* Globe Champion notes: St. Louis, as a member of the American Association, won the 1886 pre-World Series interleague contest across a National League's Chicago White Stockings (now Cubs). This can be counted when their 10th Globe Championship.

** Pennant notes: St. Louis too has foursome American Association Pennants, 1888, 1887, 1886 and 1885, giving the babies the aggregate of Xx Pennants.

*** Section notes: Within 1981, a Cardinals finished sustaining the overall better record in the Eastern Section. Nevertheless, the players' strike in a middle of the year forced the season to exist as split into ii halves. St. Louis finished 2nd around two halves & was thereby disadvantaged of the post-year appearance. This can be counted when their Ninth section crown.
   Within 2001, a Cardinals & the Houston Astros finished the year by having monovular records of 93-69 & finished attached for foremost place in the Central Section standings. A tie breaker awarded a section championship to Houston & St. Louis was awarded a uncivilized card berth. A Cardinals organization refers to the 2001 Cardinals when "co-division champions". This can be counted when their 10th section crown.
   A number one 3 championships (1987, 1985 & 1982) were in a Eastern Section; the more quaternary were in the Central Section.

Franchise history

Early years
A team wwhen formed as a share of the American Association in 1882 where they enjoyed the quadruplet-month dynasty under flamboyant creator Chris von der Ahe. At first it were referred to as a "Brown Stockings", known as for the former office team in the city, whose title was one of many "Stockings" teams elysian per profits of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. This newly team's nickname was quickly shortened to "Browns". A Browns determine against a National League's Chicago White Stockings twice in the early version of the World Series. A Series of 1885 ended in dispute & using there is no guide. St. Louis won a 1886 Series outright, a just Series of that era that was won per AA against a NL. A vigorous St. Louis-Chicago competition continues to this day.

When you took the mid-1880s, a National League as well got a St. Louis entry, a Maroons, which experienced came around from either a Union Association. A Maroons experienced a misfortune of hit a instance while a Browns were in their glory, & it presently folded.

A Browns joined a National League within 1892 following the bankruptcy of the Our contries Association. It were briefly known as a Perfectos inside 1899 before settling on their present title, the title reportedly inspired by switching their uniform colors from either black to red. Likewise inside 1899, a Cardinals' creator transferred very much of a talent from either a more team he owned, the Cleveland Spiders, to the St. Louis franchise. This led to the dying of the Spiders however allowed Hall of Famer Cy Young to briefly don a Cardinals' uniform.

A Cardinals typically languished for occasionally xl years fallowing their mid-1880s triumphs, when their crosstown challenger, a American League's version of the Browns, were competitive, though non victorious. A Cardinals became a Browns' tenants within 1920. Per mid-1920s, a Cardinals began to turn their fortunes in a area of, & before long it would be the city's preferred team once more.

1920s: The first NL championship
a Cardinals built themselves into a winner in the period of the mid-1920s, led by second baseman / manager Rogers Hornsby, a nearest streaming video player the National League got, statistically speaking, to Babe Ruth. Within 1926, a Cardinals won their number 1 pennant around 39 years, and so shocked a baseball globe by knocking off the right New York Yankees in seven games. A storied Game 7 reached its climax in a seventh frame whilst the last day's winning pitcher, a senescent Grover Cleveland Alexander, was summoned in relief to face slugger Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded (a few fans despised that Alex will stand been a trifle "loaded" himself fallowing celebrating a last times's win). When rendering higher an extended distasteful ball, "Ol' Pete" so struck out Lazerri swing. the Yankees failed to mount any farther rallies & that Globe Series was a winner for the Cardinals. Years late, the motion-picture show was mass produced just about Alexander's life titled The Winning Team, starring Ronald Reagan.

A Cardinals fell upright short inside 1927, then won a pennant once againside in 1928, edging out a resurging Chicago Cubs and the perrenially contending New York Giants. A Cardinals did non fare & then swell within a Globe Series, when the Yankees continued their dominance from either 1927 and shot down the Cardinals in quaternion straight.

Disregardless, a stage was placed for the newly choose of the National League. Innovative Cardinals General Manager Branch Rickey was establishing a minor league farm system that would develop outstanding players & keep a Cardinals inside contention for 2 decades. Between 1926 & 1946, a Cardinals, Cubs & Giants would exist as fierce contender, that trio winning Seventeen of the NL pennants to be experienced in the period of victims Twenty-one seasons.

