History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1875–1919)

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miffed at his removal from the position of team president, Breadon instead offered him the position of vice president, which he accepted. With a loan from Breadon, he purchased a stake in the team amounting to less than 20%. At this point, Rickey was firmly entrenched in nearly all front office decisions. In

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the old Sportsman's club and St. Louis Base Ball Association for failure to pay league dues and player transaction fees. A new franchise, the American Base ball and Athletic Exhibition Company of St. Louis, was admitted to the league as a full member in good standing after paying those outstanding debts.

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Due to possessing an apparent genius for player development, Jones initially attempted to persuade Rickey to surrender his in-game managerial duties to concentrate fully on the front office. However, he insisted upon remaining the field manager while carrying on his front office duties and continued

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in 1919 that a web be laced between the thumb and forefinger to create a pocket that extended the surface by which the fielder could catch the ball. Also that year, the league moved to ban pitching with the spitball due in part to it giving the pitcher an unfair advantage over the hitter. However,

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Because Anderson held the second-largest share in the club, he reasoned that he should be named vice president. However, Breadon balked. Dejected at his refusal to share power, Anderson sold Breadon all his remaining stock, ending his baseball ownership career. Perceiving that Rickey may have been

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auto dealer who still owned a minority share, decided that he enjoyed his interaction with sports stars after meeting Hornsby at a baseball dinner in 1917. Through this point, he had conceded frequent requests for financial assistance but decided to raise his stake in the corporation to $ 2,000. In

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of the Cardinals. Ball was contemptuous of Rickey's religious practices which influenced his approach to the game, and the two men frequently clashed as thus. In spite of the quarreling, Rickey was reluctant to join the Cardinals because the club was notoriously undercapitalized and underachieving.

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destroyed the stadium and forced the team into bankruptcy. A resulting lawsuit forced Von der Ahe to sell the team at auction. C. Edward Becker purchased all of the St. Louis club's stock and became known informally as "Chris's angel". In the spring of 1899, the NL board of directors met and expelled

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in the National League was largely a disappointment. They crumbled to only their second losing record as a fully professional team, finishing 11th; their winning percentage plunged from .625 in 1891 to .373. It would be the start of a quarter-century downturn in the franchise's fortunes. Between 1892

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After quickly acquiring some of the greatest fiscal investment in the club, Jones named Breadon as chairman of the board. Late in 1919, Jones asked him to accept the position as president of the team. Envisaging a possibility of frustrated control due to the number of persons comprising the board,

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team's third-place finish with a league-leading team 2.38 ERA caused a stir as a St. Louis team had not fared that well in the National League since 1876. It was also their best positional placement since 1891, a second-place finish in the final year of the American Association. In addition to his

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with plans to travel to New York City to play the Cuban Giants in a lucrative exhibition game. However, the night before departure to New York, eight Browns players signed and delivered a letter to Von der Ahe stating their disagreement to "play against negroes to-morrow", because they thought they

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Cardinals toiled to match their third-place finish in 1914. Hornsby, entering his prime, led the NL in slugging percentage (.484) and OPS (.869) and rated his best defensive season at 3.5 wins above average. Rickey frequently bickered with Huggins, who chafed over Rickey's theoretical approach to

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compiled a 45–20 record while allowing a 1.63 ERA and striking out 258 in 585 innings in 1888. His 15.8 total WAR is the Cardinals' franchise record, the ninth-highest single season total in history, 14.0 pitching WAR the 11th-highest and his 195 ERA+ is the 41st-best in major league history. That

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until the pitcher threw nine balls and the number required to draw a walk was eventually whittled down to four in the 1880s. Hit batsmen did not automatically get awarded first base at first (it was instead counted as a ball) and foul balls and pitches taken in the strike zone were not initially

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at .704. The Browns finished with a winning percentage of .625 or better eight times. One of the three teams to participate in all ten seasons in the league's history, St. Louis totaled 780 wins and 432 losses for a .689 winning percentage. Both the win total and winning percentage are league

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Until 1874, St. Louis carried only amateur teams – two of the most prominent being the Empires and Unions – as its top level of competition. Long after other cities had established all-professional clubs, the results were almost always identical month after month, year after year: the highly

