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  1. St. Louis baseball commenced a renaissance: since 1926 the Cardinals have won eleven World Series and nineteen NL pennants. Breadon spurred this revival when he bought out the majority stake in 1920 and appointed Rickey as business manager, who expanded scouting, player development, and pioneered the minor league farm system , filling the role ...

  2. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. [8]

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    Chris von der Ahe

    Chris von der Ahe was the first owner of the Cardinals franchise, then known as the Brown Stockings and pioneered many of the elements commonly associated with the sport at the game. A German immigrant who made his way as a grocer and saloon owner, he saw potential in the sport without otherwise having any other background in it. He also became a polarizing figure with his employees and rivals: Von der Ahe was a flamboyant and magnanimous entrepreneur who gained enormous popularity in St. Lou...

    Sam Breadon

    First making his mark as a local automobile dealer, Sam Breadon first purchased a minority stake in the Cardinals in 1917 for $2,000, thus commencing 30 total years as owner of the Cardinals. Three years later, Breadon bought out the majority stock in the club to become the principal owner of the Cardinals and extinguished the futility that dredged the Cardinals' first three decades in the National League. Between 1926 and 1946, the Cardinals won six World Series titles and nine National Leag...

    Fred Saigh

    At the end of the 1947 baseball season, Saigh got wind that longtime Cardinals owner Sam Breadon wanted to sell. Breadon faced two problems. He was ill with prostate cancer, and he had been unable to find land on which to build a planned new ballpark. The Cardinals had rented Sportsman's Park from the city's other major league team, the American League Browns, since 1920. The Cardinals had long since surpassed the Browns as the city's most popular team, and Breadon wanted to build a park of h...

    Note: β– Breadon was co-owner from 1917 to 1920 with no majority team owners at that time, but became principal owner in 1920 when he became president and the largest shareholder. He bought control...

    The president typically reports direct to the owner in the case where the two positions were not held by the same person.

    A total of 14 general managers have served for the Cardinals. Branch Rickey was the Cardinals' first official GM – however, his role initially called for him to function more as a business manager – as he pioneered certain functions attributed to the contemporary GM, such as developing the forerunner of the minor league farm system that all Major L...

    Prior executives

    1. Sheldon "Chief" Bender 2. Bob Gebhard 3. Marty Hendin 4. Fred Koenig 5. Fred McAlister 6. Joe McDonald 7. George Silvey 8. Lee Thomas, Director of player personnel (1980–1988) 9. Dick Wagner 10. Jerry Walker

    Other current team executives

    1. Moisés Rodríguez, Assistant General Manager 2. Randy Flores, Assistant General Manager & Director of Scouting 3. Gary LaRocque, Assistant General Manager & Director of Player Development 4. Matt Slater, Special Assistant to GM/Player Procurement 5. John Vuch, Director, Baseball Administration

    Hetrick, J. Thomas (1999). Chris Von Der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3473-1.
    Judd, Dennis (2002). The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0956-4.
  4. The Official Site of Major League Baseball. Stan Musial is the club's all-time leader in games (3,206), runs (1,949), hits (3,630), doubles (725), triples (177), home ...

  5. Get information about St. Louis Cardinals history, past franchise names, retired numbers, top players and more on Baseball-Reference.com.

  6. May 18, 2024 · St. Louis Cardinals, American professional baseball team established in 1882 that is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and plays in the National League. The Cardinals have won 11 World Series titles and 23 league pennants. The team is second to the New York Yankees in World Series championships.

  7. 1942. Winning 43 out of their last 51 games, St. Louis erased a 10.5 game deficit and passed Brooklyn on September 13th on their way to a world championship. The 106-48 Cardinals are considered won of baseball's all-time greatest teams; the average player age was under 27.

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