Just a great read on The Old Redhead who turns 90 soon.  Please live forever...

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The Commish says "thank you."

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It seems a good time to bump this with Red's 90th birthday officially today.

Happy birthday Red! A true icon of St.Louis baseball.

Happy birthday, Red!

I have forgotten the book's title, but that old book about Red was the first book that I ever read cover to cover. I'd love to go back and read it again. I just tried to Google it, but came up empty. It must have been around the 2nd or 3rd grade. I checked it out of the library and I remember that I didn't want to give it back.

pugsleyaddams wrote: I have forgotten the book's title, but that old book about Red was the first book that I ever read cover to cover. I'd love to go back and read it again. I just tried to Google it, but came up empty. It must have been around the 2nd or 3rd grade. I checked it out of the library and I remember that I didn't want to give it back.

The school library at Normandy Jr. High may have had that same book; the one I'm thinking of was called "The Red Schoendienst Story" and ends with his rejoining the Cards in 1961.

However, it wasn't the first baseball book I ever read - the first one I ever read was Rosenburg's "The Story of Baseball" (1970 edition) and I still have it.  The Schoendienst book was next, and then in the fall of 1970 I finally found (and read) Bob Gibson's first autobiography, "From Ghetto to Glory".  Finally, for Christmas of 1970, my parents got me the first MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia, and I still have that one in a box somewhere as well.

Another early baseball book I read was "Big League Batboy", written by the Cardinals' batboy, Jerry Gibson, after the 1968 season, although I didn't get to read that one until 1971.  Picked up a copy of it on Ebay a few years ago.

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--- Jmodene1 wrote:

The school library at Normandy Jr. High may have had that same book; the one I'm thinking of was called "The Red Schoendienst Story" and ends with his rejoining the Cards in 1961.

The Schoendienst book was next, and then in the fall of 1970 I finally found (and read) Bob Gibson's first autobiography, "From Ghetto to Glory". 

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By George(Or should I say "by Red"?) that was the name of Red's book, JMo. The first 4 books that I read cover to cover with my own free will as a kid were:

1. "The Red Shoendienst Story"
2. "From Ghetto to Glory"
3. "For Those I Loved", by Martin Gray. A riveting book about a young Jewish lad's experience during Poland's Nazi occupation.
4. "Playboy's" May 1973 issue...well it wasn't exactly a book, but it sure held your attention like one.
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Thanks for the memory--I am pretty sure The Red Schoendienst story was the first Cards' baseball book I read.  I'm not sure where it ended up when my mom moved out of the old family house.  I still remember his eye injury and his tryout for the Cards from that book....There was a series of fictional books with each one featuring a different player at a different position.  I think those might have been the first baseball books.  No idea what they were called.