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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Cards’ World Series rings feature ‘rally squirrel’

Hokey smoke!

The St. Louis Cardinals have immortalized the “rally squirrel” in 14 karat white gold.

The Cardinals received their World Series rings before Saturday’s game, and each ring includes the player’s name, number and the years of the Cardinals’ 10 previous championships.

They also include a tiny squirrel running across home plate.

In Game 4 of last year’s NL Division Series, a squirrel darted across home plate during Skip Schumaker’s at-bat—and the Busch Stadium crowd went wild.

Cardinals fans adopted the critter’s image throughout the playoffs, when it was seen on T-shirts, memorabilia and images on stadium screens.

Earlier this year, a short-printed variant of Schumaker’s Topps baseball card focused on the squirrel.

Repoz Posted: April 15, 2012 at 09:51 AM | 10 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Gamingboy Posted: April 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM (#4106890)

SQUIRREL!

2. Sleepy supports unauthorized rambling Posted: April 15, 2012 at 03:44 PM (#4107167)

Also, "Happy Flight". But they ignored Torty.

3. Belfry Bob Posted: April 15, 2012 at 06:31 PM (#4107277)

'And now for something REALLY important...'

4. Lassus Posted: April 15, 2012 at 08:42 PM (#4107315)

I support this.

5. JuanGone..except1game Posted: April 15, 2012 at 09:03 PM (#4107324)

Wow that's unbelievable lame.

6. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) Posted: April 15, 2012 at 09:15 PM (#4107332)

I see no squirrel. Is this like one of those Magic Eye things?

7. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines Posted: April 15, 2012 at 09:54 PM (#4107355)

It's above home plate and below the big StL.

8. Tripon Posted: April 15, 2012 at 11:33 PM (#4107391)

Is white gold the biggest scam to come from the Gem Shopping Network? We report, you decide.

9. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) Posted: April 16, 2012 at 12:01 AM (#4107404)

It's above home plate and below the big StL.

That's it? I thought they were trying to make it look like a Highway 50 sign for some reason and that was the crest.

10. phredbird

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 02:42 AM (#4107458)

COUNT DA SQUIRRELZZZZ BITHCES

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