A $10 donation to Salvation Army deposited Thursday morning outside of Schnucks in Clayton earned you two tickets to a Cardinals game next season.
What new slugger will the generous fans see in the middle of the lineup when they make that trip?
And that, for now, is the only fair way to view the news that third baseman Josh Donaldson will not play for the Cardinals. When baseball’s best bounce-back candidate on the free-agent market jumped on the Braves’ offer of $23 million for a season, a potential fit for the Cardinals left the board. So, too, did a competitor in the hunt for a middle-of-the-order hitter.