Cards Are Set For Big Season, Declares Owner Britton

CARDS ARE SET FOR BIG SEASON, DECLARES BOSS Britton Believes That New Recruits Will Prove Big Help to Huggins and That Bescher, Doak and Meadows Will Star. PLANS TO START WORK ON NEW STANDS NEXT OCTOBER Concrete Grand Stands Will Be Built on Robison Field Site if Team Prospers This Year. Osteopathic treatment on Doak’s […]

“Akron Oak”, In Fine Form, Seems Due for Another Sensational Season

BILL DOAK IN FORM.  OH, FOR ANOTHER LIKE HIM. April 16, 1915           Age 24 By Dent McSkimming       The St Louis Star and Times Bill Doak, last year’s sensation of the National league, seems to be in line for another season of startling pitching. He allowed but five hits, quite […]

No Pennant Races This Year – It’s Giants in the NL, Athletics in the AL

April 8, 1914      Age 23 Wray’s Column          St Louis Post Dispatch SAD, but apparently true, Bo. There’ll be no races for the National and American League baseball pennant races, this year. There will be two walk-overs. Titles to said buntings have already been made over to the Giants and […]

Betting On the Cards After 26 Years Of Disappointment!

April 7, 1914        Age 23 Wray’s Column          St Louis Post Dispatch IT’S a fact, lads. Bets are being made on the St. Louis Cardinals that they will beat one team which last season was looked upon as having a fair chance to win the pennant, a club which […]

Too Much Is Being Expected of Recruits Doak and Perritt for Next Season

December 15, 1913   Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor.,    St Louis Post Dispatch MORE TRADES ARE IN SIGHT, BRITTON SAYS “We’re not through trading yet,” declared President Schuyler P. Britton Monday upon his return from Cleveland, where he stopped on his way home from New York. “Manager Stallings of Boston would like to land […]

Doak Is Due To Get His Mail At Robison Field For Some Time To Come

Pitcher Doak Has Registered Quite a Hit October 1, 1913           Age 22 St Louis Post Dispatch St. Louis.   Five Cardinal recruits will be shipped home Wednesday, their services not being needed for the fall series with the Browns, which opens next Tuesday. Manager Huggins announced Wednesday he would get along without […]