Description
- Team: St. Louis Cardinals
- Size : 11
- League: MLB
- Season:1982 2006 2011
- The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball franchise in St. Louis, Missouri, who compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). The new Busch Stadium has been their home park since 2006. With origins as one of the early professional baseball clubs in St. Louis, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased a barnstorming club in 1881 then known as the Brown Stockings and established them as charter members of the American Association (AA) the following season. Upon the discontinuation of the AA, St. Louis joined the NL in 1892, and were also called the Browns and Perfectos before an official renaming as Cardinals in 1900. One of the most successful franchises in baseball history, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships - second only to the New York Yankees' 27 championships - 19 National League pennants, and 12 division titles. While still in the AA, St. Louis won four league championships, qualifying them to play in a forerunner of the World Series. They tied in 1885 and won outright in 1886 - both times against the predecessor of the Chicago Cubs - in a storied rivalry that continues unto today. Achievements that have impacted Major League Baseball and sports in general include Branch Rickey's pioneering of the farm system, Rogers Hornsby's two Triple Crowns, Dizzy Dean's 30-win season, Stan Musial's 17 Major League and 29 NL records, Bob Gibson's 1.12 ERA season, Whitey Herzog's Whiteyball, Mark McGwire breaking the single-season home run record, and the 2011 championship team's unprecedented comebacks. The Cardinals have won 105 or more games in four different seasons and won 100 or more a total of eight times. Cardinals players have won 20league MVPs, four batting Triple Crowns, and three Cy Young Awards. Baseball Hall of Fame inductees include Lou Brock, Dizzy Dean, Gibson, Herzog, Hornsby, Joe Medwick, Stan Musial, Rickey,Red Schoendienst, Ozzie Smith, and Bruce Sutter. In 2014, Forbes valued the Cardinals at $820 million
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