Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

On March 13, 1954, Milwaukee Braves left fielder Bobby Thomson fractured his ankle while sliding into second base during a spring training game.

The first successful installation of a Speedramp, spring of 1954, was in the Hudson and Manhattan RR Station in Jersey City to connect the Erie RR to the Hudson & Manhattan Tubes.

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label, and the band's first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City.

As Gabler intended, " Rock Around the Clock " was first issued in the spring of 1954 as a B-side to " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town ).

Finally he returned to the novel in 1953, after finishing The Last Battle in the spring of that year and completed early in 1954.

The following spring, Taylor sent Lady Angela to be bred to Nearco once again, then shipped her to his farm in Canada later in 1953, and in 1954, Lady Angela foaled a colt in Canada named Nearctic who was voted the 1958 Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year.

In spring 1954, he made the college baseball varsity team.

Upon Toscanini's retirement in the spring of 1954, NBC disbanded the orchestra, much to Toscanini's distress.

Toscanini's final two broadcast programs, in the spring of 1954, were experimentally recorded in stereo, but he did not approve the release of these items ; many years passed before they were finally issued on labels other than RCA Victor.

The deal was a straight stock transfer ( three shares of Hudson listed at 11⅛, for two shares of AMC and one share of Nash-Kelvinator listed at 17⅜, for one share of AMC ) and finalized in the spring of 1954, forming the fourth-biggest auto company in the U. S. with assets of US $ 355 million ( US $ in dollars ) and more than $ 100 million in working capital.

In the spring of 1955, under their second commander / leader ( September 1954 – February 1957 ), Captain Jacksel M. Broughton, they moved to the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak aircraft, in which they performed 91 air shows, and received their first assigned support aircraft, a C-119 Flying Boxcar.

In the spring of 1954, ETRC moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and on May 16 of that year it began its operation as a " network ".

After being recalled back to China in April 1952, Peng succeeded Zhou in managing the day-to-day affairs of the Central Military Commission in July 1952 ; and, in the spring of 1954, Peng was confirmed as the vice-chairman of the Commission ( Mao was its chairman ), becoming effectively the most senior military leader in China.

The first attempt on Makalu was made by an American team led by William Siri in the spring of 1954.

After his arrival at Braniff in late spring 1965, Lawrence cancelled most of the remaining BAC-111 on order ( from orders placed under Charles Beard, President from 1954 to 1965 ) in favor of the larger Boeing 727 trijet.

The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university.

As work neared completion on the lab and other facilities in the spring of 1954 the mission of Fort Terry changed.

In the spring of 1954, an operation to treat a malignant brain tumor left him blind and forced him to retire.

* Flag Officer, Training Squadron ( HMS Victorious 1948-1950, 1954 spring cruise included HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable )

Auto manufacturers are still trying to catch up with the combination of features offered by this 1954 suspension system, typically by adding layers of complexity to an ordinary steel spring mechanical system.

During spring training in 1954, it was reported that White Sox manager Paul Richards was not pleased with Carrasquel's lack of effort on the field.

A huge effort to map the area in a 15-mile wide strip across the entire country was started by Transport Command almost immediately, and ended by the spring of 1954.

You see yourself coming awake any one of a thousand mornings between the spring of 1954, and that of 1958 ‑ alone in a double bed in a big white house deep in suburban Sherman Oaks, not far from Hollywood.

After La Russa retired as manager of the Cardinals in 2011, Smith became active in the organization again, starting with his stint as a special instructor for the team's 2012 spring training camp.

* Jupiter is the home to the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals spring training facilities as well as one of their respective Class A Minor League Baseball affiliates, the Jupiter Hammerheads and Palm Beach Cardinals.

Lou Brock was part of the Cardinals ' coaching staff during the team's 2005 spring training.

The Cardinals made it clean sweep by winning the men's outdoor track & field title in the spring of 2010.

North Central defended its titles in men's indoor track & field and outdoor track & field in the spring of 2011 while the Cardinals won their second men's cross country title in three seasons in the fall of 2011 and their third-straight indoor track & field title in 2012.

Hornsby came to the attention of the St. Louis Cardinals during an exhibition series between that team and the Railroaders in spring training in 1915.

In 1919, after the Cardinals acquired shortstop Doc Lavan, Rickey tried converting Hornsby into a second baseman in spring training.

A contract dispute with the Cardinals made Carlton a no-show at spring training in.

After accepting the offer, Gibson attended spring training with the Cardinals in 1958 before spending the remainder of the season in the minor leagues.

Aside from the rule changes set to take effect in 1969, cultural and monetary influences increasingly began impacting baseball, as evidenced by nine players from the Cardinals 1968 roster who hadn't reported by the first week of spring training due to the status of their contracts.

As of 2008, Walker is an instructor on the St. Louis Cardinals ' spring training staff under manager Tony La Russa and does fill-in training with the Cardinals staff.

Buck was born in St. Petersburg, Florida ( where the St. Louis Cardinals, for whom his father broadcast, then conducted their spring training ) and raised in St. Louis where he attended St. Louis Country Day School.

The Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals closed the 1984 spring training season with two games at the dome on March 31, 1984 and April 1, 1984.

The Cardinals cited his recent rehabilitation and physical as reasons for adding him to the starting rotation for the 2008 season with no expected limitations upon reporting to Jupiter, Florida for spring training.

On March 9, 2011, he was struck in the face by a foul ball hit by Braves catcher Brian McCann during a spring training game between the Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals.

During spring training in 2001, Mark McGwire told Cardinals ' manager Tony La Russa " If you don't put on the roster for the 2001 season, it might be one of the worst moves you make in your career.

In his post-playing career, Martinez has worked as a spring training instructor for the Baltimore Orioles in and, and currently serves as the pitching coach for the Palm Beach Cardinals in the Florida State League.

During the 2006 – 2007 offseason, Cabrera signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals that included an invitation to spring training ; after spending most of the year with their Triple-A affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds, Cabrera was released and signed a minor league contract with Colorado Rockies.

Glossary of baseball ( L )# lineup card | Lineup card from a 2001 spring training game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves

Both locations are extremely popular during the spring and summer months, and are a tradition for many after attending St. Louis Cardinals baseball games.

Ankiel was invited to the Cardinals ' spring training.