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Bernie: Cardinals needed a shortstop? Here's Jhonny!

Did you enjoy Jhonny Peralta's game-winning homer on Wednesday night at Wrigley Field?

Thought so.

Until Peralta signed on with the Cardinals in 2014, those big moments had largely been missing from the shortstop position for a long time.

Until Peralta's arrival, shortstop was a bus stop for the Cardinals for too many years.

It wasn't always this way, of course.

For 15 years until his retirement after the 1996 season, Ozzie Smith made play after incredible play, turning the expanse between second base and third base into the yellow brick road that led The Wizard to Cooperstown and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.