Stan Musial

Forget the sugarplums. Let visions of Stephen Colbert in furry boots dance in your head. Colbert will host a holiday special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, at 10 p.m. Sunday on Comedy Central. The special was originally planned for last...

Way back in 1944, a .267 average was enough to win the National League's Most Valuable Player award for St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Marty Marion -- by a single vote over the Chicago Cubs' Bill Nicholson. Nicholson hit .287 that year and led the...

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial is 88. Actor Joseph Campanella is 81. Country singer Jean Shepard is 75. Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 74. Actress Marlo Thomas is 71. Actor Rick Lenz is 69. Singer Dr. John is 68. Actress Juliet Mills is 67. Comedian-...

As a young lad growing up in southern Illinois, I was naturally a St. Louis Cardinals fan. A hot summer's night, Harry Caray announcing a game on KMOX radio, Stan "The Man" Musial hitting a home run to win the game -- what could better stir the...

He still remembers the first professional uniform he ever wore. He was 18 years old, fresh off the bus from Arkansas. The jersey said White Roses across the chest. In his first pro game, the public address announcer in York, Pa., announced the team's...

It seemed like the worst kind of trade, one that favored neither team, a deal best left in the small print on the transactions page. A half century ago, the Dodgers sent Gino Cimoli to the St. Louis Cardinals for Wally Moon, an exchange of outfielders,...

The crowds that welcomed the Dodgers to Los Angeles and continued to respond to their historic presence were enormous -- 78,652 for the first game in 1958, 93,103 for a 1959 exhibition with the New York Yankees saluting Roy Campanella, and more than 92,...

Player, Year, Cast, Votes, Pct. Tom Seaver 1992 430 425 98.84 Nolan Ryan 1999 497 491 98.79 Cal Ripken Jr. 2007 545 537 98.53 Ty Cobb 1936 226 222 98.23 George Brett 1999 497 488 98.19 Hank Aaron 1982 415 406 97.83 Tony Gwynn 2007 545 532 97.61...

The handshake, a quaint form of sealing a deal, has worked for the Baltimore Orioles and their Rookie-level team for half a century, an affiliation unmatched in organized baseball. "We've never had a contract," says Bluefield Orioles general manager...

Twenty-four years ago, the Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed an Oriole known simply by his first name - a balding infielder who defined his position and bled orange all his life. Next week, Cooperstown, N.Y., will do this again. And like Brooks Robinson...

It was a sensation I'd experienced while touring plantations in South Carolina and walking the Forum in Rome, that feeling that because I was standing in a certain place, I was linked intimately with the span of human history. I stared at the bronzed...

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