I may not be a huge baseball fan, but I can not conatin my excitment. The St. Louis Cardnals Defeated The Houston Astros (sorry edblysard) 5-2. With this win, The Cardnals are going to the world series for the first time since 1987. The Celebration downtown is HUGE!
Got to go!
Your St. Louis Contact…
If only the Twins were there to make it a rematch…(-:
I’m glad to hear that one of Missouri’s teams is going to the World Series. Hopefully this will be a wake up call for our Royals here in KC.
Take care,
Russell
Please take out the Redsox!
We can try to make it “on topic” – has Trains or any other magazine ever run an article on the trains that would have been needed to move teams from one world series city to another in the pre-airline days? Presumably train schedules would have affected world series schedules back then. I have seen pictures of famous ball players posing with train crews but not specifically in relation to world series travel. This would have been a high prestige move for a railroad’s passenger traffic department I would think.
Dave Nelson
I’ve read lots of books on newyork baseball in 40’s - 50’s. I know both the Yanks and Dodgers had special trains to take them from city to city.
I guess if the yanks were hedaing to chicago/clevelnad/detriot it would have been on NYC and if they were heading to philly/washington on PRR. This would make a great article in Trains.
This is a place to talk about TRAINS “not” SPORTS.[:(!]
See above. We are trying to get that going…
BNSF Railfan must have placed a bet on the Astros…hes probably mad cause he owes some one lotsa money
Suppose two teams from the NEC make it to the world series…if they had a “Subway Series”…why not a “Metroliner Series”?
~Ra’akone
Only Two cities could have done a Subway Series. This year, Chicago and New York. There used to be a third. ST. LOUIS…Happened once in 1945, St. Louis Cardnals Vs. St. Louis Browns at Sportsman Park. The Browns left shortly after and went to Baltimore.
As I sit at my desk clad in Cardinal red trying to keep my eyes open after a heavy night of celebration . . . .
Sorry, I just can’t find it in me to feel guilty about saying GO CARDS! on this forum.
Besides, its baseball. It transcends every aspect of American Culture, it is right up their with apple pie and trains.
Gabe
To add to this…
1986 Boston vs Mets - Metroliner Series
1989 Giants vs As - BART Series
Older days…(Subway)
Boston Redsox could have played the Braves
Philles could have played the As
Yes, but did St Louis ever have a subway? Streetcars yes.[;)]
Boston could have had one, with the Red Sox and Braves. Philadelphia also had the A’s and Phillies, but no subway.
In the old days Minneapolis and St Paul had their own teams. They even had crosstown double headers, where both fans and players would ride the streetcar to the second game in the other city. The thing is that the Saints and Millers were not in the majors. Willie Mays actually played for one of them for a short time, but I forget which one. I think it was the Saints.
By the way Go Sox!!![:D]
As a Twins fan I’m not sure I have to remind everyone what happened to the Cardinals in 1987.[swg]
Being a die hard Reds fan… right color wrong teams but will cheer for the team in my own division.
stay safe go cards
Joe
Living in Indy, I have been to Great Amercian Ball Park 7 times this year to see the Cards. Obviously, I root for the Cards, but I have to admit, I kind of like the way Reds do things.
Gabe
Do you mean lose? [:o)]
Sorry, just having fun!
For the record, Big Boy, Philadelphia did have and does have a subway.
Was there ever an EL series in Chicago? This would have been many,many years ago,long before most of us were born,but it could have happened. Did it?
GO RED SOX [:)][:D][8D]!!!
The Terminal RY Assn of St.Louis Historical Society did a feature in their fall 1992 newsletter on the Cardinals & Browns traveling by rail in the pre airline days. Go Cards!!! There isn’t a better town in America full of baseball tradition and railroad tradition than STL. What a great city.