Rob Rains is the author of 33 books, most about the Cardinals, with the most recent entitled, “Taking Flight: the St. Louis Cardinals and the Building of Baseball’s Best Franchise” published in April by Triumph Books. A 35-year veteran of sports journalism, Rains currently is the editor of STLSportsPage.com, a St. Louis based website covering the Cardinals, Blues, the University of Missouri and other St. Louis sports.
Most of Rains’ books have been about the Cardinals, including biographies or autobiographies of Jack Buck, Tony La Russa, Mark McGwire, Ozzie Smith, Albert Pujols and Red Schoendienst.
Rains does a weekly appearance on NewsTalk 97.1 in St. Louis and is a frequent guest with Ned Reynolds on The Sports Reporters of Jock 97 in Springfield, where he grew up. Rains is a former Cardinals beat writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and was one of the founding writers of USA Today Baseball Weekly, (now Sports Weekly) covering the National League.
A lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Rains is a voter in the annual Baseball Hall of Fame elections. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Communications at Webster University in St. Louis. He and his wife Sally have two grown sons, B.J. and Mike.
