⚾️ Century tribute ⚾️ Following the historic 1926 St Louis Cardinals season and first World Series Championship.
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**BREAKING**
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12, 1926—While the Cardinals celebrate their world championship, their American League neighbors are making headlines of a different sort. George Sisler, one of baseball's greatest hitters, is OUT as manager of the St. Louis Browns!
The former Michigan star joined the Browns in 1915 & became one of the game's greatest batsmen. In 1922, he hit an astonishing .420 & stole 51 bases! Sinus trouble cost him the entire 1923 season, but he returned to the diamond & eventually resumed his duties as player-manager.
ST. LOUIS STAR & TIMES
Highlights from 1926 World Series Champion #StlCards homecoming to St. Louis, Oct 11, 1926:
Rogers Hornsby being escorted from the train by two police sergeants when the Cardinals arrived home
Along with the clownish #StlCards booster, Theodore Harris, a cripple, who came here from Illinois in an electric wheel chair to cheer his favorites.
SPORTSMAN'S PARK
Oct 11, 1926
By 7 o'clock the old section of the grandstand was literally jammed. The aisles were crowded, 15 to 20 persons were standing in each of the boxes and there was a triple row behind the upper rails of both decks.
Every age and state of life was in that crowd in living testimonial to the catholicity of baseball's appeal. There were schoolboys of all ages and sizes, young mothers with babes in their arms, older mothers who were escorted to their chairs by grown sons.
Oct 11, 1926
Bedlam at Sportsman's Park
The civic homecoming celebration for the world champion #StlCards was drowned out tonight in the flood of enthusiasm of more than 30,000 frantic fans who jammed the dimly lit stands of Sportsman's Park and overflowed on the playing field.
After almost an hour of milling & struggling, the lights in the improvised speakers' stand were turned out, the ball players were escorted through the crowd to automobiles, and the incoherent celebration was over as far as the team was concerned.