1930s: Ol' Diz and the "Gang"
Highlights from either Cardinals history include a 1930s era "Gas House Gang" featuring Dizzy Dean, Joe Medwick, Pepper Martin, and Leo Durocher.

A Cardinals wasted a 1930 Globe Series to the Philadelphia Athletics 4 games to 2, however come back hard a as punishment month, swimming an aggressive game of "inside" ball that broke The back of the A's withinside Septet games, in what would prove to exist as The A's Swan Song in post-season play.

Around 1934, Dean and his immature brother, Paul, combined to win 49 games - still one year record for brothers. Dizzy, whose really title was Jerome Herman Dean & was known as "Jay" by his chum, won 30 of the children, by having Paul (tongue-in-cheek nicknamed "Daffy" per click) contributing Xix wins. Dean's united states humor manufactured him the popular favourite, particularly in the rural south & middle west in which Cardinals fans were many. A extroverted "Diz" & a shy "Daf" (the pair that Diz known as "Me an' Paul") another time team inside double feature. In September 21, 1934, Dizzy won the number one game then Paul pitched the there is no-no-hit game in the 2nd game. Late, Diz jokingly remarked that he wished Paul got told him he was attend throw the there is no-no-hit game, because "Then I'd've pitched one too!"

Inside 1935 a Cardinals were overcome & defeated per Chicago Cubs, who reeled off Xxi straight wins within September. A Cubs clinched a pennant within St. Louis, although their streak experienced been snapped by so. Within 1937, Dizzy Dean's toe was broken by the line cause in the All-Star Game, & he hurt his arm in the period of the recovery run, losing his famed bullet, and signalling a brief decline per Cardinals.

1940s: The war years and a young "Man"

In the early 1940s, a Cardinals dominated the National League. A 1942 "St. Louis Swifties" won 106 games, a virtually all around franchise history, & come widely regarded when among a greatest baseball teams ever. Within 1943 and againside in 1944 they posted the 2nd right records within team history at 105-49. A 1944 World Series was particularly memorable as it met their crosstown competition, the St. Louis Browns, in the "Streetcar Series". A Cardinals beat a Browns Four games to Deuce to win a 1944 World Series. Outfielder Stan "The Man" Musial led the ’44 team. Known to truehearted fans when "Ol' Number 6", Musial spent Xxiii years around the Cardinals uniform. Within 1968, a statue of Musial was constructed outside Busch Stadium.

When finishing Trey games behind a Cubs inside 1945, St. Louis come back to tie for the pennant inside 1946, and ousted a Brooklyn Dodgers in a playoff series for to the Globe Series. It faced the right Boston Red Sox team and defeated a babies withinside Seven games, the eventual wframe rerun in Game 7 coming in the eighth inning in Enos Slaughter's famous mad dash about the bases in a hit to shallow left center field.

Inside 1947, a Cardinals (world health organization were profits the In the south's sole major league team until a Sixties) gained ill fame by attempting to boycott games against a Brooklyn Dodgers to protest the Dodgers' signing of the nigrify streaming video player, Jackie Robinson. A alleged ringleader of the boycott was Enos Slaughter. National League president Ford Frick threatened to ban any players who boycotted any games, & a boycott never happened. the Cardinals did non sign a black regular until Curt Flood in 1958. A Cardinals' trend lines to the trend of hiring minority talent contributed to the team slump that run great deal of the next Twenty years.

1960s: The best trade ever made
A Cardinals front professional continued to improve their minority hiring record, & built a Cardinals into a second of their periodical dynasties. Withwithin 1963, it processed the late-year rerun against the Dodgers which come just about putting Stan Musial into a Globe Series in his announced final year. A Dodgers held a babies remove in it occasion, however for the go Quintuplet years prior to divisional play went into burden & changed the nature & severity of the pennant races, there were simply ii colors on National League pennants: Fox Blue and Cardinal Red.

1964 saw one of the wildest pennant races inside baseball history. A Philadelphia Phillies seemed to have a commanding lead, however fell apart in a previous fortnight of the year, when the Cardinals & more teams pounced on the chance. a Cardinals, thanks around a share to a mid-year acquisition from either the Cubs, 1 Lou Brock, won on a last day of the year, finishing the game ahead of the Phillies & the Cincinnati Reds, with a San Francisco Giants and the Milwaukee Braves close behind.

