In the playoffs they built on their cold weather reputation, defeating both the St. Louis Cardinals 30 – 14 and the Los Angeles Rams 14 – 10 in frozen Metropolitan Stadium.

Branch Rickey, the Cardinals executive who had developed their farm system and built the great 1930s Cardinals teams, found Dean's homespun candidness and observations refreshing.

Skylands Park opened in 1994 and was built for the New Jersey Cardinals, the New York-Penn League affiliate for the St. Louis Cardinals.

He was the driving force of the " Gashouse Gang ", the nickname for the Cardinals clubs of the early 1930s, which were built around him to reflect his no-holds-barred approach.

Also Universi Dominici Gregis provided that Cardinals would be housed in Domus Sanctae Marthae, a building with dormitory type accommodation built within the Vatican City.

Omaha Municipal Stadium was built in 1947, ready to host the single-A Omaha Cardinals for the 1948 season.

Hammons built the ballpark before he had a minor league team secured to play in the stadium, though he steadfastly assured local residents it would be the Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Cardinals had built their reputation and won their division behind solid pitching, exceptional defense, and aggressive base running, they manufactured runs in a style that would come to be called “ Whiteyball ,” after Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog who managed the Cardinals from 1980 to 1990.

The Cardinals built their team on speed, clutch hitting and pitching.

Albuquerque was host to two other Class-D minor-league teams ( the Dons and the Cardinals, the latter for which Tingley Field was built ) before the Dukes returned in 1942, this time with the Class-D West Texas-New Mexico League.

He built on his success in, hitting. 310 with 104 RBIs and a. 349 on base percentage, playing mostly as the right fielder and cleanup hitter for the Cardinals.

The Cardinals owned both teams when the respective stadiums were built.

The first incarnation of the current field was built for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947.

Rickey's grandfather built dynasties with the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and was best known outside of baseball for breaking the color line and admitting Dodgers star Jackie Robinson to what had been all-white baseball leagues by ' gentleman's agreement.

August " Gussie " Anheuser Busch, Jr. ( March 28, 1899 – September 29, 1989 ) was an American brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world as company chairman from 1946 – 75, and became a prominent sportsman as owner of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise in Major League Baseball from 1953 until his death.

When the National League split into two, and then three divisions, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together.

Because he could still be useful to a contending team, the Rockies traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in August for three minor-leaguers.

, there are three Dominicans in the College of Cardinals

The Royals took two out of three from the Cardinals in 2010 behind victories from starting pitchers Zack Greinke and Bruce Chen, but followed with only two wins in six games in 2011 and in 2012.

In the Series, they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three.

The Brewers then won Game Five 6 – 4, giving them a 3 – 2 series lead, but the Cardinals trounced Don Sutton winning Game 6 13 – 1, and rallied for three runs late in Game 7 to win the Series, 4 games to 3.

The Redskins beat the Giants 28 – 14, but the Giants won their next three games against the Saint Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, and Arizona Cardinals.

Smith started Game 1 and subsequently registered three putouts and one assist in the field, but went hitless in four at-bats in the Cardinals ' 4 – 2 loss.

Gregory succeeded Pope Clement IV in 1271 after the papal chair had been vacant for three years due to divisions among the Cardinals.

He was elected as Pope Julius II to the papal dignity by the near-unanimous vote of the cardinals ( indeed, the only three votes he did not receive were those of Georges D ' Amboise, supposedly his main opponent and the favourite of the French monarchy, and the votes of Cardinals Carafa and Casanova ) almost certainly by means of bribery.

In the 2005 NLDS, the reigning National League champion St. Louis Cardinals, who finished the season with the majors ' best record, swept the Padres in three consecutive games.

Dallas finished the regular season winning the NFC East with a 10-4 record, winning their final five regular season games to overcome the St. Louis Cardinals ( who lost their final three games and fell to third place in the final standings ) and New York Giants ( who lost their finale 31-3 to the Los Angeles Rams ; a Giants victory would have given New York the NFC East title based upon a better division record ).

( On April 19, 1968, he had struck out three batters on nine pitches in the second inning of a 2 – 1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals ; becoming the eighth National League pitcher and the 14th pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat.

The Red Sox lost the World Series four games to three to the St. Louis Cardinals, losing three times to Bob Gibson.

* Wilmer " Vinegar Bend " Mizell-Professional Baseball player for the Pirates and Cardinals, and a Congressman who served three terms.

