With the NLDS Division Series trophy safely tucked away in Busch Stad—wait—there isn’t a Division Series trophy?! I probably knew that but probably forget every year. There should be a trophy...
With a trophy memories from a hard-fought Division Series victory safely tucked away in their trophy case memories, the Cards earned the right to turn another page in this already deeply satisfying season, starting the next chapter titled, NLCS: The Ghost of Devil Magic Past.
The one and only time the Washington franchise won a Division Series was the strike-shortened split season of 1981, when they played in a whole ‘nuther country as the Montreal Expositions (named after the World’s Fair Expo in 1967, the team’s inaugural season).