Lou Adamie was the major league baseball scorekeeper in St. Louis for more than four decades. Working over 4,000 games for both the Browns and Cardinals from 1941 through the 1982 season, Adamie missed only one game in his 42 years of service. He was the official scorekeeper for three All Star Games and eight… Read more »
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Bob “Doc” Bauman
Bauman came to St. Louis University in 1928 while only 19 years old. He served the university as its athletic trainer from 1928 until 1979. In addition, he became the trainer for the St. Louis Browns in 1938 until the team moved to become the Baltimore Orioles in 1953. He was invited to join the… Read more »
St. Louis Browns Baseball Club
The story goes that, after the inaugural 1901 season of the American League, founder Ban Johnson was convinced the circuit could compete in the same major cities as the National League. However, the AL had one issue: Its last-place Milwaukee club needed to be rescued. Thus was born the St. Louis Browns. Relocated thanks to… Read more »
Clark Griffith
Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955), nicknamed “The Old Fox”, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager, and team owner. He began his MLB playing career with the St. Louis Browns (1891), Boston Reds (1891), and Chicago Colts/Orphans (1893–1900). He then served as player-manager for the Chicago White Stockings… Read more »
Don Gutteridge
Don Gutteridge is a native of Pittsburgh, Kansas. His major league baseball career begin in 1936 with the St. Louis Cardinals. A skilled second baseman, the high point in Gutteridge’s career came on his second day in the big leagues. In a double header at Ebbets Field, the rookie got six hits, including an inside… Read more »
Vern Kennedy
Lloyd Vernon Kennedy, a Kansas City native, was a big-league baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Kennedy, who batted left-handed and threw right-handed, attended college at what is now known as the University of Central Missouri, where the football field… Read more »
Satchel Paige
Paige was an American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball made him a legend in his lifetime. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted based upon his play in the Negro leagues. Paige was a right-handed pitcher and was… Read more »
Roy Sievers
Sievers is a former first baseman/left fielder in major league baseball. From 1949 through 1965, Sievers played for the St. Louis Browns (1949–53), the original Washington Senators (1954–59), Chicago White Sox (1960–61), Philadelphia Phillies (1962–64), and finally the new Senators (1964–65). Signed by the St. Louis Browns as a free agent in 1947, Sievers debuted… Read more »
George Sisler
George Sisler was highly thought of as both a person and a ballplayer during his day. A five-tool player before the term came into vogue, Sisler finished his career as one of the game’s greatest hitters. After graduating with a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan in 1915, a rarity for ball-players at… Read more »
Charles Evard “Gabby” Street
It is doubtful that Charles Evard Street will be recognized as one of the great catchers in the Deadball Era of major league baseball. Chances are excellent that many baseball fans may not recall him at all. For Gabby, it was outside the white lines of a baseball diamond that brought him the most notoriety.… Read more »