The Cardinals drew a league-leading 142, 417 fans in their inaugural season, following that up with 157, 557 in 1995, but 115, 342 in 2004.

It has been claimed that during World War II, Pius XII drew up a document with instructions that, if he were kidnapped by the Nazis, he was to be considered to have resigned his office, and the Cardinals were to flee to neutral Portugal and elect a successor.

Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.

The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

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.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

The now Arizona Cardinals, back when they were in St. Louis, were one of the first teams to try doing this trick when the Cowboys visited the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.

On September 17, the Astros clinched their first 100-loss season in franchise history, On September 28, the Astros ended the season with an 8-0 home loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

On April 15, Aaron collected his first major league hit, a single off Cardinals ' pitcher Vic Raschi.

The first few seasons of the series were rather even, with the Cardinals holding a slight advantage with a 14 – 13 record through the 2003 season.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

The two teams split the first two games at Miller Park, then the Cardinals took two out of 3 games at Busch Stadium and won Game 6 to win the National League pennant and eventually the World Series against the Texas Rangers.

* 2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.

Smith later participated in the postseason for the first time when the Cardinals faced the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five 1982 National League Championship Series ( NLCS ).

Because of his injury, Smith let his now four-year-old son Nikko perform his traditional Opening Day backflip before the Cardinals ' first home game of the 1986 season.

Smith became a free agent for the first time in his career on November 2, 1992, only to sign a new contract with the Cardinals on December 6.

Meanwhile, manager Tony La Russa began his first season with the Cardinals in tandem with a new ownership group.

In the postseason, the Cardinals first faced the San Diego Padres in the 1996 National League Division Series.

The last home game which was blacked out on television in the Philadelphia market as a result of not being sold out was against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, September 12, 1999, which was Andy Reid's first home game as new head coach of the Eagles.

They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).

On September 21, 1957, he was selected off waivers by the Cleveland Indians from the Cardinals.

Freese's clutch play in the postseason ( excluding the popup that bounced off of his glove and head ) helped the Cardinals win the 2011 National League Pennant over the Milwaukee Brewers and the World Series over the Texas Rangers.

In Game 7, Brock had another crucial miscue when he was picked off base by Lolich, extinguishing a possible Cardinals rally.

Beltrán continued to produce with a walk-off home run against the St. Louis Cardinals on August 22, off Cardinals ' closer Jason Isringhausen.

However, the Cardinals scored 2 runs off the bullpen to win the game and eventually sweep the series.

Building off their late season pennant run in 1963, the 1964 Cardinals developed a strong camaraderie that was noted for being free of the racial tension that predominated in the United States at that time.

Lolich picked off Lou Brock and Curt Flood in the bottom of the sixth inning to extinguish a Cardinals threat and went on to pitch a 4 to 1 Tigers victory.

In 1967 he had his highest batting mark with a. 335 average ( though his other batting totals fell off from previous years ), helping the Cardinals to another championship.

Martin, along with Cardinals teammates such as Leo Durocher, Dizzy Dean and Joe Medwick among others, became known as the 1934 Gashouse Gang due to their boisterous activities on and off the field.

In his first game as a Met on April 9, 1985, he hit a tenth inning home run off Neil Allen to give the Mets a 6 – 5 Opening Day victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

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.

For a number of years, off and on, the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL called Comiskey Park home when they weren't playing at Normal Park or Soldier Field.

He had another poor World Series, however, batting just. 095 in the five-game loss to the St. Louis Cardinals – his only Series loss in six trips ; he was picked off at second base in the bottom of the ninth in the last game.

MacPhail spared no expense in purchasing and trading for useful players ( and sometimes outright stars ), such as Dolph Camilli, Billy Herman and Kirby Higbe ; he purchased unknown shortstop Pee Wee Reese from the Boston Red Sox, and signed another young star, Pete Reiser, when he was ruled a free agent from the Cardinals ' farm system ; and found stalwarts such as American League veterans Dixie Walker and Whitlow Wyatt off the waiver wire.

On September 28, 2008, Boldin was carted off the field after a violent helmet-to-helmet collision in the end zone with 27 seconds remaining in the Cardinals ’ 56 – 35 loss to the New York Jets.

Landis ordered the Cardinals to sell off the Fort Wayne team and give up the rights to its players.

After the previously weak Cardinals had moved in, the two teams ' situations had started to reverse, both on and off the field.

On August 18 Ward hit a grand slam in the third inning off of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Anthony Reyes, the third of his career and his first home run as a member of the Cubs.

In addition to his grand slam in Game 6, Northrup had the key hit in Game 7 off St. Louis Cardinals ’ ace Bob Gibson.

Boston won Game 1 in the World Series, thanks to Bellhorn's eighth-inning two-run home run off Julián Tavárez ( again, hitting a ball off the foul pole, this time Pesky's Pole at Fenway Park ) to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-9.

He also drove in the winning run, or scored it, in seven of the games including three singles and a double off Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals in the pennant-clinching contest.