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Cardinals players have won 21 league MVPs, four batting Triple Crowns, and three Cy Young Awards.

The Cardinals have won 105 or more games in four seasons and won 100 or more nine times. Notable Cardinals achievements include manager/owner Branch Rickey's invention of the farm system, Rogers Hornsby's two batting Triple Crowns, Dizzy Dean's 30- win season in 1934, Stan Musial's 17 MLB and 29 NL records, Bob Gibson's 1.12 earned run average (ERA) in 1968, Whitey Herzog's Whiteyball, Mark McGwire's single-season home run record in 1998, the 2011 championship team's unprecedented comebacks, and Albert Pujols’ 700th home run. Louis Browns team joined the American League.) In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals. In 1892, the Browns – also called the Perfectos – joined the National League. In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, now the Chicago Cubs, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era's professional baseball championship series, a forerunner of the modern World Series. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis has also won 15 division titles in the East and Central divisions. The team has won 19 National League pennants, third-most of any team. One of the nation's oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, the most of any NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals have played their home games at Busch Stadium in downtown St.

The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St.