TV Cardinals Nation

Cardinals Nation will meet tonight at Big Cypress for our annual Cardinal Trivia and Souvenir Night. At 5:15, bring your favorite Cardinal artifact to set up what you have to show other members.
Artifacts could be things that are meaningful to you or items others might find interesting. (I’m bringing a couple pennants and old sports magazines from the early 60’s.) Other members should arrive around 5:35 to browse among the Cardinal artifacts. At 6:00, we will begin Cardinal trivia. I hope to have us done by 7:00, so you can visit your favorite restaurant south of 466A.
Prizes worth potentially millions of dollars, plus bragging rights! Popcorn and snacks will be on tables.
Go Cards!

The above 11 people along with Bruce Wolfe(the cameraman) decided in 2016 that The Villages was missing something...It did not have a St Louis Cardinals fan club!
From this small group, we are now over 300 members strong!

Hello Cardinal Fans!
BIRDWATCHING at Gators in Brownwood among their numerous big screen TV’s at 2:15 this Sunday, April 8. Don’t forget we get 10% for food and non-alcoholic drinks. We normally have 50-90 people socializing and watching our Cards. Contact Kerry at [email protected] so he can arrange for enough seating.

Cardinals Nation will meet Friday, April 13, at Big Cypress Recreation Center for our annual Cardinal Trivia and Souvenir Night. At 5:15, bring your favorite Cardinal artifact to set up what you have to show other members. These could be things that are meaningful to you or items others might find interesting. (I’m bringing a couple pennants and old sports magazines from the early 60’s.) Other members should arrive around 5:35 to browse among the Cardinal artifacts. At 6:00, we will begin Cardinal trivia. I hope to have us done by 7:00, so you can visit your favorite restaurant south of 466A. Prizes worth potentially millions of dollars, plus bragging rights! Popcorn and snacks will be on tables.
I’m now looking for potential questions. If you have a question or two you would like included in the Trivia, email them to me in the next days at [email protected].
Here are some future events to mark on your calendars:
April 8 Birdwatching
April 13 Memento and Cardinal Trivia night at Big Cypress.
May Birdwatching
June 8 Cardinals Nation Golf Scramble.
July Birdwatching
August 10 Dinner with Cardinals’ Director of Player Development, Gary LaRocque, at Big Cypress.
Oct/Nov Night Time Golf at Saddlebrook
November Dinner and Cardinal speaker
Plus, golf scrambles against the Cubs, Red Sox and Yankees.

CARDINALS NATION SCRAMBLE! Rick Raleigh has us set to play golf on June 8 late afternoon at Mangrove and Sweetgum courses, followed by pizza at Big Cypress. Sign up by sending your names and ID numbers to Rick at [email protected].
Sam Ottenlips is wanting to put together a slide show of the highlights of the 2017 events. Please send any pictures that you have from last year directly to him. He will then use them for the 2017 Highlights!!! (Sam is actually sitting at his son’s house in Europe doing this!) His email address is: [email protected]

SPRING TRAINING TRIP!
Spring Training trip to Jupiter was a winner: 13-6. Ozuna hit a homerun and we saw the debut of pitcher Jordan Hicks, 21, who threw 2 2/3 innings at speeds of 98 to 102 miles an hour on his fastball. Hicks, who is projected as the Cardinals’ closer in the not-too-distant future, was a surprise roster add-on at the beginning of the season and is starting off fantastically! And we were there to see him first!

It’s easy to get excited with scoring 13 runs!

Hello Cardinal Fans!

Our Cardinals Nation Bocce Ballers are having a blast. (Thank you Jeri Neumann!) With only 3 weeks to go, here are the standings:

TEAM WINS

1. Secret Weapons (Stewart/Pfiffer) 7
2. Stan’s Fans (Hein/Bennett) 6
3. Team Ozzie (Rugraff/Paulus) 5
4. Go Crazy Folks (Neumann/Sheredano) 5
5. Yadi’s Four (Curtis/Emge/Krainert) 4
Willie’s Winners (Wilkes/Wanko) 4
7. Rally Squirrels (Prosser/Gilbert) 3
8. Lawn Bowlers (Miller/Modica) 2



Cardinals Nation Bocce Ball teams at Big Cypress

SPRING TRAINING GAME is all set for March 21. Muster will be taken at 8:15 A.M. The bus will be leaving the bus depot (located across the street from Cody’s) in Lake Sumter at 8:30 A.M. We should be back in The Villages by 7:30. I have 5 tickets left for this game that I’m selling on Stub Hub tomorrow.

Plus, Pam Stuart has 2 tickets for the Cardinals vs Braves game in Kissimmee at ESPN Park for this Saturday. Game starts at 1:05 P.M. These are EXCELLENT seats behind home plate in Section 112, Row R. She paid $109. But will sell for only $85. Call her at 314-650-4122.

BIRDWATCHING at Brownwood among their numerous big screen TV’s at 2:15 on Sunday, April 8. Don’t forget we get 10% for food non-alcoholic drinks. We normally have 50-90 people socializing and watching our Cards.
Cardinals Nation will meet Friday, April 13 at Big Cypress Recreation Center for our annual Cardinal Trivia and Souvenir Night. I’m now looking for potential questions. If you have a question or two that you would like included in the Trivia, email them to me in the next couple weeks at [email protected].

Go Cards!
Bruce