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The first logo associated with the Cardinals was an interlocking "SL" that appeared on the team's caps and or sleeves as early as 1899 or 1900 (depending on the source). Those early uniforms usually featured the name "St. Louis" on white home and gray road uniforms which both had cardinal red accents. During an 1899 road trip to Chicago, a girl ...
St. Louis. Chess Capital of the World [24] Gateway to the West [25] Lion of the Valley [26] The Lou [27] Mound City [11] [25] River City [28] Rome of the West [29] There's More Than Meets the Arch [12] Salem – Charcoal Capital of the World [30] Sedalia – The Queen City of the Prairie [31] Springfield. Birthplace of Route 66 [32] Queen City ...
St. Louis (/ s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t-/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) [11] is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, [8] while its metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated ...
Louis Clark Brock (June 18, 1939 – September 6, 2020) was an American professional baseball left fielder.He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent most of it as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
It is the third stadium in St. Louis to carry the name Busch Stadium. Sportsman's Park was renamed Busch Stadium in 1953; then-team owner August Busch Jr. had planned to name it Budweiser Stadium, but at the time league rules prohibited naming a venue after an alcoholic beverage. [ 19 ]
"Skip to My Lou" was featured in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. Sections of the song arranged by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane are sung to the tunes of " Kingdom Coming " and " Yankee Doodle ". In the 1951 film Across the Wide Missouri it is sung by Clark Gable (while playing a Jew's Harp ) and others throughout the movie.
See History of the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) for more details on the team's tenure in St. Louis; Los Angeles Rams, a professional NFL team known as the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015 See History of the St. Louis Rams for more details on the team's tenure in St. Louis; St. Louis All-Stars, a professional football team during the 1923 NFL season