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Fantasy Baseball 2009 - St. Louis Cardinals
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itzmelaurent
Fantasy Baseball 2009 - St.
Louis Cardinals
St.
Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball team, are one of six teams in the Central Division
of the National League.
The Cardinals were formerly called the Brown Stockings and the...
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Fantasy Baseball 2009 - St.
Louis Cardinals
St.
Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball team, are one of six teams in the Central Division
of the National League.
The Cardinals were formerly called the Brown Stockings and the
Perfectos.
They play at Busch Memorial Stadium in St.
Louis, Missouri, and wear white, red
and yellow uniforms.
St.
Louis won its first World Series championship in 1926 guided by infielder Rogers Hornsby,
who won the Triple Crown twice by leading the league in batting average, home runs, and runs
batted in, in 1922 and 1925.
Hornsby’s lifetime batting average of .
358 is 2nd
only to that of
hall of famer Ty Cobb.
During the 1930s and 1940s the club won seven pennants and five World Series
championships with such stars as Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Joe
“Ducky” Medwick, Johnny Mize, Stan Musial, and Red Schoendienst.
Stan Musial, collected
3,630 career hits and recorded a .
331 lifetime batting average.
The St.
Louis Cardinals compiled t
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