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Rob Rains , who runs STLSportsPage.com was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, St. Louis Media HOF 2018, and is a former National League beat writer for USA Today’s Baseball Weekly. For three years he covered the Cardinals for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat until its demise in the 1980s. Rains was awarded the Freedom Forum Grant to teach Journalism for a year at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State. Now based in St. Louis, Rains is often a guest on Frank Cusumano’s Pressbox Show on 590AM and has been writing books, magazine articles, and covers the Cardinals and Blues for STLSportsPage.com. He has written or co-written more than 30 books, most on baseball, including autobiographies or biographies of Ozzie Smith, Jack Buck, and Red Schoendienst. Rains volunteers his time helping run Rainbows for Kids, a 501 (c)(3) charity for families of children with cancer in the Greater St. Louis Area.
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Longtime Cardinals catcher Ted Simmons elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

December 8, 2019 Rob Rains 0

Longtime Cardinals catcher Ted Simmons was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday night by a select veterans committee. […]

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Lane Thomas excited by opportunity that could be waiting for him next spring with Cardinals

November 19, 2019 Rob Rains 0

Lane Thomas is preparing for what should be waiting for him next spring – a chance to win a starting outfield spot with the Cardinals. […]

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Mike Shildt’s emotional week includes being named the NL Manager of the Year

November 12, 2019 Rob Rains 0

Mike Shildt was named the NL Manager of the Year on Tuesday night in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. […]

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Adam Wainwright coming back to pitch for Cardinals in 2020 because he didn’t think it was time to quit

November 12, 2019 Rob Rains 0

Adam Wainwright is coming back to pitch for the Cardinals next season because he didn’t think now was the time to quit. […]

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Improving offense is Cardinals biggest off-season priority – how to do it is the question

November 5, 2019 Rob Rains 0

Last off-season the Cardinals knew they had to improve their defense and baserunning, then did that this season. Now, they want to do the same with their offense. […]

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More than just lookalikes, Andy Van Slyke and Rick Gray share vision to help change lives and rehab neighborhoods

November 4, 2019 Rob Rains 0

This is the story of how a former major-league star, Andy Van Slyke, and a former prison inmate, Rick Gray, have joined forces on a program to change lives and rehab neighborhoods. […]

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Eight moves which should be on the Cardinals “to do” list this winter, including trading for Mookie Betts

November 1, 2019 Rob Rains 0

A look at eight moves that could and should be on the Cardinals “to-do” list this winter, including trading for the Red Sox’ Mookie Betts. […]

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Cardinals top off-season priority has to be figuring out who their outfielders will be next year

October 17, 2019 Rob Rains 0

There are a lot of questions the Cardinals will need to answer this winter but the most pressing has to be who will be in their outfield next season. […]

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Cardinals can’t recover from Nationals’ seven-run first inning that sweeps them out of NLCS

October 15, 2019 Rob Rains 0

The Cardinals gave up seven runs in the first inning and could not recover from that deficit and were swept out of the postseason on Tuesday night by the Nationals. […]

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Nationals blow out Cardinals to take commanding 3-0 lead in NL Championship Series

October 14, 2019 Rob Rains 0

The Nationals took a commanding three games to none lead on the Cardinals in the NL Championship Series with an 8-1 win Monday night in Washington, D.C. […]

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