The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the oldest and most successful franchises in Major League Baseball history. They joined the league as the St. Louis Brown Stockings in 1882, and they've maintained a level of success for nearly 150 years since.
Since the institution of the World Series in 1903, the Cardinals have made it to baseball's biggest stage 19 times, second most in the National League behind only the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Cardinals have won the World Series 11 times during that stretch, just narrowly edging out the Los Angeles Dodgers.
With the Los Angeles Dodgers' victory over the Toronto Blue Jays this year, they bring themselves even closer to the Cardinals for National League supremacy.