The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals have played their home games at Busch Stadium. The team has won 11 World Series championships, more than any other NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees. 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 an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals have played their home games at Busch Stadium. The team has won 11 World Series championships, more than any other NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees. Notable Cardinals achievements include manager Branch Rickey’s invention of the farm system, Rogers Hornsby’s two batting Triple Crowns, Dizzy Dean’s 30-win season in 1934, Stan Musial’s 17 MLB and 29 NL records, Bob Gibson’s 1. 12 earned run average in 1968, Whitey Herzog’s Whiteyball, Mark McGwire’s single-season home run record in 1998, and the 2011 championship team’s unprecedented comebacks. Cardinals players have won 20 league MVPs, four batting Triple crowns, and three Cy Young Awards. In 2018, Forbes valued the Cardinals at USD 1.9 billion, 7th-highest among MLB clubs and far more than the USD 147 million paid in 1995 by owner William DeWitt, Jr.’s investment group. In 2017, the team took in revenue of USD 319 million on an operating income of USD 40.0 million. Through 2020, the Cards’ all-time win-loss record is 10,948–10,091. Professional baseball began in 1875 with the inception of the Brown Stockings in the National Association.
In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the team, reorganized it, and made it a founding member of the American Association, a league to rival the NL. The next season, St. Louis shortened their name to the Browns, and they became the dominant team in the AA, as manager Charlie Comiskey guided them to four pennants in a row from 1885 to 1888. The Browns were expelled from the NL after 1877 due to a game-fixing scandal and the team went bankrupt. After 1892, the Browns – also called the Perfectos – joined the National league. In 1900, theteam was renamed the Cardinals. The franchise is considered to be the first year of existence for the franchise which would later become known as St.Louis Cardinals, the 1882 season is generally considered to the name of the franchise. It is one of the nation’s oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs. It has won 19 National League pennants, third-most of any team, and won 14 division titles in the East and Central divisions. It also won the World Series three times, the most of any MLB team. The club has won 105 or more games in four seasons and won 100 or more nine times, and has won the American League championship nine times. It was the first team to play in the modern professional baseball championship tournament, a forerunner of the modern World Series.
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