U.S.A where the MLB and base ball were created-No.6

Masakazu Kimura

 

              Have you ever heard the place name St. Louis ? I think only few of you guys heard this name. St. Louis is the city in Missouri State, U.S. and although the place is not that famous, this city has baseball team in MLB. The name of this team is St. Louis Cardinals.

 

 

 

 



            This team is a member of the Central Division in the National League of MLB. This team changed its name several times before. At first, the name of this team was “St. Louis Brown Stockings” in 1882. When you hear the name of this team, you might laugh but at that time, there were several teams that has “stocking” in their team name like for example, Boston Red Sox used to be Red Stockings. In 1892, this team joined MLB and changed its name to “Perfectors” but in 1990, this team changed its name again to “Cardinals”. Cardinals won 11 World Series which is the championship of MLB and also this team produced a lot of superstars like Stan Musial, Bob Gibson etc. This team is well known to MLB fans and I should had known this team well but actually, I didn’t really know about this team and I learned a lot when I searched this team. Then why did I choose this team? When I first heard “Cardinals”, I imagined one team in NFL (National Football League). There is one football team which has same name as St. Louis Cardinals in Arizona State. That is Arizona Cardinals.

 

The symbols of both teams are bird which has “Cardinal” as a name and both look similar. However, team Cardinals of MLB is located in St. Louis and Cardinals of NFL is located in Arizona. It was interested for me that both teams have same name and symbol, but locating in different places.

              Let’s move on to area study of St. Louis.

 

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of State Missouri. This city is the second biggest city in Missouri State. The population of this city expanded after American Civil War and the city itself became the fourth largest city in U.S. in the late 19^th century. However, city’s population peaked in 1950 and it began to decline that continue in the 21th century. The economy of St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Several popular corporations like Express Scripts, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Graybar electric were born in this city St. Louis. In addition, St. Louis has three professional sports teams; St. Louis Cardinals (MLB), St. Louis Blues (NHL) and St. Louis Rams (NFL). U.S. has huge land and there are many places which are not that popular to foreign people. When people hear that place, they might consider those places have no popular thing, but actually most of city in each state has something important thing. I didn’t know about St. Louis well, but because I had opportunity to open up the web site of St. Louis, I discovered new facts. Thus, what I wanted to say is don’t think it is not important place by just hearing new places. If you search carefully, you will find some important thing of that place.