Cardinal Points : Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball

This book is a collection of poems devoted to the St. Louis Cardinals. They cover over a hundred years of Cardinal players, significant moments, and other memorable aspects of the team. Branch Rickey, Grover Cleveland Alexander and the 1926 World Series, Rogers Hornsby and Dizzy Dean in the 1920s and '30s, the Cooper brothers, Harry ""The Cat"" Brecheen and Enos Slaughter and the 1946 Series, Stan ""The Man"" Musial and Whitey Ford in the 1940s and '50s, Bill White, Julian Javier, Dick Groat, Mike Shannon, Ken Boyer, Bob Uecker and Roger Maris in the 1960s and '70s, Glenn Brummer, Willie McGee, Joaquin Andujar, John Tudor, Mark McGwire and Fernando Tatis in the 1980s and '90s, and Albert Pujols and Will Clark in the 2000s - all of these players and moments, and many more, are here celebrated in verse.