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All Roads Lead to St. Louis: A Guide to the Cardinals and Their Minor League Teams

by Rob Rains (Author), Sally Rains (Author), John Rooney(Foreword)

Paperback – July 2025

NOTE: This book was originally written before the pandemic and much of the information has changed and so much more added– so be sure you get the NEW version– with the Foreword by John Rooney.

Sally and Rob Rains traveled to see all of the Cardinals U.S. – based affiliates plus spring training and the Arizona Fall League– several times in one year– to put together this guidebook to help fans plan their own baseball trips. The book is full of the rich history of the St. Louis Cardinals and their minor league system as only the longtime Cardinals baseball beat writer Rob Rains can tell it. Rains is the longest-tenured baseball writer in St. Louis having broken into the profession in 1980.

John Rooney, the radio voice of the Cardinals on KMOX Radio in St. Louis and the Cardinals network, wrote the Foreword. Rooney, shown with Vince Coleman and Rob Rains in the photo left knows the minors himself having started in the St. Louis Cardinals organization in 1983 as the play-by-play voice of the then-AAA Louisville Redbirds. Rooney is in his 21st season of broadcasting Cardinals games, and 2025 is his 54th year in broadcasting.

Whether it’s spring training; traveling to minor league towns or watching the Cardinals at Busch Stadium or on the road; wherever there is baseball, memories will be made. The Rainses goal with the book is to promote the love of baseball by taking your family on road trips to Cardinals games and making trips to their minor leagues and spring training.

All Roads Lead to St. Louis; A Guide to the Cardinals and Their Minor League Teams includes information about the teams, the histories of their ballparks, recommendations of restaurants, hotels and other tourist attractions in the areas-plus Adam Wainwright adds a few of his personal recommendations.

The Cardinals have long relied on their player development system as their primary pipeline for players. For Cardinal fans, making road trips to see those players when they are in the minors is a fun and worthwhile experience. Grab your family and this guidebook and start your baseball adventures.

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About the Authors:

Rob Rains

Rob Rains was awarded Missouri Sportswriter of the Year at The National Sports Media Association (NSMA) Awards Ceremony June 2025.

He has covered the Cardinals for 45 years and 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. Based in St. Louis, Rains is often a guest on Frank Cusumano’s radio show in St. Louis and with Ned Reynolds in Springfield, Illinois. 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.

Sally Rains

Sally Tippett Rains is the content manager at StLSportsPage.com. Sally met her husband Rob Rains in the pressbox at Busch Stadium while she was covering the Cardinals for KMOX Radio (writing and producing for Bob Costas, Jack Buck, and Bill Wilkerson) in the late 1970′s, early ’80′s.

Sally Rains worked in radio sports for five years and then switched to book writing and charity work while raising their children. She is the author of 11 books including, “Choose Happy; Find Contentment in Any Situation” and “All Roads Lead to St. Louis; Guide to the Cardinals and their Minor League Teams” with Rob Rains; “Drills and Skills for Basketball” co-written with basketball coach Rich Grawer, and the award winning “The Making Of A Masterpiece, The True Story of Margaret Mitchell’s Classic Novel Gone With The Wind,” and is Volunteer Executive Director of Rainbows for Kids.