Ex-Cardinals returning to Busch Stadium: A Thread

8/11/17: Matt Adams
4/18/15: Skip Schumaker
8/6/14: Joe Kelly
9/4/15: Jon Jay

Instead of the managers going out with the score cards both teams agreed to send a player out. The Cardinals chose the 🐐 of course and the Padres let Jon Jay go meet his old teammate and hear it from the fans. Great moment.
6/25/19: Stephen Piscotty

After requesting a trade to be closer to his mother while she battled with ALS in his hometown of Pleasanton, California, the Athletics agreed. He said he was extremely grateful to both teams. She passed away sadly and this was his 1st time back.
5/7/16: David Freese

The first hometown hero that established a common phrase in St. Louis sports lingo, “Game 6.”
6/21/19: Albert Pujols

Stan the Man and the Machine. That’s it. Those are the only two arguable greatest position Cardinal players in history. While his departure is still argued upon his stats aren’t. Hard to find anyone that had a better 10-year run in baseball’s long history.
4/18/16: Jason Heyward

If you wear the uniform and do it justice on and off the field you have a fan base for the rest of your career. But with that being said, if you leave and talk trash to another team’s reporters, you’ll hear about it. Cough* cough* this guy.
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