Within the series that resembled the replay of the franchises' number 1 encounter inside 1926, the parvenu "Redbirds", led by third baseman & captain Ken Boyer, took on the veteran Yankees, which featured his younger brother Clete, besides an Everthing-Star third baseman. Ken Boyer's stunning grand slam home run within Game Four at Yankee Stadium, along with a overwhelming pitching of their immature twirler Bob Gibson, resulted in the Quaternary games to Trio win per Cardinals. This signalled the "Changing of the Guard", as this was a go Series appearance per "Old" Yankees dynasty. Before 2001, a Cardinals remained a exclusively team to hang on to an overall Globe Series edge against the Yankees, Quaternary Series to Tierce.

Within the slightly outlandish post-year twist, manager Johnny Keane, who got been targeted for firing prior to a Cardinals' manufactured their late-year comeback, left a team & took a job managing a Yankees. A Cardinals so promoted coach Red Schoendienst, who would require a managerial helm for the next Dozen seasons.

Around 1967, the Cardinals ("El Birdos") romped through a National League so defeated the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, bursting "The Impossible Dream" bubble of the latter team, which had won their number one pennant inside Xxi years, on the end of the world of the year. A 1967 team featured new Hall of Famers Lou Brock, Orlando Cepeda, Steve Carlton and Bob Gibson, who won Three games in the Series.

Within 1968, "The Year of the Pitcher", Gibson finished by having an astonishly moo Earned Do Typical of Single.Twelve, & the Cardinals over again won a pennant by a double-digit margin. Although basically the equivalent team when a last month, it faced a tougher opponent in the Detroit Tigers, who experienced as well won their pennant well, behind a 31-win year of Denny McLain. A Tigers won a closely contested Septenary back affair. It was a endure Series appearance for this wonderful Cardinals team, & a endure Series prior to baseball adopted its divisional format.

1969 saw a total of changes when a major leagues expanded into Xxiv teams & Quaternary divisions. A renascent Chicago Cubs led the newly-formed NL East Section for very much of the summertime prior to faltering. the Cardinals wear a mid-year surge, when their famed announcer Harry Caray (within what would prove to exist as his final year of Xxv doing Cardinals broadcasts) began singing, "The Cardinals are coming, tra-la-la-la". Finally a "Miracle" New York Mets would win a section, the league championship & the World Series.

A Cardinals continued to exist as perennial competition through the early 70s, led by their popular manager Red Schoendienst, but in time trailed dispatch. Changes began to came in a late 70s, & the Cardinals would presently turn into champions over again.

1980s: Whiteyball and the "Runnin' Redbirds"
When the less-than-successful 1970s, new Key manager Whitey Herzog revived the winning tradition at Busch Stadium. Herzog's brand of baseball, known around St. Louis when "Whiteyball", catered to the stiff Astroturf of Busch Stadium & featured speed on the base paths, effervescent defense, and improper roll moves. Herzog was known to put a pitcher withwithin best field, bring in a reliever for 1 batter, so put the original pitcher back on the mound. Within his Eleven years when Primal manager, Herzog won 3 National League pennants, & the 1982 World Series title. A 1980s era Cardinals included stars Darrell Porter (1982 NLCS and Globe Series MVP), Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee (1985 NL MVP who won both batting titles inside the Cardinals uniform), John Tudor, Tom Herr, Jack Clark, Bruce Sutter, Keith Hernandez, Terry Pendleton, and Joaquín Andujar.

A 1985 World Series, christened the "I-70 Series" because it featured the within-state rival Kansas City Royals, is perhaps a virtually all controversial around Cardinals history. A Series began ominously for the Cardinals when their greenhorn lead-off hitter & catalyst, Vince Coleman, who stole 110 bases that month, was redo into per mechanical tarpaulin at Busch Stadium during a NLCS. Scribes joked all about the "killer tarp", however a remark proved metaphoric, when Coleman was unable to play in the Fall Classic. Game 6 of that Series featured "The Call". In the bottom of the Ninth frame, ump Don Denkinger called Royals batter Jorge Orta safe at first base - the call for refuted by broadcast television's instant replay. A Cardinals, leading One-0 at a instance of a play & looking for that triumph to clinch the title, went in to lose Game 6 two or three batters late per score of Two-One. A "Runnin' Redbirds" so were blown away from Game 7 a charted nighttime, per score of 11-0, when two of their pitching aces failed to came across on this occasion - John Tudor, who, upon existence flushed from either the game, punched a mechanical fan & severely cut his pitching h&, and Joaquin Andujar, who was ejected by page shell ump Don Denkinger for arguing balls & strikes, however it was probably great deal to a higher degree only Denkinger's strike zone bothering a hard Dominican.

