Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you’ve enjoyed, and are continuing to enjoy, whatever you celebrate this time of year. Between Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve and Day, there are ample opportunities this time of year to celebrate good times (come on!). With that in mind, I want to turn the off-season retrospective series to another opportunity to celebrate good times in St. Louis- a celebration to last throughout the years. So bring your good times, and your laughter too, we’re gonna look at the Cardinals before 1982.
Recapping 1981
The story of the 1981-1982 Cardinals off-season begins a year before, in August 1980 when Whitey Herzog took over as General Manager of a stale franchise lacking an identity.