Did you have baseball idols or heroes that you looked up to when you were a kid? "Well, I always liked Joe Medwick of the St.Louis Cardinals. He was also my newspaper customer when I was a kid growing up onThe Hill (section of St. Louis)." Medwick, a fellow Hall of Famer seen here sliding into the great Tigers catcher Mickey Cochrane, was one of the toughest players on one of the toughest-ever teams, the "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals of the 1930s.