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The 1959 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 78th season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 68th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 71–83 during the season and finished seventh in the National League, 16 games behind the NL pennant winner and World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers .
The ballpark (by then known as Busch Stadium, but still commonly called Sportsman's Park) was also the home to professional football: in 1923, it hosted St. Louis' first NFL team, the All-Stars, and later hosted the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League from 1960 (following the team's relocation from Chicago) until 1965, with ...
After the 1953 season the Browns left St. Louis to become the Baltimore Orioles (but kept the same colors), leaving the Cardinals as the only major league team in town. [ 5 ] With the breaking of the color barrier that had started in 1947 , in 1954 , the Cardinals débuted Tom Alston , the first African-American player on the Major League club ...
The city of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States is home to more than a dozen professional, semi-professional, and collegiate sports teams. The Sporting News rated St. Louis the nation's "Best Sports City" in 2000 [1] and the Wall Street Journal named it the best sports city in 2015. [2] St. Louis has three major league sports teams.
From 1983 to 1986 he served as a scout and offensive line coach for the Cardinals, under head coach Jim Hanifan, who had earlier been McMillan's offensive line coach in St. Louis. In 1990–1991, he was an assistant coach at Sumner High School , winning state championships during those years.
Eric Cortez Wright (born April 18, 1959) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the 49ers in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft .
1960 (St. Louis) → The 1959 Chicago Cardinals season was the team's 40th and final season in Chicago . The Cardinals opened the season with a 49–21 home win over the Washington Redskins at Soldier Field , but finished with a record of two wins and ten losses, last place in the Eastern Conference.
The 1959–60 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1959 and January 1960 to end the 1959 college football season. A total of nine team-competitive games, [ 1 ] and four all-star games, were played.