This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. ST. LOUIS — On those rare instances when Ozzie Smith would have a day off from the wizardry he regularly and routinely created with his glove at shortstop, he liked to sit back in the Cardinals’ dugout and admire the handiwork of another master craftsman at work. It was there that Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog would manipulate baseball games like a puppeteer lurking high above Busch Stadium. He’d see the game playing…