The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals have played their home games at Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. One of the nation’s oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, 19 National League pennants and 15 division titles in the East and Central divisions. In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era’s professional baseball championship series, a forerunner of the modern World Series. In 1892, the Browns joined the National League. In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals. St. Louis Cardinals players have won 20 league MVPs, four batting Triple Crowns, and three Cy Young Awards. Baseball Hall of Fame inductees include Lou Brock, Dizzy Dean, Bob Gibson, Whitey Herzog, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Medwick, Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Branch Rickey, Red Schoendienst, Ozzie Smith, Ted Simmons, and Bruce Sutter. The Cardinals are renowned for their strong fan support: despite being in one of the sport’s mid-level markets, they routinely see attendances among the league’s highest, and are consistently among the top three in MLB in local television ratings. Through 2022, the Cardinals’ all-time win-loss record is 11,131 – 10,232.