This is what the Cardinals used to neutralize Ted Williams.
The .350+ hitter during the season was able to muster a 5-for-25 World Series (.250).
Make all the complaining you want but if it works and helps win games, do it.
Jimmy Wolf 1862-1901 William Van Winkle Wolf was born on May 12, 1862 in Louisville, Kentucky. To his family he was “Willie.” As a teenager a friend dubbed him “Chicken,” and later he was known as “Jimmy” to baseball fans in Louisville. “Willie” was a common diminutive of William in the German-American home of…
The idea of ranking players becomes very subjective and always open for debate. But to do this, you have to start somewhere. Here we go… #50- Rico Gathers 6’8″ 280 lbs. Rico Gathers, F, Baylor – Ricardo Darnell Gathers Born Jan. 7, 1994, in New Orleans, La. Son of Richard…
next week: Forest City Township SALT CREEK TOWNSHIP WILLIAM F. AUXIER, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Mason City ; was born in Floyd Co., Ky., Jan. 26, 1834 ; from the age of 14 to 18 years, he followed boating on the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers ; all the schooling he received, he got…
Rinse Your Eyes I finished reading a book called The Gold Mine Effect by Rasmus Ankersen about cracking the secrets of high performance. It was at the end of the book, in the Epilogue, that he stated something that I find really intriguing about people in today’s society. He wrote:…
Yes, we all know that the impetus of Title IX is that there needs to be the same number of sports for the men and women. That is fine and dandy but that is a poor business model. If a college wants to have sport, then it should be self-sufficient or they shouldn’t…
The St. Louis University Board of Regents announced on March 30. 2016 that they had hired Travis Ford to be the next basketball coach for the Billikens. The fans in and around the campus were hoping for more but soon realized he may be the best man at the right spot. When Ford went off…