The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division.
As with the 2006 season, the Cardinals’ home games have been played in Busch Stadium in the city’s central business district since then.
It is only the New York Yankees who have won more World Series titles than the Cardinals, one of the oldest and most successful professional baseball teams in the United States today.
The squad has won 19 National League championships, the third-most of any franchise. This team has also won the East and Central Division Championship 14 times.
When Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club in 1881, he renamed it the St. Louis Browns and declared it a charter member of the American Association baseball league.
The team won four league championships, making them eligible to compete in the era’s professional baseball championship series, a predecessor to the present World Series.
The Cardinals-Cub rivalry was born out of these championship games, which pitted the Cleveland Browns against Chicago White Sox, now known as the Cubs.
Why did the St. Louis Cardinals move to Arizona?
The combination of their relatively poor play on the field and Busch Stadium’s advanced age led to a loss of interest on the part of the supporters.
As a direct consequence of this, the Bidwill Family attempted to move the Cardinals to either the city of Jacksonville, the city of Phoenix or the city of Baltimore.
Prior to the start of the 1988 season, they relocated to the desert and changed their name to the Phoenix Cardinals.