My name is Jeff Matthews, and this is my St. Louis Cardinals Blog. While I’m not extremely happy with some of the moves the Cardinals made this offseason, I still think they have as good of a chance of winning the World Series in 2006 then they have the past couple of years. One of my tasks will be to document this race.
The other thing I’ll be writing about is a love of mine, baseball history. Fortunately, the St. Louis Cardinals have a rich history and I shouldn’t run out of topics too soon. The name of this blog comes from the nickname of the 1930s Cardinals teams. Two of those teams won World Series and both of those World Series went seven games. While I’ll definitely spend some time on the players and seasons that made up the Gas House Gang, I have another order of business to take care of this season.
Eighty years ago this season, in 1926, the St. Louis Cardinals won their first of nine World Series. Leading up to the start of the season, I’ll be doing season specific bios on the players who made up that historic team. Then in April, I’m going to document the day by day happenings of the team in a diary format. I’ll even have a little help, as Brian, the author of Tigerblog, has done this exact same thing for the 1984 Tigers and the 1935 Tigers. I hope you’ll find it as interesting as I do as we go through an entire season from 80 years ago.
I hope you’ll stop by often. I’ll do my best to provide qualtiy content in both 2006 and beyond.
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:42 am
Dear Jeff, in the next month I am creating a website that will feature a lot of baseball information, links and blogs. I was wondering if when I am done with the site you would consider writing for it as the Cardinals correspondent and also as a Goonies editorialist. The name of the site is Goonies Baseball and the URL is http://www.goonies.com (but there is nothing there now so don’t waste your time). For now I will follow your blog If you want to get in contact with me please email me at noahbk@gmail.com
Good luck, I look forward to reading it in the future.
Sincerely
Noah
PS If possible you should update/fix this portion of the site since I am able to type quite a long ways off the page.
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
I am excited for this site as it sounds like it should be fun to
stop by. Good luck
January 23rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Technically, St Louis won its first Championship in 1886.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1886_WS.shtml
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Hey Jeff… Welcome to the world of cardblogging. I look forward to reading more from you.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:10 am
I was directed here from Viva El Birdos.What a great concept for a blog, very much looking forward to making it a daily read. I recently finished reading the History of St. Louis Baseball 1900-1925 so this will be a nice
continuation from that.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:31 am
This sounds really interesting. Looking forward to reading it.
January 25th, 2006 at 7:00 am
I’m looking forward to more!