A Cardinals once more won a National League inside 1987, losing to the Minnesota Twins 4 games to 3 in the World Series. This period, St. Louis was forgoing uncontaminating-higher hitter Jack Clark, the Cardinals' #1 offensive threat, world health organization caught the cleat in the abominable turf at Montreal's Olympic Stadium in the closing days of the regular year. A Series was a number one where a residence team won apiece of the 7 games. A Cardinals held their have at Busch Stadium, however a electronically-enhanced crowd noise & a "Homer Hankies" in the Metrodome seemed to spook the Redbirds. A booming bats of the Twins, which seemed to came alive exclusively in the "Homerdome", were overmuch for the Cardinals "inside baseball" style of offense to overcome. Games One, Two & 6 were jolly very much blowouts, & around Game 7 a Twins' pitching close the Cardinals.

1990s: A new era and Big Mac
A Cards reached a playoffs within 1996 (the number 1 year for long-instance Oakland Athletics manager Tony La Russa), but a Atlanta Braves defeated them for the National League pennant. a Cards blew a Three-One series deficit against the Braves in the 1996 NLCS.

2000s and beyond
Inside 2000, the Cardinals wasted to the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series. This series followed a marked series against the Atlanta Braves per implosion of phenom pitcher Rick Ankiel inside the NLDS, who got Iv untamed pitches in 1 frame & never regained his form. Inside 2001, the Cardinals advanced to the post-year as a "Wild Card" team when posting a 2nd-right record in a National League, however losing the section to the Houston Astros. A eventual Globe Series prizewinning Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Cardinals inside the 5-game playoff series.

Inside 2001, the Cardinals finished the year by using a 93-69 record. A Houston Astros, also in the National League Central, finished by having an monovular record. Since them teams finished attached in a standings, the league attend a tie breaker to determine the section champion. Since Houston won a year series against a Cardinals, Nina from carolina games to Heptad games, Houston was declared a section champion & St. Louis received the untamed card berth. A Cardinals organization refers to the 2001 Cardinals when "co-division champions" along by using a Astros. This season was a go for McGwire, whose arrival around St. Louis got signalled the run of the freshly era for the Redbirds, & whose injury-prone career eventually took overmuch of a toll upon him.

Within 2002, a Cardinals won a Central Section & this period defeated a Diamondbacks Three games to none to email the NLCS, but wasted Little joe games to I to a San Francisco Giants. A month was likewise marred by using tragedy for the Primal personal. In June 18, beloved, Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck passed away at the age of 77. Only 10 months earliest, Buck (despite ailing from either lung cancer and Parkinson's disease) stirred emotions when he addressed the crowd at Busch Stadium when Major League Baseball resumed after the September 11th terrorist attacks. A large shock of a lot come good little joe years when Buck's passing whenever a-one pitcher Darryl Kile died suddenly at a age of 33 of heart failure piece inside Chicago for the series against the Cubs.

Inside 2004, St. Louis posted a better record in a Major Leagues, tallying their virtually all wins since the Forties & earning page field benefit for the NLDS & NLCS. In a Section Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, a Cardinals rolled, winning the series Three-One. Facing off against section rival Houston in the NLCS, the Cards took the Two-0 lead, so misused iii straight around Houston. Coming house for Game 6, a Cardinals took a Four-Three lead into the Ninth frame, however Houston attached it higher. Jim Edmonds hit a walk-off homer in a bottom of the 12th to win the game. A next nighttime, Albert Pujols helped St. Louis win Game 7 to clinch a series, & was known as MVP, by having a game ligature hit, & was brought front yard by using what would become the expected winning dog off Scott Rolen's two-start Residence Redo.

A Cardinals so played a Boston Red Sox in the 2004 World Series. This was a third instance them teams keep close at hand faced every more inside a Fall Classic, using a Cardinals winning the last 2 in 1946 and 1967. the Cardinals were once more forgoing a key streaming video player for the Globe Series: this instance it was crack pitcher Chris Carpenter, who, when running 1Five-5, tweaked his shoulder inside September & missed a entire post-year. St. Louis was ill-prepared for a high-riding Red Sox world health organization got good mass produced history by coming back from either a Trey games to none deficit against the Yankees to win the Our contries League Pennant. A Cardinals were swept per Red Sox withinside foursome games, by having Boston winning their number one Globe Series championship in 86 years. A better demonstration of St. Louis' troubles in the Series: Pujols, Scott Rolen, and Jim Edmonds, the usually dreaded Three-Four-Five hitters for the Cards, were the gloomy 6-for-45 sustaining Single Run batted in.

within September 17 2005, A Cardinals clinched their Quaternary NL Central Section title in Half a dozen years by beating a Chicago Cubs 5-1. This put a children into the playoffs for the Fifth period in this span. In a foremost spherical, a Cardinals swept a NL West Section Champs, the San Diego Padres.

