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From 1876 to 1877, the St. Louis Brown Stockings played in the National League (NL). Because of financial and management problems, however, they were dropped from the league although finishing, respectively, second and fourth in regular seasons. Then, in 1882, the Brown Stockings—renamed Browns in 1883—joined the American Association (AA) and played their home games at the 6000-seat Sportsman’s Park. A few years after winning four consecutive championships and then collapse of the AA, the Browns entered the 12-team NL.
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See, for example, such books as Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline on their website. The reference for this chapter is http://www.stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com.
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Two sources for this information are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015.
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Before 1943, other Cardinals NL MVPs were Mort Cooper, Joe Medwick, Dizzy Dean, Frankie Frisch, Jim Bottomley, Bob O’Farrell, and Rogers Hornsby.
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“William O. DeWitt, Jr.,” http://www.stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com cited 9 August 2015.
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For this and other financial data, see “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015 and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Business articles about the Cardinals franchise include Eric Fisher, John Ourand and Terry Lefton, “Who’s Got the Juice in the Business of Baseball?” SportsBusiness Journal (23 March 2015): 15 and Vahe Gregorian, “Cheer if You Must, But Cardinals Report Hurts Everyone,” Charlotte Observer (18 June 2015): 4B.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). St. Louis Cardinals. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_10
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