Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals Good Season Thus Far

Only the St. Louis Cardinals deserve real credit to this point in baseball 2015, the 21st season with the horrible wild card presence.

The near great Cardinals franchise is second only to the New York Yankees in World Series crowns but the margin (Yankees 27, Cardinals 11) is not close.

The Cardinals have largely been one of baseball’s great franchises, and in its history, I believe only the eventual 1946 World Series winning Cardinals had ever won as many as 46 of their first 70 games of a season until this year’s version.

The Cardinals have a nice lead in the N.L. Central and if they maintain it and win the division, they will be one of 8 teams in the quarterfinal round of the playoffs, no matter how many games they win.

Bottom line is there is a long way to go, but so far so good for the Cardinals, which sadly means so much less than in seasons past, 1946 included.

1946 World Series Champion Cardinals: Whitey Kurowski, Enos Slaughter, Marty Marion and Stan Musial