The St. Louis Cardinals have won the World Series with Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith. They’ve won it with speed. They’ve won with power. They’ve won it with pitching, defense and mastermind managers.
Until now, the Cardinals had never won a World Series with a team like this. A team that was lost, left behind and stranded in the standings. A team too stubborn and proud to accept the hopelessness of the situation. A team that fought back like no other has in franchise history.
A team that on Friday night completed one of the truly spectacular comebacks in major-league baseball history….
Most people around here really haven’t gotten their minds around this one. I wrote them off in August so my reaction to this team was the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid line. Who are these guys?
They played a great last few games. The World Series is like the regular season in microcosm: up early, smacked down, back again to take the lead, then down in the dumps, then break out win, and the final clincher.
Three and a half months to pitchers and catchers reporting!
The last Cards game I attended happened to be the end of the drought. The turn around began with their very next game. I work near the stadium and it is usually very quiet – even dead if you comapre to Chicago. But the last week or so there has been so much activity and traffic. Johnson is right…very hard to get my mind around this. The Rangers were great competitors and it took both teams to make this an epic world series.