The St. Louis Cardinals have a happy link to the otherwise infamous 1919 Chicago Black Sox through a tiny hurler who accomplished the “greatest pitching feat of all time.”
A century ago (how time flies!), the Chicago White Sox lost the World Series in suspicious fashion to the underdog Cincinnati Reds five games to three. Two of Chicago’s three victories occurred with five-foot-seven-inch rookie lefty Dickey Kerr, one of the “clean Sox,” on the mound.
Twenty-one years later, Kerr would tutor a nineteen-year-old Cardinals prospect named Stan Musial, encouraging the kid to concentrate on hitting when the youngster injured his pitching shoulder.