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1951 St. Louis Cardinals Season
The 1951 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 70th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 60th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 81–73 during the season and finished 3rd in the National League. Offseason * Prior to 1951 season: Larry Jackson was signed as an amateur free agent by the Cardinals. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Notable transactions * May 14, 1951: Don Bollweg and $15,000 were traded by the Cardinals to the New York Yankees for Billy Johnson. * June 15, 1951: Joe Garagiola, Dick Cole, Bill Howerton, Howie Pollet, and Ted Wilks were traded by the Cardinals to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Cliff Chambers Clifford Day Chambers (January 10, 1922 – January 21, 2012) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 189 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals. He ... and Wally Westlake. Roster Player stats Batting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportsman's Park
Sportsman's Park was the name of several former Major League Baseball ballpark structures in St. Louis, Missouri. All but one of these were located on the same piece of land, at the northwest corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street, on the north side of the city. History Sportsman's Park was the home field of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League, and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League from 1920 to 1953, when the Browns relocated to Baltimore and were rebranded as the Orioles. The physical street address was 2911 North Grand Boulevard. The ballpark (by then known as Busch Stadium, but still commonly called Sportsman's Park) was also the home to professional football: in , it hosted St. Louis' first NFL team, the All-Stars, and later hosted the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League from 1960 (following the team's relocation from Chicago) until 1965, with Busch Memorial Stadium opening its doors in 1966. 1881 structure Baseball was pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howie Pollet
Howard Joseph Pollet (June 26, 1921 – August 8, 1974) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and 1950s. A three-time All-Star in 1943, 1946 and 1949, he twice led the National League in earned run average (1.75 in 1943 and 2.10 in 1946). Stellar minor league career Born in New Orleans, Pollet signed his first professional contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, and it was as a Cardinal that he achieved his greatest success. In 1941, he won 20 of 23 decisions and led the Class A1 Texas League in ERA (1.16) and strikeouts (151) as a member of the Houston Buffaloes. This performance earned Pollet a promotion to the Cards that season: as a rookie, he won 5 and lost 2, with an ERA of 1.93. He missed the 1944–45 seasons while serving in the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Ace left-hander for postwar Cardinals Pollet returned to baseball in 1946, and promptly played a major role in the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Krieger
Kurt Ferdinand Krieger (September 16, 1926 – August 16, 1970), nicknamed "Dutch", was an Austrian-born American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in three Major League Baseball games for the St. Louis Cardinals during the seasons of 1949 and 1951. Born in the town of Traisen, he was the first person born in post-1918 Austria, as of 2022, to play in the major leagues, although other MLB players were natives of the multiethnic 1867–1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire. Krieger was listed as tall and . A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he entered pro baseball in the low minors at age 17 in 1944, then served in the United States Army during World War II, and missed the 1945 and 1946 seasons. When he resumed his baseball career in 1947, Krieger won 16 games for the Lynchburg Cardinals of the Class B Piedmont League. By 1949, he had worked his way onto the 28-man, early-season roster of the MLB Cardinals. In his debut on April 21, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Habenicht
Robert Julius Habenicht (February 13, 1926 – December 24, 1980) was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in four Major League Baseball games—all in relief—for the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns. Born in St. Louis, he batted right-handed and was listed as tall and . Habenicht's 11-season professional career began in and continued into , with the campaign taken up by his service in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. After playing in the Cardinal farm system through , he made the Redbird roster in April and worked in three early-season National League games before returning to the minors. At the close of , which Habenicht split between Double-A Houston and Triple-A Rochester, the Cards placed him on waivers, and the city's American League team, the Browns, picked him up. On May 3, 1953, Habenicht made his only appearance for the Browns in his final MLB game, allowing one run in 1 innings pitched agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erv Dusak
Ervin Frank "Four Sack" Dusak (July 29, 1920 – November 6, 1994) was an American professional baseball outfielder, infielder and pitcher in Major League Baseball over nine seasons spanning 1941 to 1952 for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in Chicago, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Dusak signed with the Cardinals' organization in 1938 and got his nickname from a poem a fan wrote after he hit a home run in the minors. He spent the 1941 season among three Cardinal farm clubs: the Class B Mobile Shippers, Class A1 Houston Buffaloes (who won 103 games), and the top-level Rochester Red Wings, batting a composite .318 with 23 long balls. He earned cups of coffee in the majors with the Cards in and , and missed the 1943 to 1945 seasons while serving in the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Dusak then returned to the Cardinals from to , primarily as an outfielder, playing some games at second base and thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crimian
