Besides
having the prettiest uniforms in baseball,
the St. Louis Cardinals
have the 2006 World Series Championship
trophy. The Redbirds moved into a brand
new Busch Stadium and inaugurated their
new home in high style. The St.
Louis Cardinals came as close
as any team in baseball history to choking
and letting their chances slip away. But
in its first season, sold-out Busch Stadium
crowds saw them persevere and Tony La
Russa vault into St. Louis Cardinal
baseball sainthood.
As legendary and envelop-expanding as
La Russa’s managerial methods, the
last Cardinal team to win a championship,
won in 1986 with a style called “Whiteyball,”
named for beloved manager Whitey Herzog.
Both St. Louis Cardinals
managers are known for quick, scrappy
and cerebral baseball, with LaRussa famously
relying on statistics and playing the
percentages, sometimes to the chagrin
of the famous fans, considered by baseball
players to be the best in the land. Find
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The St. Louis Cardinals
have an old and storied past, and played
a few feet away at the first Busch Stadium
for forty years (1965-2005), and across
town at Sportsman’s Park.
Fan favorite St. Louis Cardinals
over the years have included Ozzie Smith,
Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Curt
Flood, Paul and Dizzy Dean, Enos Slaughter,
Red Schoendienst, Mark McGwire, Tim McCarver,
Joe Torre, Hall of Fame announcer Jack
Buck and recent Hall of Fame inductee
Ken … and now include manager supreme,
Tony La Russa…
The 2006 World Champion St. Louis
Cardinals included MVP David
Eckstein, Albert Pujols, Jim Edmonds,
Scott Rolen, Chris Carpenter, So Taguchi,
Yadier Molina, Jeff Suppan, Jason Marquis,
Chris Duncan and Scott Spiezio . Buy
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