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Came home from being out of town to this super cool #RAK from @DylanCumming12! Truly appreciate it, my man!
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Another fun one. This month marks 30 years since a very much younger me appeared in the November 1996 Beckett as part of their Supercollector series. The collection was 600 different and 2500 total at that point. A lot of people sent me cards through the mail from that article.
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I'm pretty sure you know what this celebration was all about.
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April 20, 1978. Ozzie Smith is a rookie shortstop for the Padres, not even two weeks into his big league career. Jeff Burroughs of the Braves hits a grounder up the middle.
Ozzie dives, the ball takes a bad hop and kicks behind him, and while he's still in the air he reaches back and grabs it with his bare hand. Then he gets up and throws Burroughs out.
Two years later he won the first of 13 straight Gold Gloves. Who's the best defensive shortstop ever?
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OTD: 10/17/96
Ozzie Smith gets a standing ovation from the crowd in Atlanta during his final at-bat in the Majors. Goodbye, Oz.
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My dad may just have been the most even keel, stoic person I’ve ever known. But 41 years ago this today, as we sat in section 310, row 12 at Busch Memorial Stadium, even he heeded Mr. Buck’s instructions to “Go crazy, folks!” Most excited I ever saw him. What a moment.
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OTD: 10/14/85
“Smith corks one out to right down the line... it may go... Go crazy folks, go crazy! It's a home run, and the Cardinals have won the game, by the score of 3-2 on a home run by the wizard!" - Jack Buck🎙️
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A tip of the cap to the legendary Buck O’Neill, who died 20 years ago today. Hard to believe it’s been that long.
I (like much of America) fell in love with Buck during Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary. And if you’ve never read Joe Posnanski’s The Soul of Baseball, do so today!
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On this day in 1996, the Cardinals officially retired Ozzie Smith's No. 1 jersey in a pre-game ceremony at Busch Stadium II.
"The Wizard" retired after 19 seasons, concluding a first ballot Hall of Fame career that included 13 Gold Gloves and 2,460 hits.
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Did you know?
Ozzie Smith holds the modern era record of most RBI's with 0 home runs.
In 1987, Ozzie had 75 RBI's while hitting no home runs.
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Ozzie Smith dove to backhand a slow roller with his bare hand against Atlanta and fired it to first in one motion, during his rookie season with the Padres on April 20, 1978.
It's been voted the single greatest defensive play in baseball history in more than one poll since.
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What a blessing this weekend was. To be on the field with all of our teammates from the 2006 WS Championship team, and to see 2 of the greatest players and Cardinals to ever live, who are forever friends, go in the HOF…… thank you Lord. @Cardinals
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For the first time since the Whitey Herzog days of the 1980s, the Cardinals were in the thick of a pennant race. So it was fitting that Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee led the Cardinals to an extra-inning victory over the Astros on this date in 1996. stlredbirds.com/2020/12/22/s…