John Melvin Crimian (February 17, 1926 – February 11, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-hander, he appeared in 74 total games pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (1951–52), Kansas City Athletics (1956) and Detroit Tigers (1957). The native of Philadelphia was listed at tall and . Biography Crimian attended Olney High School in his native city and signed with his hometown Philadelphia Phillies in 1944. After wartime service in the United States Army in 1945, he returned to baseball in 1946, put up a 13–4 record with the Class B Wilmington Blue Rocks, and was drafted by the Cardinals out of the Phillies' organization that winter. He spent another 4 years in minor league baseball before his call up to St. Louis in July 1951. In his first MLB trial, he got into seven games that month, all in relief, and was treated roughly, allowing 24 hits and eight bases on balls in 17 innings pitched. However, he registered his first big-league victory on Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Collum
John Dean Collum (June 21, 1927 – August 29, 2009) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight different teams between the 1951 and 1962 seasons. Listed at , , Collum batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Victor, Iowa. Collum was one of four children of John Edward Collum and Sophia Louise Lohman and the youngest of three brothers. He was raised in Newburg, Iowa, near Grinnell, and graduated from Newburg High School, where he played in the Iowa State Baseball Tournament. Collum served in World War II with the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, where he was stationed in the Philippines. Following the war he returned home and married Betty Belles on February 28, 1948. He pursued his major league dreams after going 24–2 in 1948 for Class-A St. Joseph team of the Western League. Basically a reliever, Collum also served in starting roles. He entered the major leagues in 1951 with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Brecheen
Harry David Brecheen (, , October 14, 1914 – January 17, 2004), nicknamed "The Cat", was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the St. Louis Cardinals. In the late 1940s he was among the team's stars, in 1946 becoming the first left-hander ever to win three games in a single World Series, and the only pitcher ever to win consecutive World Series games. He later led the National League in several categories in 1948. His career World Series earned run average of 0.83 was a major league record from 1946 to 1976. From 1951 to 1971 he held the Cardinals franchise record for career strikeouts by a left-hander, and he also retired with the fourth-highest fielding percentage among pitchers (.983), then the top mark among left-handers. Early life Born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, he was acquired by the Cardinals in 1938 after two minor league seasons, but did not get a chance to start for the team until 1943. He was nicknamed "The Cat" b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Brazle
Alpha Eugene Brazle (October 19, 1913 – October 24, 1973) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The left-hander was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1936, and later traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitcher Mike Ryba in September, 1940. He played his entire MLB career for the Cards (1943, 1946–1954). In 1954, at the age of 40, he was the oldest player to appear in a National League game that season. After the 1954 season was over, Brazle was signed by the Chicago White Sox. He was subsequently released by Chicago without playing a regular season game for the team. Brazle played 7½ years in the minor leagues before he became a 29-year-old Cardinal rookie. He completed 47 of 117 starts, with 7 shutouts, and twice led the National League in saves (1952 and 1953). Brazle finished in the league's top ten in a dozen pitching categories, including games pitched (7 times), saves (6 times), games finished In baseball statistics, a relief pitcher is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloyd Boyer
Cloyd Victor Boyer Jr. (September 1, 1927 – September 20, 2021) was an American right-handed pitcher and pitching coach in Major League Baseball who played between 1949 and 1955 for the St. Louis Cardinals (1949–52) and Kansas City Athletics (1955). Biography Boyer was born in Alba, Missouri. He was the eldest son in a family that included third basemen Ken Boyer and Clete Boyer. Ken, 1964 National League Most Valuable Player, an 11-time Major League Baseball All-Star and five-time Gold Glove Award winner, had a 15-year big-league career with the Cardinals, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers; Clete won only one Gold Glove because of the presence of Brooks Robinson, but played all or parts of 16 MLB seasons for the Athletics, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves. In a five-season career, Cloyd Boyer posted a 20–23 record with 198 strikeouts and a 4.73 earned run average in 395⅔ innings pitched, including 13 complete games, three shutouts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Bokelmann
Richard Werner Bokelmann (October 26, 1926 – December 27, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals hav ... from 1951 to 1953, making a total of 34 appearances, which included one start. Bokelmann died December 27, 2019. References External links 1926 births 2019 deaths People from Arlington Heights, Illinois Baseball players from Illinois Major League Baseball pitchers St. Louis Cardinals players Columbus Red Birds players Fresno Cardinals players Allentown Cardinals players Omaha Cardinals players Houston Buffaloes players Rochester Red Wings players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Westlake
Waldon Thomas Westlake (November 8, 1920 – September 5, 2019) was a utility player in Major League Baseball who had a ten-year career from 1947 to 1956. Career Born in Gridley, California, Westlake played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies of the National League, and the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles of the American League. He primarily played as an outfielder, with some appearances as a third baseman. Westlake hit for the cycle twice in his career (both while playing for the Pirates), coming almost a year apart; July 30, 1948, against the Brooklyn Dodgers, and June 14, 1949, against the Boston Braves. He was a member of the National League All-Star team in 1951, entering the game as a defensive replacement in the bottom of the 9th inning. He was traded along with Eddie Kazak from the Cardinals to the Reds for Dick Sisler and Virgil Stallcup on May 13, 1952. Westlake was a member of the 1954 Cleveland Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
