Matthew Leach has been the Cardinals beat reporter for MLB.com since 2002. His work has also ap-peared on NASCAR.com and ESPN.
Stuart Shea is an editor and contributor to The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball, The Emerald Guide to Baseball, Who's Who in Baseball, and SABR's Baseball Research Journal. He lives in Chicago, twenty-four blocks north of Wrigley Field.