Best of Seasons: The 1944 St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns
by Bill Borst
Category: Sports & Recreation

The 1944 baseball season was special to fans in St. Louis--the first and only time that the city's two major league teams made it to the World Series.Day by day, the 1944 season of both the Browns and Cardinals is chronicled. The Red Birds, with such stars as Stan Musial and Mort Cooper, jumped out to an early lead in the National League and were never headed. The Brownies had to fight; their team of aging has-beens, 4-F's, and notorious characters finally wrested the flag from the Yankees on the final weekend of the season. Against the backdrop of World War II, the achievements of the two teams galvanized St. Louis like no other event in the city's history.