The New York Yankees have the most winning players with 22, followed by the St. Louis Cardinals with 17 winners.

Recent popes have appointed a few priests, most of them influential theologians, to the College of Cardinals without requiring them to be ordained as bishops ; invariably, these men are over the age of 80, which means they are not permitted to take part in a conclave.

Cardinals have in canon law a " privilege of forum " ( i. e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank ): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction ( cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to infringement of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, where culpability must be determined and the appropriate ecclesiastical penalty imposed ).

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.

The Panthers and Cardinals have played each other every season since 2001 with the lone exception of the 2006 & 2012.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

The Cardinals also have a clear edge when it comes to World Series successes, having won 11 championships to the Cubs ' 2.

In that same span the Cardinals have had 45 seasons in which their winning percentage was over. 500, while the Cubs have finished over that mark 19 times ( they finished at an even. 500 twice ).

A couple other division rivals such as the New York Giants and the Cardinals ( formerly in their time as their existence in St. Louis ) have purposely worn white at home against the Cowboys in the past.

The Lions have won four NFL Championships, the last in 1957, giving the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals.

The Ball State Cardinals have won several conference championships and earned a number of NCAA Tournament berths over the years, including:

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 Cardinals won the next two games and seemed to have Game 4 in complete control until the Brewers rallied for six runs in the 7th to win the game 7 – 5.

He was not a cardinal, one of only a few popes since his time that have not been Cardinals, including Urban V and Urban VI.

According to contemporary John Bargrave, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of Pope Urban VIII that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned ( or killed ) so that they could replace him with a new pope ; namely Laudivio Zacchia.

Opponents of Harrison have argued that a phrase in Pope Pius XII's legislation " Cardinals who have been deposed or who have resigned, however, are barred and may not be reinstated even for the purpose of voting ", though it speaks of someone deposed or resigned from the cardinalate, not of someone who may have incurred automatic excommunication but has not been officially declared excommunicated, means that, even if someone is permitted to attend, that does not automatically translate into electability.

Following the 1995 season, Gaetti signed as a free agent with the Cardinals, where he enjoyed two more productive seasons before being released again in August after the Cardinals ' acquisition of Fernando Tatis.

In response, the Springfield Cardinals have enjoyed some of the minor league's highest fan attendance rates since the team relocated to Springfield in 2005.

Again, McGee was a key component to the Cardinals ' success as they enjoyed another fine season finishing as Eastern Division champs.

He thus enjoyed one additional world championship season, when the Twins defeated the Cardinals in the 1987 World Series.

In the 1982 World Series the St. Louis Cardinals of the NL had home field advantage.

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.

Through the 2010 season, the Cardinals hold the series advantage 34 – 26.

After the Cardinals took a three-games-to-two advantage, a controversial Game 6 call by umpire Don Denkinger overshadowed the remainder of the Series ( which the Royals won in seven games ).

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.

After becoming a full-time ABC affiliate, KNXV was limited to airing the Cardinals ' games on Monday Night Football-the first of which would be in 1995: a Christmas Day contest in Tempe against the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Dallas Cowboys ( the Cowboys won 37-13 to clinch home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs ; coincidentally, the Super Bowl was also played in Tempe ).

As the National League won the 2011 MLB All-Star Game, home field advantage went to the Cardinals as the National League champions, thus allowing the team to host the Texas Rangers for Games 1, 2, 6 and 7.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

Cardinals Walter Kasper ( left ) and Godfried Danneels ( right ) wearing their choir dress: scarlet ( color ) | scarlet ( red ) cassock, white rochet trimmed with lace, scarlet mozetta, scarlet biretta ( over the usual scarlet zucchetto ), and pectoral cross on cord.

Ken Holtzman pitched a no-hitter on August 19, and the division lead grew to 8 games over the St. Louis Cardinals and by 9 games over the New York Mets.

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.

Kile, who was being paid over $ 8 million for the season, struggled mightily, going 8 – 13 with a 6. 61 ERA, and he wound up being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals following the season.

Colorado began the season on a high note, winning their opener on April 1, in a 2 – 1 comeback victory over the Cardinals.

The Royals ' most prominent rivalry is with the intrastate St. Louis Cardinals, beginning with Royals ' successes in the early ' 80's and fueled by the Royals ' victory over the Cardinals in the 1985 World Series.

Tom Kelly managed the Twins to World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1987 and the Atlanta Braves in 1991.

They won the National League Division Series in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but lost to the eventual World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals in six games during the NLCS.

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 consistories of 1946 and 1953 brought an end to over five hundred years of Italians constituting a majority of the College of Cardinals.

The chaos of the Western Schism thus brought about reforming councils and gave them the power over who was elected, replacing ( for a time ) the College of Cardinals.

Tampa Bay only needed one more week to get their second win, a home win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1977 season finale.

( 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.

Immediately upon his return from the service in 1946, he led the National League with 130 RBI and led the Cardinals to a World Series win over the Boston Red Sox.

The Cardinals ended their tenure on the ASU campus with a 27-21 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Christmas Eve 2005.

McLain's performance in the Tigers ’ 1968 World Series triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals was not as impressive as his regular season.