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STLSportsPage.com is a unique website covering the St. Louis Cardinals. It was started in 2012 by Rob Rains and Sally Tippett Rains. This free, quick-loading, mobile-friendly website provides up to the minute news from the St. Louis Cardinals, and features articles of interest to all St. Louis baseball fans. Veteran baseball writer Rob Rains (heard often on Frank Cusumano’s show on Fans 590 and also on KTRS with Brendan Wiese) covers the Cardinals on a daily basis and provides game stories and features plus audio and video.

The site was started as a supplement to a radio show Rob Rains and B.J. Rains did in St. Louis in 2012 but it quickly grew beyond expectations and when the show ended due to a format change at the radio station, the advertisers were all asked if they wanted to stay on and most said yes and are still advertising today. We could not do all we do without them.

Along with St. Louis Cardinals coverage, STLSportsPage.com also has articles about local food and entertainment as well as travel and health.

Rob Rains has been covering the Cardinals for more than 40 years, earning a reputation of being one of the most respected sports journalists in St. Louis. A member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Media History Hall of Fame, along with his wife Sally, Rains also is the author of more than 30 books, most about the Cardinals. A lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Rains worked for United Press International, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and USA Today Baseball Weekly, where he served as the National League beat writer, before starting STLSportsPage.com.

Rains provides daily coverage of the Cardinals, as well as writing in-depth features and analysis of both the major-league team and minor league affiliates. Readers know that they are getting quality, objective reporting about the Cardinals in addition to breaking news. It was Rains who broke the story that the Cardinals had fired manager Mike Shildt in October, 2021 and he also broke the story that former Cardinal Skip Schumaker was returning to the team as the new bench coach.