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 […]
Willie Doak Starts Well in Opening Contest, but Blows in the Fifth
Sallee At Best, Cardinals Break Even With CubsDoak Pitches 1.4 Innings, 2 ER, 3 hits, 5 BB, 1 SORecord Now 5-2, 1.95 ERA May 31, 1914 Age 23 By W. L. Veeck, A Staff Correspondent of the Post Dispatch CHICAGO, Ill., May 30. The Cardinals didn’t do anything marvelous on this […]
Dots Miller Denies Intent To Jump To Federal League
MILLER ANGRY AT ‘JUMPING’ REPORT; WILL PLAY TODAY Cardinals’ First Sacker Threatens to Sue Scribes Who Misquote Him. HIS FUTURE IS DUBIOUS ‘Wise Guys” on the Inside Say It’s Just a Matter of Money With “Dots.” Doak Gets The Win, Improves To 5-1 with 1.78 ERA. 2 ER, 8 Hits, 2 SO, 2 BB, 7.1 […]
Many New Faces Will Be Seen in National League
Many New Faces Will Be Seen in Older Organization While Three American League Teams Will Face the Barrier With Same Lineup as Finished 1913. Hug has good prospects in Perritt, Doak, Griner, Robinson and Niehaus, April 12, 1914 Age 23 By W. J. O’Connor St Louis Post Dispatch […]
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 […]
Storm Sets in and Players Have to Loosen Up in Y.M.C.A. Gymnasium
Cosy Dolan, New Third Sacker, Arrives in the Training Camp February 26, 1914 Age 23 BY MARION F. PARKER, Staff Correspondent Globe-Democrat, at Cardinals’ Training Camp, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA., February 25 . One more major league player has been added to the Federal League roster, as Manager Miller Huggins of […]
Only One Cardinal – Dolan – Has Jumped To Federal League
FOUR MORE CARDS ACCEPT CONTRACTS SUBMITTED BY HUG What Federal League Must Do To Succeed Butler, Wilson, Snyder and Glenn Prove Loyal to the Banner of Organized Baseball. Mowrey Scorns Feds; Sin With Pittsburg January 18, 1914 Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor. St Louis Post Dispatch Four Cardinal […]
Federals’ Invasion Already Has Cost Big Guns $150,000 – Worst Yet To Come
Raid on Big Leagues Has Netted Several Expensive Stars, With Others Yet to Be Announced Majors Are Retaining Men at Increased Salaries. January 17, 1914 Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor St Louis Post Dispatch BANK accounts of organized baseball already have suffered a “tap” of at least $150,000 […]
Baseball “Slaves” Using Federal League to Boost Pay Checks
Doak Signs Contract, Unclear if Approached By Feds Players Reluctant to Leave Organized Baseball, Recent Events Show January 15, 1914 Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor St Louis Post Dispatch Doak, Hauser, Hagerman Signed Ballplayers are working two ends against the middle, in this war which the Federal League has […]
Not One Cardinal Player Is Signed To 1914 Contract
St. Louis Has Made the Least Progress of All Clubs New Federal League Considering Buffalo, Kansas City, Baltimore, Toronto, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh January 13, 1914 Age 22 By W. J. O’Connor, St Louis Post Dispatch Manager Miller Huggins of the Cardinals is busier than a bird dog these days, trying, by desperate […]