Keith Schildroth Author

Rob Rains has been writing about sports in St. Louis and nationally for more than 35 years. He runs a website covering all St. Louis sports, STLSportsPage.com. He has written 33 books, most of which have been about the Cardinals. Rains is a former Cardinals beat writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and was one of the founding writers of USA Today Baseball Weekly (now Sports Weekly). A lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Rains also is an adjunct professor at Webster University. He and his wife Sally have two grown sons, B.J. and Mike.

Keith Schildroth worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than 30 years, first starting as a copy boy at the age of 15 and eventually working in the sports department covering soccer, golf, bowling, and professional wrestling and writing sports obituaries. He covered the 1985 and 1987 National League Championship series and World Series for Reuters and was a longtime correspondent for Soccer America Magazine. Schildroth is an avid Cardinals historian and has covered the Cardinals for Reuters of Canada and ESPNNewYork.com. He is currently a freelance writer and is a member of the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.