Orangeburg Cardinals
September 29, 2012
Short-lived South Carolina minor league baseball outfit that played just a single campaign during the summer of 1973. Although playing under the “Cardinals” name, the Orangeburg Cardinals were actually a Co-Op team, accepting low-level prospects from multiple Major League Baseball organizations, including the St. Louis Cardinals. Notable personalities on the 1973 Orangeburg Cardinals included manager Jimmy Piersall and 20-year old outfielder Randy Poffo, who would later gain worldwide fame as the wrestler Randy “The Macho Man” Savage during the 1980’s.
