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On June 10th, 1944, the Cardinals set a major league record by leaving 18 runners on base,

but they also won 18-0. The largest shutout win the National League has seen in 38 seasons.

I'm Carter Chappley, and this is Playbacks, an audio series that brings to life the archives of the

St. Louis Post dispatch,

recorded and edited by Chris Lay.

Today we go to a game in which the Cardinals beat up on a 15-year-old pitcher, the youngest to ever play the game.

Cardinals make 21 hits and 18 runs as Mort Cooper shuts out Reds.

Birds draw 14 passes and tie record with 18 left on bases.

Both Lorman and Hoyser, routed in six-run second inning, and 15-year-old recruit is chased in ninth.

Redlegs held to five safeties.

By J. Roy Stockton of the Post-Dispatch Sports Staff.

Dateline, Cincinnati, June 10th.

Morton Cooper, who has toiled through many a pitching duel with Deacon Will McKekney's better hurlers, rode to a rocking chair victory this afternoon, his fifth of the season. The Cardinals unlimbered

their heaviest attack of the season, collecting 21 hits off five Cincinnati pitchers and 14 bases

on balls, helping them run up their largest score of the year as they blanked the Reds 18 to 0 in the

second game of the series. Big Mort, scoring his second shutout of the year as they blanked the Reds 18 to 0 in the second game of the series.

Big Mort, scoring his second shutout of the campaign, scattered five hits,

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