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Although it was not apparent at the time, the Browns had crested. While they would never win another AA pennant, the Browns remained one of the league's strongest clubs until the league's end, finishing in second twice and third once in each of the next three seasons. On the last day of the

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died and became the first female owner of a professional sports team in United States history. In memory of her father, Britton renamed the Cardinals stadium from League Park to Robison Field. Also from Cleveland, she owned the Cardinals until selling off all her holdings in

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starred for the Browns. In the formative years of the major leagues, where record statistical achievement transpired that is perceived as rare in today's game, a group of talented stars including Caruthers and O'Neill cogented St. Louis' way. O'Neill won the first batting

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in 1870. The White Stockings trained by playing amateur teams in nearby major cities such as St. Louis – who proved nearly unbeatable, resulting in consistently lopsided victories for Chicago – before becoming a charter member of the first all-professional league, the

1107:– a younger brother of the original Brown Stockings' owner J. B. C. Lucas II – owned the Maroons and established the league. The Maroons won the league with a 94–19 record (.832 winning percentage) in its only year of existence, then joined the National League the 883:, who before had reported on underhanded agreements to fix games prior to the expulsion, lobbied to get professional baseball back in St. Louis. The team's play did not disappoint, helping to draw local fans from their antipathy toward the sport and back into 1424:

included an account in a column of a female fan from Chicago remarking about the uniforms, "Oh, isn't that a lovely shade of cardinal." Fans took keenly to the moniker "Cardinals" and, the next year, popularity for the nickname induced an official change to

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skilled, professional clubs such as the White Stockings continuously walloped those of St. Louis. The scoreboard embarrassment finally convinced locals that an all-professional team was in order. City leaders raised $ 20,000 to make this happen – the

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Meanwhile, the fan-controlled club continued to lack a point man with substantial baseball operations experience to run the club. However, the club found their operations manager in 1917 when the Cardinals ownership group persuaded new Browns

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garnered large crowds. He purchased the club in 1881, and – together with other club owners (who also happened to beer magnates) interested in creating professional league that could rival the National League – made it a charter member of the

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Breadon demanded a condition that the number of members of the board be reduced from 25 to five. After a meeting, he accepted the position with a board membership that was reduced to seven, supplanting Rickey as team president.

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to root out and St. Louis baseball teams would prove to be no exemption. However, it was economic expansion and civic pride that ultimately drew professional baseball to St. Louis, but not first without a catalyst of emulation.

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on April 23. Despite the new park and league, the struggles the club encountered to rediscover the form of success that hallmarked their dominance in the American Association endured. The team bottomed out in

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were prohibited from throwing overhand – they were only permitted to throw underhanded or sidearmed. They threw from a flat outlined box without a designated point of footing to release the ball instead of a

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Helene Britton, owner of the team 1911–1916, with her husband Schuyler. Britton was the first female owner of a professional sports team. Schulyer served as team president 1913–1916.

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for a larger property at Vandeventer and Natural Bridge Avenues, Von der Ahe moved the club a few blocks north-northwest from Grand and Dodier and opened a new park christened as "

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The game of baseball as it is played today is significantly removed from the game that originated in the late 19th century in the northeastern United States. Noted baseball

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St. Louis found their first taste of consistent, competitive Major League baseball starting in 1882, their first year in a now-defunct former major league known as the

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continued its resurgent play with a 76–64 record propelled by the highest-scoring offense in the NL, finishing in fourth place out of eight teams. Burkett, an

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began play in the NA as well. However, the Red Stockings were short-lived as they performed poorly. The Brown Stockings acquired four-time home run champion

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of Cy Young in uniform with the St Louis team before Opening Day 1899. Finding a photo of Young with St. Louis is difficult and this may be the only one.

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1919 Bill Doak Glove paved the future of baseball gloves, featuring a revolutionary built-in pocket and the thumb and forefinger attached to form a web.

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of 201, and an OBP of .446. He also finished in the top ten in batting average at .334, triples, walks, and second in slugging percentage (.527).

