The St. Louis Cardinals, according to available records, were original members of the National League that began operation in 1876 with teams in Chicago (Cubs), Hartford, Boston, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The Cubs won the pennant as NL champions with the Cardinals finishing second.
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The St. Louis Cardinals football team moved to Arizona in 1988, becoming the Phoenix Cardinals. They changed the team name from Phoenix to Arizona Cardinals in 1994.
The St. Louis Browns left St. Louis in 1953 to relocate to Baltimore. The club's name was changed to the Orioles.
The American League Browns, who were in St. Louis between 1902-1953, played at Sportsman Park located on North Grand Boulevard and shared the park with the Cardinals.
The 1944 St. Louis Cardinals of the National League defeated the St. Louis Browns of the American League, four games to two.
The St. Louis Cardinals never played in the American League. They originated in 1882 in the American Association as the St. Louis Brown Stockings. The following season they shortened the name to Browns. After ten years in the AA they joined the National League as the Browns in 1892. Back during those days there was a thing called 'syndicate ownership' where one person or group could own more than one team. The owners of the Cleveland Spiders, Frank and Stanley Robison, bought the Browns prior to the 1899 season. They moved their best players from the Spiders to the Browns and their 'worst' players from the Browns to the Spiders. They also changed the name of the team from Browns to Perfectos for the 1899 season and made the team color cardinal red. This led sportswriters to give the team the nickname of Cardinals and the name was changed to from Perfectos to Cardinals in 1900.
The St. Louis Browns existed as a baseball team from 1902 until 1953. The franchised then moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore Orioles of today.