ABOUT US
STLSportsPage.com– a free, quick-loading, mobile-friendly website —features veteran baseball writer Rob Rains covering the Cardinals on a daily basis, with game stories, features, audio and video. There are also articles about local food and entertainment as well as travel and health.
STLSportsPage.com is the home of the popular “Rains on the Cardinals” Podcast featuring Rob Rains and Mike Rains. The podcast is recorded approximately once a week, usually on off-days for the Cardinals. To find out more, subscribe to our Free Newsletter which alerts to the latest podcast. You can also find the podcast on your favorite podcast platform.
The site was started in 2012 by sports writer / author Rob Rains and Sally Tippett Rains, a former sports reporter / producer for KMOX Radio in St. Louis.
The site was started as a supplement to a radio show Rob Rains and his son, BJ Rains did in St. Louis in 2012 but it quickly grew beyond expectations and when the show ended due to station format change, the advertisers were all asked if they wanted to stay on and most did.
In 2024, Rob Rains’ other son, Mike Rains joined the staff.
STLSportsPage.com’s Motto
Any GOOD we can do with this site we’ll do it; any FUN we can have with it, we’ll do that too.
Our Priorities
- Grateful to God
- Love of Family
- Love of Baseball and sharing it with others
- Love of our Community
- Open-minded, respect and love for all
- Commitment to Journalistic values; positivity, and integrity.
- Our Readers- Encouraging them to live full, happy and health lives… including Baseball and Family!
STLSportsPage.com’s Mission Statement:
We strive to… Be the best sports site in St. Louis; aim for excellence, report with integrity on sports and other topics of interest to our audience; appreciate our readers and inspire them to enjoy sports; promote charity whenever possible; always remembering this is our family business– and giving all glory to God.
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Rob Rains- Editor-in-Chief: CLICK HERE
Mike Rains- “Rains on the Cardinals” Podcast: CLICK HERE
Suzanne Corbett- Food / Travel Editor: CLICK HERE
Sally Tippett Rains- Content Editor, Writer, Marketting: CLICK HERE
Recognitions:
STLSportsPage.com is recognized by MLB as a credentialed outlet. Rob Rains is a member of Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) and has a vote for the various awards including Baseball Hall of Fame. Rob Rains is a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Red Ribbon Committee which votes on recommendations for the ballots for the Red Jacket Hall of Famers.
Rob Rains: Missouri Sportswriter of the Year
Awarded in 2025 from the National Sports Media Association
Rob Rains: Missouri Sports Hall of Fame
Sally and Rob Rains: 2021 Citizens of the Year
In 2021- Rob and Sally Rains were named “Citizens of the Year” for their charity work through Rainbows for Kids working with Watson Trails Park to build a wheel chair accessible playground.
The Rainses have run Rainbows for Kids since their family started it in 1999. They are volunteers as are all involved with the charity.
In 2019 as part of their 20th Anniversary they decided to investigate the possibility of helping build a wheel chair accessible playground. Using charitable donations to Rainbows for Kids in memory of their parents, Margie and Jack Tippett as seed money to get the development for the playground started.
Sally and Rob Rains: St. Louis Media Hall of Fame, 2018
Sally and Rob Rains were inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame in 2018– the first inductees in the area of Online Media. They were selected because of STLSportsPage.com.
STLSportsPage.com is unique for a privately owned sports website as it is was approved by the Baseball W
STLSportsPage.com is A Different Kind of Cardinals News Outlet
We care about our readers… and along with our professional Cardinals coverage from 45-year BBWAA Beat Writer, Rob Rains, and our “Rains on the Cardinals” Podcast featuring Rains and Mike Rains– we offer free events, contests to win Cardinals tickets and other great prizes, and additional articles about food, travel, entertainment and what to do around St. Louis.
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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED BY STLSportsPage:
*NCAA Bracket Challenge-
Thanks to MB Health Insurance Agency and Drury Hotels
2025 Selection Sunday Pizza Party at
Homewood Suites at Spring Training 
Past Events:
“Rob Rains’ Spring Training Baseball Bash”- March 11, 2025
Rob Rains, Pedro Pages, Thomas Saggese, Mike Rains
“Spring Training 2025 on STLSportsPage.com ” is sponsored in part by AAA Travel.
“Opening Day 2024 Party” at Helen Fitzgeralds, Sponsored by THE RAWLINGS EXPERIENCE- STL.
We had fun with our team at our 2024 Opening Day Luncheon.
