This is very cool. Amazing how despite losing Albert Pujols, the Cardinals just keep on winning.
It’s a lot about heritage in St. Louis. The guys featured on the right (Roger Maris, Tim McCarver, Bob Gibson, Mike Shannon, and Lou Brock) would be proud that the tradition still is going strong.
How about this observation from SI writer Ben Reiter:
“Mostly, we think of consistency. Their 11 championships have been well distributed. No son or daughter of St Louis born since 1902 has reached the age of 25 without having lived through at least one victory parade.”
That would hurt me a lot more if I was a Cubs fan.
R.I.P-Roger Maris
Ben joined us on the podcast this week. Sweet dude.
They left out the mid-90’s photograph which is just a series of 5 syringes on the chairs.