The Cardinals are a great organization and St. Louis is a great baseball town. It’s quite something that they have been an elite club for much of the last 80 years.
Yes, having a successful baseball team - that hasn’t moved or anything - for all that time shows good management.
I’m not a sports fan, but it’s obvious that sports was important for national morale during the war.
I will never forget how the Cardinals fans treated the Red Sox when they finally won in ‘04. Nothing but class.
The Cardinals did very well to snatch La Russa and some of the championship A’s team in the early 90’s. I was an A’s fan at the time and was so upset that the A’s basically gutted their championship team that I switched to the SF Giants. St. Louis made out very well in that deal. Good for them.
In the meantime, I’m rooting for the Giants...Hoping for a well played, exciting NLCS no matter who wins.