Baseball Hall of Famer Roger Maris was born on this day. He played for both the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
St. Louis Cardinals
Miller Huggins, the St. Louis Cardinals manager, was coaching third base with runners on when the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers sent a rookie pitcher to the mound. Huggins said he wanted to examine the baseball and the rookie tossed it to him. The runner on third then scored.
For the first time in baseball history an opening day game was played at night when the Cardinals beat the Pirates in St. Louis.
Birthday of Hall of Fame Cardinals catcher and sportscaster, Joe Garagiola. Joe grew up on The Hill in St. Louis with good friend, Yogi Berra.
The Cardinals played the longest game in their history and the second-longest in MLB history. After trailing the Mets 3-1 in the ninth, the Cards came back to tie and then play an additional 15 innings lasting for over seven hours. Finally, at 3:13 A.M., Calloway County’s Bake McBride scored the winning run.
Country Boy is Mark’s second book, following his 2016 memoir, On the Eighth Day, God Made Baseball. Mark, who used to enter games to John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” describes his latest work as a coming-of-age nonfiction story about how his character formed while growing up in Missouri.