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Hoping to reverse St. Louis' fortunes coming off a 39–111 season, Robison adopted new uniforms with a cardinal red trim and sock striping prior to

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With limited financial resources, the club could ill-afford to sign the amount of the caliber of players required to field a competitive team.

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Racial segregation started to become a custom in baseball about the time that eight Browns members withdrew from playing an exhibition game

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After nearly a decade of lackluster performance on the field and declining profits off it, a calamitous fire at New Sportsman's Park in

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in franchise history, but it would be the last no-hitter in the American Association, as the league went bankrupt and ceased operations

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prohibited further signing of black players. Ironically, it would be by an act 60 years later by then-former Cardinals executive in

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title at 2.11 and 41 games won in 504 innings pitched, and batted .280 with 18 doubles, 9 triples, three home runs, 59 RBIs, and 17

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he helped lead an initiative to which the owners eventually agreed to a provision that allowed himself and 16 other spitballers to

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However, the cancelation of the game with the Cuban Giants was merely symptomatic of a larger trend around the sport. That season,

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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game

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The winter following the disestablishment of the NA, six teams from that league – the Brown Stockings, the White Stockings, the

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Fielders played barehanded; gloves did not become prevalent until the 1880s and at that point they resembled work gloves. The

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This article is about the history of the Major League Baseball team. For the NFL franchise that once played in St. Louis, see

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motivated Chicago city leaders to organize and recruit a club composed solely of professional players, which became the

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in a new all-professional baseball league, the American Association – ironically, as a rival to the National League.

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regarded as strikes. Both fair ball and foul ball rules varied, influencing the batter's ability to get on base.

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that he established ahead of its time and helped actuate the Cardinals' second golden era later in the 1920s.

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publicly threatened not to play any 'white' professional teams who hired black players just months after the

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The same season St. Louis chartered the Brown Stockings, another all-professional startup in St. Louis, the

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in the 1860s, sprouting numerous amateur teams around the city. The sport especially drew the attention of

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During the height of the Browns' success in the American Association, another St. Louis entry known as the

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with a pitching rubber until 1893. The pitcher's mound did not receive official recognition until 1903.

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The success of baseball clubs such as the self-proclaimed "original" professional baseball club, the

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before the 1901 season – during a time when jumping was commonplace. In spite of Young's departure,

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to a group of investors, including her attorney James C. Jones and a local automobile dealer named

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After the American Association collapsed, the Browns joined the National League along with the

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and the best all-time record in that league's history. They also took their first interleague

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when it finished 29–102; the .221 winning percentage is still the worst in franchise history.

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that ensues to this day. This 1886 World Series was also the only one won by any AA team.

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like the modern game with an extra fielder, analogous with the softball "rover". In 1856,

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due to a game-fixing scandal that involved two players whom they had acquired from the

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briefly pitched and managed for the Cardinals, sporting a 2.02 ERA in 317 innings in

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of their first three decades in the National League in terms of won-lost records.

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Before They Were Cardinals: Major-League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis

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With interest in reviving professional baseball in St. Louis steadily growing,

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more than contemporary baseball. The style of play diverged in many facets.

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prototype, the Chicago White Stockings for the first two World Series. The

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of this urban rivalry. While St. Louis developed as the major hub of the

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Due to their AA pennant wins, the Browns played in a predecessor of the

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from August to November 1918 in World War I in France serving in the

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The ascent and decline of St. Louis professional baseball (1875–1881)

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However, another role as team president meant Rickey could stay in

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year, the Browns' pitching staff posted a 2.09 ERA and a 152 ERA+.

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observed with fascination that the team playing near his store and

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From the moment of the Brown Stockings' resignation from the NL,

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all agreed to form a new all-professional baseball league, the

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against the Dark Blues. He led the NL that year with a 1.23

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After dropping even further toward the bottom of the NL in

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in the team, a saloon and grocery store owner. Before the

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part inquesting his own financial relief, Rickey took a

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However, St. Louis was expelled from the NL after the

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team for four years behind the efforts of outfielder

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Baseball fever grew rapidly across the US before the

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that broke the color barrier in MLB when he debuted

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