The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Cardinals have won a National League record 10 World Series championships, second only to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball who have 26.

The Cardinals were founded in the American Association in 1882 as the St. Louis Brown Stockings, taking the name from an earlier National League team.

The club quickly achieved success, winning four AA pennants in a row, 1885-1888.

They won their first National League pennant in 1926, and then defeated the favored New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.

The Cardinals returned to their winning ways in 1981; however, a rule change because of the strike-shortened season left the Cardinals out of the playoffs.

With Smith, and playing a form of baseball nicknamed Whiteyball after manager Whitey Herzog, the Cardinals won the 1982 World Series over Robin Yount and the Milwaukee Brewers, which was nicknamed the "Sudway Series," spoofing the two cities roots in the brewing indstury.

Whitey's Cardinals would then return to the Fall Classic again a few seasons later, as they met George Brett and the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series.

The team won the NL Central that season and defeated the Padres in the NLDS before falling to the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS.

The St. Louis Cardinals won 100 games and another Central Division title in 2005, but lost in an NLCS rematch to the Astros.

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