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Cardinals Playoff Preview

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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 9:03 a.m.

It’s fitting that the St. Louis Cardinals will finish the current decade of baseball in the postseason. With six division titles, seven playoff appearances, two National League pennants, and a world championship since 2000, the Cardinals’ case for mythical “team of the decade” is already solid. Should they win the 2009 World Series, the decade would match the franchise’s glorious run of the 1960s (two championships, three pennants) and be second only to the 1940s (three world

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Redbirds Win Second Game of PCL Series

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Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 7:32 a.m.

Mark Hamilton belted a home run to lead off the sixth inning and the Memphis Redbirds' pitching staff held to its stellar postseason form Wednesday night, leading the home team to a 3-2 victory over the Sacramento River Cats and a 2-games-to-none lead in the best-of-five Pacific Coast League Championship Series ... Frank Murtaugh's got the details ...

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Redbirds Win PCL Division Title

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Published Sept. 6, 2009 at 11:39 a.m.

By winning a double-header over Oklahoma City Saturday night, the Memphis Redbirds claimed a division title in the Pacific Coast League. Playoffs begin Wednesday. And the big boys in St. Louis noticed ...

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Craig's Lift

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 9:25 a.m.

Defining the 2009 Memphis Redbirds’ headline act has been a chore. Third-baseman Brett Wallace — the St. Louis Cardinals’ top draft pick a year ago — was sent to Oakland in the July trade that brought Matt Holliday to St. Louis. The Redbirds’ lone Pacific Coast League All-Star — relief pitcher Jess Todd — was likewise part of a trade package last month (the one that landed Mark DeRosa from Cleveland). So when fans look back on the ’09 campaign, which name will stand out?

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Memphis Athletes of the Decade: #5 — Stubby Clapp

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Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 9:23 a.m.

The first decade of the 21st century — at least in the realm of sports — was unlike any other Memphis has seen (or likely will see). Over the next five months, I’ll be counting down the five most significant Memphis athletes of “the Oughts.” Starting today, with number five ... Like every legend, Stubby Clapp grows with memory. And like every folk hero, his charms seem not all that distant with reflection. How a native of Windsor, Ontario, grew into the back flipping,

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The Cardinals' Midseason Makeover

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Published July 27, 2009 at 9:39 a.m.

The St. Louis Cardinals used the first four months of the 2009 season to discover some characteristics about their club. They learned the team is capable of enduring injuries to key players, as Chris Carpenter, Ryan Ludwick, Rick Ankiel, Kyle Lohse, and Troy Glaus spent significant time on the disabled list. (Glaus has yet to play this year.) They learned — or better put, were reminded — that the team is centered around the planet’s best player in Albert Pujols. And they learned that,

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Redbirds "RBI" Program Out of Business

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Published July 16, 2009 at 6:23 p.m.

As they listlessly trudged up a hill in Orange Mound's lifelessLincoln Park, their wistful thoughts were of a sport they played aschildren on happier summer days ...

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Redbirds Cancel "RBI" Program

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Published July 16, 2009 at 2:49 p.m.

The Memphis Redbirds are revealing more than they know about their internal problems. They're trying to keep a lid on the premature ending of the 2009 season for Returning Baseball to the Inner-city (RBI) by not letting their most credible Memphis baseball insider talk about it ... John Branston has the story ...

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Memphis Redbirds Enter New Era

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Published July 14, 2009 at 2:24 p.m.

A minor league baseball "Field of Dreams ... But, in 1997, itwasn't a mythical Iowa cornfield ... but the dilapidated buildingsand alleys at the corner of Second and Union that was chosen as thesite for the construction of a first-class Triple-A stadium ... andmost in the city collectively…snickered…at the "folly"of it's downtown location ... as chosen by prospective team ownersDean and Christie Jernigan ...

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When a Bad Weekend’s Good

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Published June 29, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

If the cosmos suddenly allowed us 27 hours in a day, I’d give my extra three hours to baseball. At the stadium when possible and when not, via literature or the MLB Network. Even with merely 24-hour cycles, I managed to attend four games in four days last week, which only has me dreaming more about that cosmic bonus time ... -- June 25: Omaha at Memphis, AutoZone Park.What a difference six days make in the life of a pitcher. On June 19th, pitching for the Royals in Kansas City, Kyle Davies

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