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St. Louis Cardinals award winners and league leaders

The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Before joining the NL in 1892, they were also a charter member of the American Association (AA) from 1882 to 1891. Although St. Louis has been the Cardinals' home city for the franchise's entire existence, they were also known as the Brown Stockings, Browns, and Perfectos.

In 134 seasons, the franchise has won more than 10,000 regular season games and appeared in 27 postseasons while claiming 12 interleague championships and 23 league pennants. Eleven of the interleague championships are World Series titles won under the modern format since 1903; 19 of the league pennants are NL pennants, and the other four are AA pennants.[1] Their 11 World Series titles represent the most in the NL and are second in MLB only to the New York Yankees' 27.

The first major award MLB presented for team performance occurred with the World Series champions in 1903, and for individual performance, in 1911 in the American League with the Chalmers Award. The first major award that the National League presented for individual performance was the League Award in 1924, the predecessor of the modern Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). Rogers Hornsby earned the League Award in 1925 making him the first winner of an MVP or its equivalent in franchise history. The following season, the Cardinals won their first modern World Series. They won the first World Series Trophy,[2] following their 1967 World Series title,[3] which, before that year, the World Series champion had never received any kind of official trophy.[4]

Individual awards

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Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

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Major League Baseball (MLB), with voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), first presented the modern MVP award to one player each in the American and National League in 1931. Voting is accomplished with two writers from each city containing an MLB club, of whom each fills in a ballot with the names of ten players, ranking each from first to tenth.[5] The BBWAA began polling three writers in each league city in 1938 and reduced that number to two per league city in 1961. One of the MVP award's predecessors was the League Award, which the National League awarded via of voting process in a similar fashion to that of the BBWAA from 1924 to 1929.[6]

17 different Cardinals players have won the award a total of 21 times. Stan Musial and Albert Pujols are the only players to have won multiple times, each having won three times. Pujols is the only Cardinals player to have won in consecutive seasons, in 2008 and 2009. The most consecutive seasons a Cardinals player has won the award is three, which occurred from 1942 to 1944 between Mort Cooper, Musial, and Marty Marion. Typically awarded to position players, Cardinals pitchers who have won an MVP award are Cooper, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Gibson.

League Award (1924–1929)

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Most Valuable Player Award (1931–present)

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Cy Young Award (1956–present)

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Rookie of the Year Award (1947–present)

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Manager of the Year Award (1983–present)

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Triple Crown

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Hank Aaron Award (1999–present)

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World Series Most Valuable Player Award (1955–1993, 1995–present)

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League Championship Series Most Valuable Player (1977–1993, 1995–present)

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All-MLB Team (2019–present)

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All-Star Game Selections (1933–2019, 2021–present)

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Gold Glove Award (1957–present)

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Platinum Glove Award (2011–present)

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The Platinum Glove is a fan-voted award conferred annually to single out the top-fielding player from all Gold Glove winners in each league.[7]

Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award (2012–2019)

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Note: In 2012 and 2013, the award was given to a player on each MLB team; one awardee was then named the Overall Defensive Player of the Year for the American League and another for the National League. From 2014 to 2019, the award was given to one player at each position for all of MLB; one of the nine awardees was then named the Overall Defensive Player of the Year for all of Major League Baseball.

Fielding Bible Award (2006–present)

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Silver Slugger Award (1980–present)

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Rolaids Relief Man Award (1976–2012)

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Reliever of the Year Award (2014–present)

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Comeback Player of the Year Award (2005–present)

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Roberto Clemente Award (1971–present)

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MLB All-Century Team (1999)

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DHL Hometown Heroes (2006)

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Voted by MLB fans as the most outstanding player in the history of the franchise, based on on-field performance, leadership quality, and character value.

MLB All-Time Team (1997)

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Cardinals award winners include those who played the highest number of games in their career with the Cardinals.[8]

Sporting News Awards

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MLB Athlete of the Decade (2000–2009)

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Sportsman of the Year / Pro Athlete of the Year / Athlete of the Year

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Note: Normally awarded to one athlete across all sports.

