Cardinals and Dodgers

[SWC75]

Watching the Cardinals and Dodgers play, I recognize that over the years, they have had the greatest success of all the national league teams. I know the Cardinals are second to the Yankees in World Series won. But I wondered: who has won the most pennants over the years, (and I mean league pennants, not divisional pennants). The answer can be found on Baseball Reference.com:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/

Just click on the name of the team and you have their entire historical record, which for the Cardinals and Dodgers begins with the American Association in the 1880’s. (And the Caridnals started out as the St. Louis Browns, then changed colors.) That was a major league at the time, the first rival to the National League. It went out of business in the early 1890’s but had enough credibility that their champion played the champion of the National League from 1885-1890. Many baseball historians regard those series as the first “World Series”, although others treat it as an exhibition series since in both the first and last years, the series ended with the two teams tied. But if you do treat those as championships and coutn the National League winner as the overall champions when the series ended in a tie, (because they were the more established league), it looks something like this:

1885 Cardinals tied “World Series” (WS)
1886 Cardinals won WS
1887 Cardinals lost WS
1888 Cardinals lost WS
1889 Dodgers lost WS
1890 Dodgers tied WS
1899 Dodgers (no rival league so no WS)
1900 Dodgers (no rival league so no WS)
1916 Dodgers lost WS
1920 Dodgers lost WS
1926 Cardinals won WS
1928 Cardinals lost WS
1930 Cardinals lost WS
1931 Cardinals won WS
1934 Cardinals won WS
1941 Dodgers lost WS
1942 Cardinals won WS
1943 Cardinals lost WS
1944 Cardinals won WS
1946 Cardinals won WS
1947 Dodgers lost WS
1949 Dodgers lost WS
1952 Dodgers lost WS
1953 Dodgers lost WS
1955 Dodgers won WS
1956 Dodgers loost WS
1959 Dodgers won WS
1963 Dodgers won WS
1964 Cardinals won WS
1965 Dodgers won WS
1966 Dodgers lost WS
1967 Cardinals won WS
1968 Cardinals lost WS
1974 Dodgers lost WS
1977 Dodgers lost WS
1978 Dodgers lsot WS
1981 Dodgers won WS
1982 Cardinals won WS
1985 Cardinals lost WS
1987 Cardinals lost WS
1988 Dodgers won WS
2004 Cardinals lost WS
2006 Cardinals won WS
2011 Cardinals won WS

I count 22 pennants a piece, the Cardinals with 12 “World” Championships and the Dodgers with 8. Quite a legacy.

 

[SUintheVille]

Nice info SWC. As a big Cardinals fan, I'm hoping that 12 number increases to 13. However, I am very concerned over their lack of offense so far in this series with the Dodgers.

 

[Billyo30]

1985 Cardinals lost WS * I still think this needs an asterisk: (see Don Denkinger)

 

[SWC75]

Nice info SWC. As a big Cardinals fan, I'm hoping that 12 number increases to 13. However, I am very concerned over their lack of offense so far in this series with the Dodgers.

You may get your wish.

 

[SWC75]

1985 Cardinals lost WS * I still think this needs an asterisk: (see Don Denkinger)

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