His older brother Hank was a reserve outfielder for three AL teams, and his younger brother Ron was briefly a first baseman with the 1972 St. Louis Cardinals.

In the 1968 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, Brock had three stolen bases in Game 3 and contributed a double, triple, home run and four runs batted in during Game 4 to help the Cardinals build a three game to one advantage over the Tigers.

Detroit rallied for three runs in the seventh inning as Mickey Lolich shut out the Cardinals for the final eight innings to win the game for the Tigers.

Also in 1979, the St. Louis Cardinals retired Brock's jersey number 20, an honor that had previously been bestowed upon only three other Cardinals players ; Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean and Bob Gibson.

He played in those three World Series, winning the first two, but was sometimes blamed for the loss of the 1931 World Series, when the St. Louis Cardinals, led by Pepper Martin, stole eight bases and the Series, although, in his book, The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher, author Charlie Bevis cites the Philadelphia pitching staff's carelessness in holding runners as a contributing factor.

The elephant knelt down three times in reverence and then, following a wave of his Indian mahout ( keeper ), aspired to a bucket of water with his trunk and splashed it over the crowd and the Cardinals.

The only recordings he is certainly on are three sides under his own name (" Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals ") and a dozen with Doc Cooke's Orchestra, most of which are wonderfully arranged and with Keppard on second cornet.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

The victory moved the Cardinals to within a half game of Houston in the National League Central Division, and the Cardinals went on to win the division by six games.

After suffering through a mid-season slump, he recovered to finish the season with a career-high 206 hits and a. 299 batting average while leading the league in stolen bases and runs scored as the Cardinals won the National League pennant by ten and a half games.

Cardinals manager Solly Hemus shuffled Gibson between the bullpen and the starting pitching rotation for the first half of the 1961 season.

On August 23, the Cardinals were 11 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies, and remained six and half games behind on September 21.

The NFL's Defensive Player of the Year Harrison picked off Kurt Warner's pass and returned it a Super Bowl-record 100 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the first half to give the Pittsburgh Steelers a 17-7 lead over the Arizona Cardinals.

This has been used sparingly in the major leagues, but was notably employed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa in the second half of the 1998 baseball season, and again in August 2007 and in 2008, and by Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost in 2008 .< ref >

He became the second two-way starter ( after the Cardinals ' Roy Green ) in the NFL since Chuck Bednarik for the first half of the season due to Michael Irvin serving a five game suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.

The Cardinals drew first blood off Les Straker on a Tommy Herr home run in the first, and the Twins countered with two in their half of the first on RBI singles by Kirby Puckett and Don Baylor.

The Cardinals answered with a home run by Albert Pujols in the bottom half, tying the game at two.

For two and a half years, he honed his skills as a hitter and fielder in the Cardinals ' minor-league system.

He suffered a sprained left knee in the second quarter against the Cardinals on October 5, but returned in the second half to help Dallas total 365 yards of offense.

However, although Arizona scored on their first play of the game, New Orleans dominated the Cardinals with 35 points in the first half.

The Saints won the coin toss, marking the 13th straight Super Bowl the NFC won the toss ( the Cardinals won the toss in Super Bowl XLIII but elected to defer to the second half, giving the Steelers the ball to open the game ).

Branch returned in 2004 to start the Patriots ' first two games of the season before suffering a leg injury in the first half of the team's Week 2 game against the Arizona Cardinals.

Lohse was one of the biggest surprises for the Cardinals in the first half of the 2008 season, going 11 – 2 with a 3. 39 ERA.

The following season, he signed with the Arizona Cardinals, who he stayed with for two and a half seasons, and at one point sharing kicking duties with veteran Chris Jacke.

The Pirates won the National League East by a game and a half over the St. Louis Cardinals, allowing Pizarro to return to the post season for the first time since 1958.

He played two seasons in New York, half a season for the St. Louis Cardinals, and a few games for the San Francisco Seals before retiring in 1957.

Tom Herr put the Cardinals up 1 – 0 in the first off Rick Reuschel with a sacrifice fly, then the Giants tied it in their half of the first on a Kevin Mitchell RBI single.

Taken in the Rule 5 draft of minor league players ( whereby the team selecting the player pays $ 50, 000 and must keep the player on their major league roster for the entire upcoming season or offer the player back to his previous team for half price ) by the St. Louis Cardinals in November 1970.

Warneke won 83 games for the Cardinals during his five and a half seasons in St. Louis.