Not often does an April baseball game stand the test of time as one of the most significant events in team history, but those who were at Busch II on Saturday night, April 18, 1987, will not soon forget.
The hated “pond scum” New York Mets, defending World Series champions, were in town and jumped off to a 5-0 lead as the 41,942 in attendance mostly sat on the free seat cushions issued to them before the game. But then the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League title that year, rallied for five runs in the fourth, sparked by Jim Lindeman’s two-run double and a few dozen seat cushions came raining onto the field.