The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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. They are members of the Central Division

National League Central

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 in the National League

National League

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...

 of Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series

World Series

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 championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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, who have won twenty-seven. They have played in eighteen Fall Classics tying them with the Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

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 and Giants

San Francisco Giants

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 for most World Series appearances among National League clubs and second overall to the Yankees' 40 appearances.