Fans rally at Busch stadium before the Cardinals play their home opener against the Chicago Cubs on Friday, April 13, 2012.
4/13/2012
Album ID: 1450683
Cardinals lose home opener to Cubs, 9-5
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The Cardinals season home opener is against the Chicago Cubs, Friday, April 13, 2012
4/13/2012
Album ID: 1450897
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff
San Jose Sharks 3, St. Louis Blues 2 (2OT)
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The San Jose Sharks won the first game of a first-round playoff series against the St. Louis Blues, 3-2 in double-overtime at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
4/12/2012
Album ID: 1450469
Photos by Chris Lee
St. Louis Blues practice before playoffs
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The St. Louis Blues held a practice session at their training facility in the St. Louis Mills Shopping Mall in Hazelwood before their first-round playoff game against the San Jose Sharks.
4/11/2012
Album ID: 1449317
Photos by Chris Lee
Stan Musial, #6
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"Stan the Man" Musial, the greatest Cardinal of them all, played 22 seasons for the team, starting in 1941 when he was rookie of the year. Stan, a switch hitter, retired in 1963 with 3630 hits---1815 from the left, 1815 from the right. In 2011, President Obama presented Stan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448662
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
Red Schoendienst, #2
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Albert "Red" Schoendienst played second base for the Cardinals, starting in 1945. He also managed the Redbirds, and took the team to the World Series twice. Almost seventy years after he first began his association with the Cardinals, he is still with them; he is a special assistant to the general manager. Red was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448642
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
Bob Gibson, #45
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Bob Gibson was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1959 until 1975. Known as a ferocious competitor, he pitched three complete games for wins in the 1967 World Series. His 1.12 ERA in 1968 is credited with changing the game, as the pitcher's mound was lowered the next year and the strike zone was narrowed. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1981.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448747
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
Bruce Sutter, #42
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Bruce Sutter was the closer for the Cardinals from 1981 until 1984. He got two saves in the 1982 World Series, and finished his career in 1988 with exactly 300 saves. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006, and his number was retired in a ceremony at the New Busch Stadium that year.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448738
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
St.Louis Cardinals: The championship seasons
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by Derrick Goold --- With their 11 World Series titles, the Cardinals have won a championship in almost every era, from the Roaring 20's through the Depression, into World War II, during Vietnam, at the advent of MTV and now two in the digital age. Since Gatsby and the Lost Generation, no generation has gone without a Cardinals title.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448007
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Enos Slaughter, #9
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Enos "Country" Slaughter was an outfielder for the Cardinals. With time off for military service, he played for the Cardinals from 1938 until 1953. He is known for his mad dash to home to score the winning run in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series, a and was immortalized with a statue in front of Busch Stadium. He cried when he was traded to the New York Yankees in 1954, and when he died in 2002, he was buried in a replica of a Cardinals uniform.
4/10/2012
Album ID: 1448673
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
