For more than 10years, the St. Louis Cardinals have taken their fans into October with the hope to win another World Series trophy.
For more than 10 years, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports and presentation staffs have created unique concepts for the newspaper's playoff preview section covers.
This year we asked our Weatherbird cartoonist, Dan Martin, to draw a unique concept to kick off this year's postseason. The last time he drew an NLDS preview cover was in 2013 against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
One problem, the Cardinals were scheduled to play the winner of the National League wild card game between the division rival Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh.