St. Louis Cardinals Tickets

As the St. Louis Cardinals prepare for the 2008 season, fans with tickets to St. Louis Cardinals games at Busch Stadium and other baseball venues across the country are hoping their team will once again pull out a World Series win, defending their title as one of Major League Baseball’s greatest teams.

The St. Louis Cardinals, originally known as the St. Louis Browns, were formed as part of the American Association in 1882. When the American Association folded just a few short years later, the St. Louis Cardinals became part of the National League, where they were called the St. Louis Perfectos. Finally, in 1900, the team became the St. Louis Cardinals, as they are still known today.

The Cardinals soon had a strong following as the team won four American Association pennants in a row from 1885 to 1888. Fans showed up to St. Louis Cardinals games across the country to cheer on their favorite players and watch baseball history being made. The St. Louis Cardinals won their first World Series title in 1886, and are now the second most successful team in Major League Baseball history, winning ten World Series titles, second only to the New York Yankees twenty-six Series wins.

After moving to the National League in 1892, the team found little success for the next thirty years, until, in 1920, general manager Branch Rickey began to use the minor league farm system to train players and began turning out some of baseball’s greatest players. In 1926, the Cardinals would go on to win the World Series, beating out the favored New York Yankees. The two teams would face off again in the 1928 World Series, with the Yankees avenging their earlier loss.

The St. Louis Cardinals won back-to-back pennants in 1930 and 1931, and managed to win the Series in 1931. 1934 brought the team another pennant and the World Series, against the Detroit Tigers. In 1942, the St. Louis Cardinals would go on to make Major League Baseball history by winning a franchise record 106 games and beating out the Yankees again in the World Series. The 1944 World Series was a first for the team as they battled their cross-town rivals, the St. Louis Browns, eventually winning their fifth World Series title. In 1946, the team beat out the Boston Red Sox for another Series title, finishing out their winning streak until the 1964 season, when they would again return to the World Series and once again beat the New York Yankees. With the help of powerhouse pitcher Bob Gibson, the St. Louis Cardinals once again headed to the World Series, but lost out to the Detroit Tigers. This would be the last time the St. Louis Cardinals advanced to the World Series for ten years.

The 1980s had the St. Louis Cardinals returning to their powerhouse ways, with the team reaching the World Series in 1982, 1985, and 1987. After the 1987 series, the Cardinals fell out of the limelight, until the 1998, when slugger Mark McGwire broke the single series homerun record, hitting seventy home runs, battling against Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa to be the first player to break the previous record.

The first seven years of the twentieth century were a huge success for the St. Louis Cardinals, with the team winning the National League Central title six out of seven seasons, although they did not make it back to the World Series until 2004, when they were trounced by the Boston Red Sox. In 2006 the St. Louis Cardinals were finally able to pull off the World Series win, beating the favored Detroit Tigers for the coveted title.

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