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Stoney McGlynn 1906
A different Cardinals' pitcher from just 70 years before Underwood.
Clean Sweep Auctions is selling two of the startling, almost disturbing, Bregstone postcards that chronicled the Cardinals and the Browns of the 1908-1911 era.
To me this is one of the great baseball photos of all time, complete with the Sportsman's Park grounds crew in the back looking like Victorian chimneysweeps.
Ulysses Simpson Grant McGlynn might have been the greatest dud rookie pitching prospect ever. In the minors and in a brief stint with the Cardinals, he won 43 games in 1906. The next year, his lone full season in the majors, he led the N.L. in starts (39), innings pitched (352), hits allowed (329), walks (112, earned runs (114) - and losses (25).
On the other hand, look at this photo!
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