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During the Cardinals' tenure in St. Louis, they were locally called the "Big Red", the "Football Cardinals", or "the Gridbirds" in order to avoid confusion with the baseball team. [1] The Cardinals played in the original Busch Stadium as tenants of the baseball team. St. Louis had not had a professional football team since the early days of the ...
The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). In 1953, the Anheuser-Busch (AB) brewery bought the Cardinals, and August "Gussie" Busch became team president. Busch's influence is still seen today as three of the Cardinals' home stadia ...
The Cardinals are the oldest extant professional football club in the United States, and along with the Chicago Bears, are one of two charter members of the National Football League still in existence. The franchise moved from Chicago to St. Louis in 1960 and to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1988.
Tenants. St. Louis Cardinals (MLB) (2006–present) Busch Stadium (also referred to informally as " New Busch Stadium " or " Busch Stadium III ") is a baseball stadium located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the home of Major League Baseball 's St. Louis Cardinals. It has a seating capacity of 44,383, [2] with 3,706 club seats and 61 luxury suites.
Chris von der Ahe (1882–1898) Chris von der Ahe baseball card. 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 ...
This category is all NFL players who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, now known as the Arizona Cardinals. There are separate categories for each era of the franchise: Category:Chicago Cardinals players (1920–1959) Category:St. Louis Cardinals (football) players (1960–1987) Category:Phoenix Cardinals players (1988–1993)
The 1972 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 53rd year with the National Football League and thirteenth in St. Louis. On September 2, Bill Bidwill purchased the stock of his brother Charles "Stormy" Bidwill to become sole owner of the Cardinals. [1][2] The adopted sons of Charles and Violet Bidwill, [3][4] the two had co-owned the team ...
Terry Metcalf. Terrance Randolph Metcalf (born September 24, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL), five of them with the St. Louis Cardinals and one with the Washington Redskins. He also played three seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL ...