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The St. Louis Cardinals are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. The team was founded in 1882 as the St. Louis Brown Stockings in the American Association, a 19th-century major league. In 1892, as the St. Louis Browns, they moved to the National League. [1] [2] [3]

Championships[edit]

The team has had a total of 11 championship-winning seasons since the beginning of major-league baseball's modern World Series in 1903, winning the World Series in the following years. [4]

They were also National League champions, but lost in the World Series, 8 times, in the following years.

Prior to the start of the modern World Series, the team did not win any National League titles. They won 4 American Association titles, in 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888. [5] [6] (The American Association was a baseball major league active during the period 1882-1891.) In each of these years, they appeared in a 19th-century version of the World Series, playing against the champion from the National League. They won the series once (1886) and lost 2 times (1887 and 1888). In 1885 they tied the National League champion Chicago White Stockings by winning 3 games, losing 3, and tying 1.

Locations and Nicknames[edit]

The team has been based in St. Louis since its inception in 1882. There is disagreement among references as to the home-game stadiums used up through 1898. The list below follows the chronology presented at mlb.com, which, for every year, agrees with at least one of the other two sources cited here: [7] [8] [9]

The stadium locations according to all three sources are detailed in the table below.

Seasons mlb.com Baseball Almanac Baseball Reference
1882-1891 Sportsman's Park 1882-1884 (no information)

1885-1886 Union Park

1887-1891 (no information)

Sportsman's Park I
1892 Union Park Union Park Sportsman's Park I

& Association Park

1893-1897 Union Park Union Park Robison Field
1898 League Park League Park Robison Field
1899-1919 Robison Field Robison Field Robison Field
1920 Robison Field

& Sportsman's Park

Robison Field

& Sportsman's Park

Robison Field

& Sportsman's Park III

1921-1966 Sportsman's Park, renamed in 1953

as Busch Stadium (Grand Avenue)

Sportsman's Park, renamed in 1953

as Busch Stadium (Grand Avenue)

1921-1952 Sportsman's Park III

1953-1966 Busch Stadium I

1966-2005 Busch Stadium II Busch Stadium (Stadium Plaza) Busch Stadium II
2006-present Busch Stadium III Busch Stadium (II) Busch Stadium III

They have been known by four different nicknames: [10]

Retired Numbers[edit]

The following uniform numbers are retired in that players, managers, and coaches of the team will no longer use them. For non-players, the person's role in the organization is also listed. [11] [12]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/history/timeline
  2. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/
  3. ↑ https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/cards.shtml
  4. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml
  5. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/#all_franchise_years
  6. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/world-series.shtml#all_world_series_winners_aa_nl
  7. ↑ https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/history/ballparks
  8. ↑ https://www.baseball-almanac.com/stadium/busch_stadium.shtml
  9. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/attend.shtml
  10. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/#all_history
  11. ↑ https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/history/retired-numbers
  12. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/#all_teams_retired_unis_STL