I have lived all over America. I lived in St. Louis for one year (1987). Sorry Yankees fans. Sorry Red Sox fans. Sorry Cubs fans. There is no better baseball city in this country than St. Louis! And I'm a Dodgers fan.
Altho I haven't lived in STL since 2005, I will always be a Cardinals fan, for Life--STL is the best baseball city in MLB. I watched all these guys with the Cardinals thru the years and it brought tears to my eyes seeing them all at Busch.
Mine was back in 1982. Got to see the Wizard do his flip. Was most amazing. They played the Phillies that day. That had to be one of the most boring games in history. 14 innings and the Phillies got that one winning run. Phillies-1 Cardinals-0. That blew. But hey! They won that year's World Series!
Hell I’m a Braves fan and I just sat here and squalled watching this thing. What a class organization with so many old studs in that parade. Big ups to the Cards for honoring their glorious past with such a top notch presentation…
Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals 16 living Hall of Famers introduced in this video on opening day 2022 Vince Coleman, Jason Isringhausen, Scott Rolen, John Tudor, Bruce Sutter, Joe Torre, Tim McCarver, Ted Simmons, Mark McGwire, Jim Edmonds, Mike Shannon, Whitey Herzog, Ray Lankford, Tom Herr, Willie McGee, Ozzie Smith and also to Bob Gibson and Stan Musial may they R I P
It brings Joy to the heart of a lifelong Cardinal fan like myself. I was a wee lad when some of those players were on the field like Joe Torre and Tim McCarver, but I still remember the excitement of being there in Busch stadium and seeing them play. Their steps may have slowed a little bit but the luster of their great efforts for the team hasn't lost anything ♥️
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. What a treat for St L fans to see some of their heroes. Trust me.....don't take such celebrations for granted. Doesn't look good for a day like this in Montreal! I was surprised when I looked up how many players were with St L and Montreal some time in their career......including Tim McCarver!
These were my baseball heroes in the 1970s and 1980s in my teenage and young adult years, We all grow old, but seeing these guys in the seventies and eighties, with Whitey being ninety, brings tears to my eyes. Ah. youth.
Willie McGee deserves to be in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. St Louis knows it. The idiot writers who have kept him out all these years are trash. Same goes for Big Mac. I can pick out 10 players who have been put in Cooperstown who didn't have the numbers McGee had and the fact that he was one of the most important pieces in a decade of 3 WS appearances, is just downright criminal not putting him in.
A giant BS flag has to be raised after hearing the first sentence in this video, and I've been a Cardinal fan all my life since the mid-60s: "Since taking over in 1996, the team's current ownership group has engineered an unprecedented run of success on the field." The author of that line is clearly unfamiliar with the definition of the words "unprecedented" and "success". In those 26 years, the Cards have won 2 championships. The Yankees have won 5, the Red Sox 4, the Giants 3, and the Florida Marlins, like St. Louis, won it twice. I'm sure there will be many replies with other takes on success and defending the hype of that statement, but the last three words are ON THE FIELD. Feel free to ask the players, coaches, and fans of a losing team in the World Series - like the 2004 and 2013 Cardinal teams - if they had a "successful" year. A pretty good season, a nice run, or a good year overall falls short of the success everyone wants. If I were Bill DeWitt or a member of the ownership group, I would not have allowed that sentence to be broadcast.
These Red Jackets belong to Cardinals who have made it to Hall of Fame not the Cardinals Hall of Fame. Is nothing sacred? Ozzie Smith is not the same as Jim Edmonds. Ozzie gets the read coat give the other guys a different color. They are not the same.