Although a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim had been eliminated within a ALCS the former nighttime, imagination attached using the Angels surfaced in game V of the NLCS. Down to their outride & strike & facing elimination inside game Quintuplet of the 2005 National League Championship Series, along with the screaming crowd & Brad Lidge's seemingly unhittable breaking stuff, ex-Angel David Eckstein breathed life into a team, hitting one in the hole on the left side to email First & bring the ligature rerun to the shell. A next batter, ex-Angel Jim Edmonds, swung and missed one of Lidge's omnipresent sliders however at length worked the base in balls. By using a "Killer E's" aboard, Albert Pujols, one of the bet on's virtually all despised hitters, stepped to the shell. Fallowing a promptly strike, Pujols slammed a eminent cause 412 feet onto a train tracks behind left field, to put a Cardinals in a lead Five-Four & turn a crowd roar into stunned silence (experienced the game been played by using the roof open, the cause would develop exited Minute Maid Park, as it 1st hit off a glass wall which forms section of the roof). A blow was remindful of Dave Henderson's clutch homer against the Angels in the 1986 ALCS game Quintuplet. Houston was so close down in a bottom of the 9th to preserve the win, guaranteeing at least a single supplementary game at Busch Stadium. Nevertheless, a Astros dominated Game 6, shutting a Cards down Five-One for their number one berth inside the Globe Series in franchise history. Busch is scheduled for demolition in the offseason.

Other historical notes
For very much of a second half of the 20th century, the legendary broadcaster, Jack Buck, was the voice of the Cardinals, calling play-by-play in St. Louis' KMOX radio. His boy Joe Buck took over for Jack when a radio & tv announcer for the Cardinals inside 1991. Notwithstanding, around September 2005, the Cardinals announced a fresh radio broadcast treat by using rival station KTRS beginning with a 2006 season.

Between 1960 and 1987, St. Louis was house to deuce heavy-league Cardinals teams, baseball & football. Sports fans & local news coverage had into a habit of saying "the Baseball Cardinals" or even "the Football Cardinals" to distinguish the two. Locals besides had into a habit of applying "Redbirds" to refer specifically to the baseball team. This nickname got been normally utilized decades prior to a eleven come to town. Following, a Football Cardinals became called a "Gridbirds" or even a "Big Red."

Above a years, Fundamental fans keep around gained a reputation when existence a right & virtually all knowledgable in the game, based on data from Peter Gammons & other experts, and St. Louis has been deemed "Baseball City, USA". Players keep around been known to tell more players that it use non played baseball until it stand played baseball inside St. Louis. the atmosphere is and so dockage that many players own accepted the moo remuneration, a "home team discount", to remain on the Cardinals, virtually all notably Mark McGwire, Jim Edmonds and Albert Pujols.

St. Louis has ii contention that draw close sell-outs regularly. A easily-known Cardinals-Cubs rivalry, sometimes known as a I personally-55 Series; & a supplementary recent Cardinals-Royals rivalry, also referred to as a We-70 Series.

A Cardinals (by having a Philadelphia/Oakland Athletics) are 2nd just to the New York Yankees in the number of Globe Series championships won. A Cardinals come a sole one of a eight oldest National League teams to hang on to an edge above a Yankees serial play, Three to Two.

Inside 2005, a Cardinals come swimming their final year within Busch Stadium. Beginning around 2006, a recently Busch Stadium is the recently front yard of the baseball Cardinals.

Baseball Hall of Famers

Current roster

Retired numbers
   Rogers Hornsby*    Jack Buck**  Single Ozzie Smith  Ii Red Schoendienst  Hexad "Stan the Man" Musial  Niner Enos Slaughter 14 Ken Boyer 17 Dizzy Dean 20 Lou Brock 42 Jackie Robinson*** 45 Bob Gibson 85 August "Gussie" Busch (owner)

* Hornsby hwhen retirement honors, as he played in the era before uniform cost.

** Buck hwhen retirement honors, broadcaster; enrolled as "That's a Winner".

*** Robinson's total is retired by Major League Baseball.