One franchise that did not share in this newfound success of the league was the Chicago Cardinals, owned by the Bidwill family, who had become overshadowed by the more popular Chicago Bears.

While it seems a new trend for sports teams to buy their own radio stations ( see St. Louis Cardinals baseball and Washington Redskins football teams ), for the Angels it is a tradition started by team founder Gene Autry, who owned 710 KMPC and broadcasted the games for years.

The Badgers, owned by Ambrose McGuirk, agreed to a game against the Cardinals.

Golenbock, other Cardinal historians, and Caray's former wife have suggested the cause was a purported affair Caray had with the daughter-in-law of Cardinals owner August A. Busch, Jr. ( who also owned Anheuser-Busch brewery, the club's broadcast sponsor ); Caray first called it a business grudge while never necessarily denying or affirming the rumors.

A few minor league teams are directly owned by their major league parent club, such as the Springfield Cardinals, owned by the St. Louis Cardinals, and all of the Atlanta Braves ' affiliates except for the Lynchburg Hillcats.

Justice Lewis Powell recused himself owing to his ownership of stock in Anheuser-Busch, which owned the Cardinals.

However, Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis discovered that the Cardinals owned a team in Dayton, Ohio that played in the same league as Fort Wayne.

Aside from the affiliation, the Cardinals also owned the Wings and their stadium, then known as Red Wing Stadium.

The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals major-league club, and is owned by the Cardinals.

The park site continued to be owned by the Cardinals for a few more years.

The talent pipeline began at tryout camps that St. Louis scouts conducted throughout the U. S. " From quantity comes quality ," Rickey once observed, and, during the 1930s, with as many as 40 owned or affiliated farm teams, the Cardinals controlled the destinies of hundreds of players each year.

His name is derived from " Redbird ", a synonym for the cardinal bird and for the Cardinals themselves. Fredbird in 1983. Fredbird was introduced in 1979 by the Cardinals, then owned by Anheuser-Busch, to entertain younger fans at the games.

When the St. Louis Cardinals were owned by Anheuser-Busch, Busch Memorial Stadium organist Ernie Hays played " Here Comes the King ", a commonly recognized jingle for Budweiser beer, during the stretch.

The station is owned by the St. Louis Cardinals and CH Radio Holdings.

( The station is still partially owned by the Cardinals, even though they are now back on KMOX.

As pioneers of the farm system concept, the Cardinals had as many as 40 affiliated or owned teams in their minor league system before World War II.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

In the 1985 World Series against the cross-state St. Louis Cardinals ( nicknamed the " I-70 Series " because the two teams are both located in the state of Missouri and connected by Interstate 70 ), the Royals again fell behind 3 – 1.

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.

ESPN's Peter Gammons and Dan Patrick both picked The Brewers to beat out the defending champion Cardinals and re-vamped Chicago Cubs to win the NL Central.

On June 13, 2003, pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals in Yankee Stadium, Clemens recorded his 300th career win and 4, 000th career strikeout, the only player in history to record both milestones in the same game.

They have won 21 National League pennants and appeared in 18 World Series competitions – both records in the National League ( tied for NL pennants with the Los Angeles Dodgers and for World Series appearances with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals ).

He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later Cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there.

While Verne Lundquist replaced Summerall on games with lead analyst John Madden, Buck ( who was at the time the network's lead Major League Baseball announcer ) filled in for Lundquist, teaming with Dan Fouts to call two games ( both of which coincidentally featured the Cardinals, who had moved from St. Louis to Arizona by that time ).

Subsequent to this, in 2009, presumably due to a lack of funds and a lack of student participation on both ends, school rivals, the Orchard Orioles football team, and the Clearwater Cardinals football team, combined to form the O-C Cyclones.

And the NFL's Torry Holt ( Rams & Jaguars ) and his brother Terrence Holt ( Lions, Cardinals, Bears, Panthers, Saints ) are both natives of Gibsonville.

In accordance with tradition, the right of consecration belongs to the Dean of the College of Cardinals, in his absence to the Subdean, and in the absence of both of these, to the senior Cardinal Bishop.

Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading all major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Meanwhile, Chicago Cardinals owner Chris O ' Brien hastily scheduled two games against the Hammond Pros and the Milwaukee Badgers, both of whom had already disbanded for the season.

Later both the franchise and the NFL would claim the Cardinals as the 1925 champions.

The Bloomfield Cardinals replaced both teams in 1947.

As a result, the Cardinals had planned two extra games were scheduled against the Badgers and Hammond Pros, who were both losing teams in that season.

He had both runs batted in ( RBIs ) in the Cardinals ' 2 – 1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates that day.

After the season and the World Series, the managers, Johnny Keane of the St. Louis Cardinals and Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, both left their teams and found new jobs in the other league — Keane was hired to manage the Yanks and Berra became a player-coach with the New York Mets.

In addition to overseeing businesses such as a restaurant both before and after his playing career, Musial served as the Cardinals ' general manager in 1967, winning the pennant and World Series and then quitting that position.

Cardinals have the additional distinction of having both choir cassock sleeves and the fascia made of scarlet watered-silk.

Dan McLaughlin, professional sports broadcaster who currently works on both St. Louis Cardinals and previously with the St. Louis Blues for telecasts on the cable television channel Fox Sports Midwest.

After briefly playing under contract to both the basketball Harlem Globetrotters team and the St. Louis Cardinals organization, Gibson decided to only continue playing baseball professionally.

He is the current Dean of the College of Cardinals and former Cardinal Secretary of State, having held that post from 1990 to 2006, under both popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

The 2008 Cardinals finished second in the Big East and ranked 13th in both the AP and Coaches ' polls.

Players listed under MLB led both the AL and NL in those years, or had a sufficient total in a given category to lead the major leagues without leading either league ( for example, Mark McGwire's 58 homers in 1997 were the most in MLB, but he led neither league because he was traded from the Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals in midseason ).