10.13.2008 9:42 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TOWER GROVE - The bountiful stats Ryan Ludwick put up this season, the career-high wins for pitchers like Kyle Lohse and even the radar readouts from rookie Jason Motte – as big as those numbers were, the digits that continue to define the Cardinals 2008 season are these: 31.
Everyone knows what that number is.
The first question of the Return of PostCards forces us to discuss what that number means. The Cardinals blew 31 saves this…
10.08.2008 3:57 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SOUTH GRAND — It remains one of the most inside-baseball anecdotal tidbits of the Cardinals’ 2008 season: Outfielder Ryan Ludwick was a National League All-Star before he was an everyday player.
On his way to a career year in every column and row of his baseball card, Ludwick returned from the national stage, an All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, to not see his name in the starting lineup the first game back after the All-Star break….
02.18.2008 1:41 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JUPITER, Fla. — It might have been while they were doing kickboxing or speed boxing, or maybe pulling another lug up a hill, or possibly darting up stadium stairs. Whenever it was and however badly they wanted to hurl or plunge their screaming muscles into a vat of ice, the three major leaguers knew one thing when trainer Jim Moss barked, “OK, just one more.”
He was lying.
“His ‘one more’ is full of (marbles),” Cardinals outfielder Skip…
