Brad Ausmus

What is your favorite childhood memory of the World Series? Kirk Gibson hitting the home run off Dennis Eckersley [to win Game 1 in 1988]. I wasn't a closer when I was growing up [in Englewood, Colo.]. I was an...

ST. LOUIS -- Really, what more was there to say? After seizing the NL wild card despite a 15-30 start, after winning the National League Division Series on an 18-inning game, after advancing to the World Series...

Here we are, roughly one-fifth into the 2005 season, which is roughly two innings into a nine-inning game, roughly 5 1/4 miles into a marathon, or roughly 29 minutes into the interminably long Kingdom of Heaven....

Listen up: Tony La Russa's telling secrets. We've just finished dinner, and now the few who have lingered here at this sports bar across the street from the Cardinals' spring training stadium in Jupiter, Fla., are...