St Louis Cardinals baseball team

01/17/10 8:20 PM EST ST. LOUIS — In what will surely go down as one of the more memorable days in the history of the Cardinals Care Winter Warm-Up, Mark McGwire emerged to a rock-concert atmosphere, received a hero's welcome from still-adoring fans, then faced a chaotic news conference in a dark, cramped hotel hallway [...]

01/16/10 7:37 PM EST ST. LOUIS — Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak admitted that he was "disappointed" with Mark McGwire's recent admission of past steroid use, but said Saturday that the club would have hired McGwire to be its hitting coach even if it had known in advance that McGwire would make the announcement. In [...]

01/16/10 12:00 AM EST ST. LOUIS — First he was a prospect, then a rising star. For a while, the descriptions came with a qualifier: "one of the best young players in the game." The past few years, Albert Pujols has outgrown any qualifiers for his greatness. Today, he officially dispenses with that description as [...]

01/13/10 5:11 PM EST Welcome to the latest Cardinals Inbox. As always, if you have a question, use the link below to submit it — and please be sure to include your first name, last initial and hometown. If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the word [...]

01/12/10 7:37 PM EST ST. LOUIS — Long the most public and vocal of Mark McGwire's defenders, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said on Tuesday that he has no regrets about his vociferous support of McGwire over the years. McGwire admitted on Monday that he used steroids repeatedly during his Major League playing career, confirming [...]

01/11/10 9:33 PM EST ST. LOUIS — Mark McGwire apologized profusely and repeatedly for his actions on Monday. Just as emphatically, though, he refused to apologize for his statistics. McGwire ended more than a decade of speculation when he acknowledged that he used steroids during much of his Major League playing career, including in 1998, [...]

01/08/10 7:36 PM EST ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals don't have to go to Plan B. However, Plan A is not completely finished yet. "Plan B" became the catch-all term for what St. Louis would do if it was unable to retain the services of Matt Holliday. Plan A, of course, was to bring back [...]

01/07/10 4:14 PM EST ST. LOUIS — After agreeing on a seven-year deal with the Cardinals with an option for 2017 for a guaranteed $120 million — the richest contract in club history — Matt Holliday was introduced to the media on Thursday. "I think first and foremost, their commitment to winning," Holliday said when [...]

01/06/10 10:38 PM EST ST. LOUIS — Ryan Ludwick wasn't following the Matt Holliday saga too closely, but he only had to check his messages to know that it had come to a conclusion. The announcement that Holliday had re-signed with the Cardinals suddenly made Ludwick a very popular man. "I've got to return a [...]

01/05/10 8:46 PM EST ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals got their man. Matt Holliday got his contract. Holliday announced on Tuesday that he is coming back to the Cardinals on a seven-year deal with an option for 2017, agreeing to a guaranteed $120 million — the richest contract in club history. He announced his decision [...]