St Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St Louis.
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45 Facts About St Louis Cardinals
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The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League Central division.
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One of the nation's oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs, the St Louis Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, the most of any NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees.
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St Louis has won 15 division titles in the East and Central divisions.
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The St Louis Cardinals have won 105 or more games in four seasons and won 100 or more nine times.
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St Louis Cardinals players have won 20 league MVPs, four batting Triple Crowns, and three Cy Young Awards.
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The St Louis Cardinals are renowned for their strong fan support: despite being in one of the sport's mid-level markets, they routinely see attendances among the league's highest, and are consistently among the top three in MLB in local television ratings.
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Between 1892 and 1919, St Louis managed just five winning seasons, finished in last or next-to-last place sixteen times, and ended four seasons with 100 losses or more.
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In 1902, an American League team moved from Milwaukee into St Louis, renamed themselves the St Louis Browns and built a new park on the site of the Cardinals' old stadium, striking a rivalry that lasted five decades.
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St Louis baseball commenced a renaissance: since 1926 the Cardinals have won eleven World Series and nineteen NL pennants.
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St Louis then won the league in 1928,1930, and 1931 and the 1931 World Series.
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St Louis then won the 1946 World Series on Slaughter's Mad Dash in Game 7.
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The St Louis Cardinals won the league the following year behind their Major League-leading 2.
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St Louis won the 1982 World Series from the Milwaukee Brewers that fall.
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In 2009, the St Louis Cardinals reached 10,000 wins, dating to when they first played in the American Association.
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In Game 6, third baseman David Freese and outfielder Lance Berkman each tied the score on the Cardinals' final strike — the first such occurrence in any game in MLB history — and St Louis defeated the Texas Rangers later that game with a walk-off home run from Freese.
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St Louis Cardinals finished with the most wins for managers in franchise history with 1,408.
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The St Louis Cardinals acquired Paul Goldschmidt in a trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks on December 5,2018.
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The St Louis Cardinals finished their inaugural season in the new Busch Stadium by winning the 2006 World Series, the first team to do so since the New York Yankees in 1923.
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The Cardinals built Busch Memorial Stadium, or Busch II, in downtown St Louis, opened it during the 1966 season and played there until 2005.
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St Louis Cardinals have exceeded the attendance total of 3 million every season since 2004.
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Every season since 2013, the St Louis Cardinals have finished second among MLB franchises in home game attendance, surpassed only by the Los Angeles Dodgers each season.
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St Louis Cardinals have had few logos throughout their history, although those logos have evolved over time.
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The first logo associated with the St Louis Cardinals was an interlocking "SL" that appeared on the team's caps and or sleeves as early as 1900.
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In 1922, the St Louis Cardinals wore uniforms for the first time that featured the two familiar cardinal birds perched on a baseball bat over the name "St Louis Cardinals" with the letter "C" of the word hooked over the bat.
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In 1956, the St Louis Cardinals changed their caps to solid blue with a red "", removing the red bill.
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In 1962, the St Louis Cardinals became the first National League team to display players' names on the back of their jerseys.
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In 1964, while retaining their blue caps for road games, the St Louis Cardinals changed their home caps to all red with a white interlocking "".
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In 1971, following the trend in baseball at the time, the St Louis Cardinals replaced the traditional flannel front-button shirts and pants with belts with new pullover knit jerseys and beltless elastic waist pants.
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In 1992, the St Louis Cardinals returned to wearing traditional button-down shirts and pants with belts.
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That year, St Louis introduced a cap featuring a single cardinal bird perched on a bat worn for Sunday home games only.
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Up until 2020, the alternate "bird" caps were paired with their primary "" red batting helmets, but in the 2021 season, the St Louis Cardinals added a new helmet to match their home Sunday alternate caps.
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On November 16,2012, the St Louis Cardinals unveiled a new alternate uniform to be worn at home games on Saturdays beginning with the 2013 season.
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In 2020, the St Louis Cardinals introduced a slightly updated version of their "" cap logo, which was "soft launched" in 2019 via their social media accounts and game broadcasts.
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St Louis Cardinals is assisted by Team Fredbird, a group of eleven women who entertain fans from the field and on top of the dugouts.
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The St Louis Cardinals have an edge when it comes to World Series successes, having won 11 championships to the Cubs' 3.
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St Louis Cardinals have an interleague and intrastate rivalry with the Kansas City Royals, dubbed the "Show-Me Series" after the nickname of the team's home state, Missouri; or the "I–70 Series" after the interstate highway that connects the cities.
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In five prior postseason series matchups, the St Louis Cardinals have won four with the Dodgers winning only the 2009 NLDS and the 2021 National League Wild Card Game.
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Amid later allegations that the St Louis Cardinals owed the city profit shares, DeWitt revealed that their profitability had not reached the threshold to trigger that obligation.
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In 2014, the St Louis Cardinals announced the reopening of the franchise Hall of Fame after a 6-year hiatus.
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Since 2000, St Louis Cardinals telecasts have generated the top three in ratings in MLB every season.
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St Louis Cardinals Live is hosted in-studio by Alexa Datt along with game analysts and former St Louis Cardinals players Al Hrabosky and Rick Ankiel.
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St Louis Cardinals games had been seen on KSDK from 1947 through 1958,1963 through 1987, and 2007 until 2010.
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Former St Louis Cardinals broadcasters include Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Dizzy Dean, Joe Garagiola, Sr.
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