Most Valuable Player Award (1929–1945)

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Player of the Year Award

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NL Pitcher of the Year Award

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NL Rookie of the Year Award

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NL Fireman of the Year / Reliever of the Year Award (1960–2010)

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NL Comeback Player of the Year Award

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Manager of the Year Award

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Executive of the Year Award

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Sports Illustrated MLB All-Decade Team (2009)

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Best Major League Baseball Player ESPY Award

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Topps All-Star Rookie teams

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Players Choice Awards

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In 1992, the Comeback Player of the Year was the first and only Players' Choice honor; others followed in subsequent years.

Player of the Year

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Marvin Miller Man of the Year

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NL Outstanding Player

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NL Outstanding Pitcher

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NL Outstanding Rookie

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NL Comeback Player

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MLB Insiders Club Magazine All-Postseason Team (2011)

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Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

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Heart & Hustle Award

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Tony Conigliaro Award

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Branch Rickey Award (1992–2014)

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Ford C. Frick Award

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Names in bold received the award based on their work as Cardinals broadcasters.

* Played and broadcast for the Cardinals

Team Awards

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Note: The Cardinals were originally known as the St. Louis Brown Stockings (1882), St. Louis Browns (1883–1898), and St. Louis Perfectos (1899), before becoming the Cardinals in 1900.

Team records (single-season)

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Main article: List of St. Louis Cardinals team records

Minor-league system

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Minor League Player and Pitcher of the Year

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Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award

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Main article: Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award
  • 1999 – Rick Ankiel

USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award

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Main article: USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award
  • 1999 – Rick Ankiel

Joe Bauman Home Run Award

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Main article: Joe Bauman Home Run Award

Other achievements

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National Baseball Hall of Fame

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See St. Louis Cardinals#Hall of Famers

St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame

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See St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum

Darryl Kile Good Guy Award

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See: Darryl Kile Award and footnote[10]

Retired numbers

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See St. Louis Cardinals#Retired numbers

Sports Illustrated Top 20 Male Athletes of the Decade

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  • 2009 – Albert Pujols (#9)[11]

Associated Press Athlete of the Year

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Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

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See: St. Louis Cardinals § Inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

Jack Buck Award

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Main article: Jack Buck Award

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ "St. Louis Cardinals team history & encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  2. ^ The World Series Trophy was first awarded in 1970. In 1985, it was renamed the Commissioner's Trophy. From 1970 to 1984, the "Commissioner's Trophy" was the name of the award that was given to the All-Star Game MVP.
  3. ^ Rhodes, Greg; Castellini, Robert (2007). Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights. Clerisy Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-57860-300-8. Retrieved May 18, 2009.
  4. ^ "5 Things You Didn't Know About The World Series Trophy". WBZ-TV. October 31, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  5. ^ Gillette, Gary; Palmer, Pete (2007). The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia (Fourth ed.). New York City: Sterling Publishing Co. p. 1763. ISBN 978-1-4027-4771-7.
  6. ^ Gillette & Palmer, pp. 1764–1765
  7. ^ "Platinum Glove Award". baseball almanac. March 25, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  8. ^ Brown, Gerry, and Morrison, Michael (eds.; 2003). ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac. New York City: ESPN Books and Hyperion (joint). ISBN 0-7868-8715-X.
  9. ^ a b The World Series Trophy was first awarded in 1967. In 1985, it was renamed the Commissioner's Trophy. From 1970 to 1984, the "Commissioner's Trophy" was the name of the award given to the All-Star Game MVP.
  10. ^ Two awards are presented each year, one to a St. Louis Cardinal and one to a Houston Astro, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being "a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man." The winners are selected, respectively, by the St. Louis and Houston chapters of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Darryl Kile Award. Baseball Almanac. Retrieved July 2, 2010.
  11. ^ See: Sports Illustrated Top 20 Male Athletes of the Decade.
  12. ^ "Ernie Hays Awarded Jack Buck Award". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
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