(Part 2) Top products from r/Cardinals

My grandparents were from Missouri and my mother was born here in St. Louis in 1960. They moved around afterwards, but after I was born in Dallas in 1982, the Cards won it all and we moved back to St. Louis. I can't remember a time when I wasn't watching the Cardinals. My first memory, I think, is of the 1985 post season. I don't have any specific memories other than Ozzie doing backflips. He was and remains my all time favorite player. The rest of the 80's were fun, we went to plenty of games at Busch II. The strike hurt me and a lot of other people's view of the sport and it was the McGwire/Sosa race that brought me back. I think it brought baseball back for a lot of people. Over the course of time, I have watched the consistent character and philosophy of what makes up the Cardinal way blossom into a model for the rest of baseball. I value honor and sportsmanship and I think that the organization exemplifies that, and so do the fans. I can't imagine rooting for another team, just like I can't imagine living in another city. I can't remember a time without them.

Edit - I just wanted to add that if you like hearing people's stories about the Cardinals, I highly recommend this book. It is exactly like our thread here, with people talking about their fandom and sharing their favorite Cardinals memories. I met the author when I bought it and he was a great guy, a true Cardinals fan's fan. He signed the book and added little specifics of what we had been talking about just from memory. Awesome dude.

best way to learn about things is to read about them; luckily baseball is easy to read about because it's amazing

http://www.amazon.com/Stan-Musial-An-American-Life/dp/0345517075

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Nights-August-Strategy-Heartbreak/dp/B002CMLRAQ

http://www.amazon.com/October-1964-David-Halberstam/dp/0449983676

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677858.The_Spirit_of_St_Louis

can vouch for all of those. also if you're a new fan of baseball, you should read baseball books in general because the history of the sport is incredibly rich. feel free to ask

Of course! If you're interested in this sort of thing, I really recommend checking out The Book that I keep referencing. The author used to work for the Mariners, and has recently been working for the Cubs quite a bit as a statistical analyst. He also has a pretty interesting blog.

It has a bunch of analysis on stuff like this, and it's made me think about different aspects of the sport differently. I base a lot of my baseball comments on it now as well. I'm just finishing the last few chapters of it right now, and I love it

I have The Spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns. It goes pretty in depth and also has the history of the Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles). I really enjoyed it. However, it is very long and it only goes up to the end of the 90's.

I have St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present which covers their history up to 2009 and features a lot of photos. Good gift material.

Another interesting book is Jon David Cash's Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis. It came out in 2002 originally (Achorn cites Cash in his bibliography for his book).

Cash's book has a wider scope than the 1883 season, though, since it gives some good St. Louis baseball background from the '70s on and goes through the 1890s.

I highly recommend this book - Bob Forsch's Tales from the Cardinal Dugout.

Well let me suggest a book for you then, if for no one else. I’m gonna pick it up tomorrow.

https://www.amazon.com/Burying-Black-Sox-Baseballs-Succeeded/dp/1597971081

This book is the result of years of research into the 1919 Black Sox scandal and it brings a ton of glossed over info to light. I have a theory on a seemingly unrelated issue that I believe this book will support, plus it’s been 100 years since they threw the series and I thought it would be cool to take a look at it now.

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618710531/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_sjzBDbZFEQV2B

Here's his autobiography

its only $10 on amazon

I just ordered this and had it shipped to Madison Bumgarner at the Giants' address.

Or this one.

Best damn investment for the kitchen I have ever made was a rice cooker. Second best was a sous vide circulator.

I eat rice everyday because I found that I get sleepy and tired when I eat a lot of gluten.

Also, read "The Summer of Beer and Whisky" How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game - by Edward Achorn.

The story follows Chris Von Der Ahe and his acquisition of a baseball team in order to sell more beer. That team was to become the St. Louis Cardinals. The book follows the 1883 Pennant race with the Philadelphia Athletics.

The Summer of Beer and Whisky

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No, no, no. I found it on the internet - Thorndike Barnhart.

Here's book one

Medium-to-high fantasy, very intriguing worldbuilding mechanics, and excessively well-developed characters. Starts slow, but I think it's worth the build.

E: Fucking hell, it's supposed to be a 10-part series. That finished series will weigh more than some houses by the time it's done.

For CCENT/CCNA, the labs can cover everything which is listed in the syllabus online for that test. For CCNA, your layer 2 stuff (i.e learning and forwarding, vlans, etc), and L3 stuff (subnetting, major routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, inter-vlan routing, etc...). Labs, in general, could be some sort of troubleshooting scenario, where something is wrong and you have figure out the problem and fix it, or simply just figure out what the problem is. It could also be something where they give you a scenario with specs, and a topology, and they want you to configure the devices to meet the specs.

As far as resources which I used to study, I solely used this book called CCNA in 60 days. With this book you can either do the single test to get the CCNA, or the 2 test route, which it sounds like the option you're going for. The place I work at happened to have some old equipment they weren't using anymore so I had real hardware to practice on.