Baseball: Redbirds on the Grapefruit

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Then the World Champion Cards showed what they could do, choking off a bases-loaded, nobody-out rally in the ninth inning to beat the New York Mets 2-1. "We ought to be stronger than last year," said Schoendienst. Oddsmakers picked the Cardinals as no better than third choice (behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies) to win their way into another World Series. But who cares about odds anyway? Last year on August 1 the Cards were still in sixth place.

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