put the Cardinals in their place, please.

	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TOT
Luke Weaver	10	0	7	0	18	0	35
Joey Gerber	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Huascar Brazobán	0	0	17	0	21	0	38
Devin Williams	0	0	0	0	20	0	20
David Peterson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cionel Pérez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brooks Raley	16	0	0	0	14	0	30
Austin Warren	0	0	0	34	0	0	34
A.J. Minter	0	0	14	0	13	0	27

 

[MFS62]

Just saw this. In 1947, the Cardinals voted to strike rather than integrate:

https://news1.newstoday123.com/tienchung8386/the-secret-meeting-that-almost-destroyed-baseball-forever/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSVJ55leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFiSUpqellpTDg3WnE3eEZVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpIeej9JEMBhb-QIsX5e1-9IU5AGn7xRGnVvAtOP-rPLJnAOQ68rOXcY6xC-_aem_RMX8GdQGkJq0UDP3ASmAPg

Later

[Centerfield]

Mets have the pitching advantage tonight. Take the W. 
 

This is when the 2024 team went on a run. If they don’t do it now, you can’t make those comparisons anymore. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, MFS62 said:

Just saw this. In 1947, the Cardinals voted to strike rather than integrate:

https://news1.newstoday123.com/tienchung8386/the-secret-meeting-that-almost-destroyed-baseball-forever/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSVJ55leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFiSUpqellpTDg3WnE3eEZVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpIeej9JEMBhb-QIsX5e1-9IU5AGn7xRGnVvAtOP-rPLJnAOQ68rOXcY6xC-_aem_RMX8GdQGkJq0UDP3ASmAPg

Later

Looked into it, and it appears Musial did not participate in that nonsense, and was okay with integration. Good to know I don't have to think Stan The Man was a racist prick (just the rest of the Cardinals, and I'm 100% okay with doing that).

[seawolf17]

And Alvarez is back! Surprise.

RF Benge
SS Bichette
LF Soto
1B Young
CF Ewing
2B Semien
3B Baty
DH Melendez
C Alvarez

SP Peralta

[Frayed Knot]

You've got to remember that, in those pre-expansion days, St Louis was not only MLB's westernmost town but also its southernmost and that radio station KMOX, 'The Voice of St Louis', broadcast Cardinals games to not just Missouri but Arkansas, Texas and beyond. So there was a certain degree of the Cardinals feeling like they represented the south even if not all of them were from it. The Redskins were the same in the NFL and they stayed white only until into the '60s* (not that you'd ever hear the NFL acknowledge that) because their games were carried by radio into Virginia, the Carolinas and beyond well before there were teams in Atlanta, Florida, Charlotte, etc.

The Cardinals finally integrated in the early '50s after Anheuser-Busch bought the team. The story was that when 'Gussie' Busch toured the team's training camp he asked where the black players were. When told they didn't have any black  players he asked, 'Why not, we sell beer to black people why wouldn't we sell baseball to them as well'. So maybe not an altogether humanitarian gesture on Busch's part but a practical one to him which in turn led to the same result.

 

 

 

* I once saw some pictures (probably in a magazine though I can't remember) about the Redskins one of which was of a teenager/young man carrying a sign demanding to KEEP THE REDSKINS WHITE. I wonder if that guy ever realized the irony of his wording.

[MFS62]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Looked into it, and it appears Musial did not participate in that nonsense, and was okay with integration. Good to know I don't have to think Stan The Man was a racist prick (just the rest of the Cardinals, and I'm 100% okay with doing that).

Stan was a class act and a gentleman.

Later