The Real Mount Rushmore!

[St. Louis, Missouri, USA]  After more than 8,500 votes, 173 comments, dozens of spin-off threads, a few lively exchanges over at the Facebook page, and the hours of one talented Post-Dispatch illustrator, it is time to unveil the monument that you helped chisel: The St. Louis Cardinals Mount Rushmore. Back during the limbo between playoff series, Bird Land asked the simple question: What four members from Cardinals’ history would you carve into a Mount Rushmore of the franchise? We called it The Rushmore Project. 

A total of 8,552 people voted, at least check, on the Rushmore Project, and each of the four faces above received at least 40 percent of the vote. Three of the players featured above are Hall of Famers, and the third is well on his way after just winning the second MVP of his career. 

• Musial, of course, led the way, with 8,274 votes, begging the question who were the 3 percent of voters who left him off? 
• Bob Gibson received 7,728 votes (90 percent). 
• In a show of strength from the current generation of Cards Nation, Pujols received 5,087 votes (59 percent), and 
• Ozzie Smith received 3,523 votes (41 percent). 

It can be argued that the Cardinals’ Rushmore above features the franchise’s best player, best pitcher, best hitter and best fielder — the four very definitions of the disciplines it takes to play baseball. Hall of Famers Lou Brock (34 percent), Jack Buck (32 percent), Rogers Hornsby (21 percent) and Red Schoendienst (11 percent) completed the top eight.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/11/the-st-louis-cardinals-mount-rushmore/

The Pooch Dog back...

My favorite Cardinals memory #1: back-to-back home runs by Bob Gibson and Lou Brock.

My favorite Cardinals memory #2: Ozzie's diving catch under a diving outfielder.  (I was at game.)

My worst Cardinals memory: Denkinger!  (I'd sink my canines into his sorry flank, except he apologized to our organization, and I've become convinced he's a good guy who would willingly share his dog dish with me.)