Spring Training 2024
Upcoming Events:
*** We currently have no free events scheduled but check back for events to be added.
1) Events will be announced, check back for details
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And you find out about our free events.
Tower Tee Event Fall, 2023
Frank Cusumano and Bob Ramsey came to our event which was free to all readers, at Tower Tee Golf. 
Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend Luncheon- 2023
We had a great time with the knowledgeable women Cardinals fans who attended this luncheon, which was free for our community. Those who attended were treated to a free luch, sponsored by Kuna FoodService at Helen Fitzgerald’s Restaurant
“HOT STOVE LEAGUE PARTY” AT HELEN FITZGERALD’S IN ST. LOUIS
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Memories from 2025 Baseball Bash and other Baseball Bashes and events sponsored by STL Sports Page through the years…
Special guests were Pedro Pages and Thomas Saggese
2023 Baseball Bash: Victor Scott II and Matthew Liberatore, special guests.
Photo below shows Rob Rains, Zach Thompson, Brendan Donovan and Mike Trim from WPTV, West Palm Beach. 
SPRING TRAINING ARCHIVES
A look at some of our fun parties… For many years we have been having special Spring Training Bash Parties which benefitted charity– Rainbows for Kids and Leukemia Society of Palm Beach
Photo from the 2022 Baseball Bash:
Ricky Horton was our guest of honor in 2022 at the Annual Rob Rains’ STLSportsPage.com Spring Training Charity Party It was great to have people back in a safe, outdoor setting at the Homewood Suites. Be sure to find out when our 2023 party will be before you make your plans for Spring Training so you can join the fun! 
Photo from the 2020 Baseball Bash:
This may have been the last “party” or large crowd gathering you attended for at least a year if you were there. It was held on March 12, 2020 and just as it was about to start we received word that MLB had cancelled the remainder part of Spring Training– due to the start of the COVID-19 closings. 
The day the 2020 Baseball Bash was the day of the last Spring Training game. We had a player scheduled and due to “circumstances beyond their control” he could not attend. There was a great, enthusiastic crowd and the fans had a fun time despite what was happening.
Photos from the 2019 Bash:
Mike Trim WPTV West Palm Beach, Cardinals pitcher Daniel Ponce de Leon, Rob Rains
For the past several years The Homewood Suites has teamed up with STLSportspage.com to put on a charity event which benefits Rainbows for Kids in St. Louis and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Palm Beach. The event is free of charge and open to all fans of STLSportsPage.com and any guests staying at the Homewood Suites. Carson Kelly was the guest last year, shown in photo with Mike Trim of WPTV News in West Palm Beach and Rob Rains.
The Spring Training Charity Bash features free food and drink as well as a silent auction, but the highlight of the event has always been a player from the St. Louis Cardinals who attends and entertains on a sports panel with Trim and Rains.
Trim, a Cardinals fan, originally from Hermann, MO is a television anchor and always donates his time to do the panel with Rob Rains of STLSportsPage.com. The photo, above, right is the 2017 event featuring Aledmys Diaz.
After the panel discussion there was a barbecue and the Cardinals fans got to eat hamburgers and hot dogs. 
The best part of the party is raising money for two great charities. Proceeds from the Baseball Bash are divided between the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Palm Beach and Rainbows for Kids in St. Louis. Tyler Hammond, shown in photo below was a member of Rainbows for Kids when he was a child. He had multiple organ transplants, but was able to participate on the Rainbows for Kids Baseball Team and all the activities designed for families with children in treatment. He has now graduated from college and is a volunteer with the organization. He is shown in the picture with Daniel Ponce de Leon. 
Plan a trip to Spring Training and join us at the party! 
Rob Rains interviews Daniel Ponce de Leon at the 2019 Baseball Bash.
2018- Kolten Wong
2017- Carson Kelly
Carson Kelly was the special guest in 2017. Television anchor Mike Trim of WPTV always chips in and is seen in the photo above with Kelly and Rob Rains.
2016- Aledmys Diaz
Aledmys Diaz signs autographs at the 2016 Baseball Bash.
2015- Mitch Harris
Mike Trim, WPTV Anchor, Mitch Harris, Rob Rains
2014- Matt Carpenter
Terry Boegel getting Matt Carpenter’s autograph at the Baseball Bash.
Karen Rains, Rob Rains, Matt Carpenter, Sally Rains.
2013- Trevor Rosenthal
riters Association of America as a recognized MLB credentialed site.
