St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum

St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and
Museum

Established	2014
Location	St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°37′30″N 90°11′37″W / 38.6251°N 90.1935°W
Type	Professional sports hall of fame
Visitors	n/a
Website	St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame

The St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum is a team hall of fame located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, representing the history, players and personnel of the professional baseball franchise St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). It is housed within Ballpark Village, a mixed-use development and adjunct of Busch Stadium, the home stadium of the Cardinals. 34 members have been enshrined within the Cardinals Hall of Fame.

History

The St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum was originally located in downtown St. Louis in the same building as the International Bowling Museum and the World Bowling Writers (WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame, near the site of the old Busch Stadium and the new Busch Stadium. The International Bowling Museum closed its St. Louis site in November 2008 and moved to Arlington, Texas.^[1]

The Cardinals Hall of Fame likewise closed when the Bowling Museum moved and suspended public operations.^[2] However, the museum staff designed a new hall of fame and museum. The Cardinals moved the museum to the St. Louis Ballpark Village, which is located across Clark Street from Busch Stadium and opened in 2014. The new facility was constructed within the Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum and Cardinal Nation Restaurant in Ballpark Village.^[3]

Voting criteria and process

The Inaugural HOF Induction, 2014.

In January, 2014, Cardinals chairman and chief executive officer William DeWitt, Jr., announced a plan for a formal, annual, Cardinals Hall of Fame induction process. Included components of the voting and induction process are a "Red Ribbon" committee of baseball experts, a six-week fan voting process in the spring, and an enshrinement ceremony in the summer. All former Cardinals already enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York and those honored with their number retired were automatically enshrined into the inaugural class of the Cardinals Hall of Fame on August 16, 2014.^[4]

To be eligible for the Cardinals Hall of Fame, a player must have played three seasons for the Cardinals and have been retired from Major League Baseball for at least three years. Players are divided into two categories, "modern players" and "veteran players." Players who have been retired 40 or more years are classified as veteran players. Each year, a Red Ribbon committee selects one veteran player to be inducted and nominates another 6 to 10 players for whom the fans vote. The vote is then accomplished on the Cardinals official MLB.com website. The two players with the highest online vote total are inducted. Additionally, the team may opt to elect personnel who fulfilled other roles besides playing, such as a coach, broadcaster or front office personnel. The team creates a plaque for each elected member of the Hall. The plaques are created by the same company who creates the plaques for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. 26 total members were inducted for the first class of 2014.^[4][5]

Cardinals Hall of Fame inductees

Name	Years with Cardinals Franchise	Position(s)	Year Elected	Committee Selection
Jim Bottomley	1922-1932	1B	2014	Inaugural
Ken Boyer	1955-1965, 1971-172, 1978-1980	3B, SS, OF, Manager, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Sam Breadon	1917-1947	Owner	2016	Team
Lou Brock	1964-1979	OF	2014	Inaugural
Jack Buck	1954-1959, 1961-2001	Broadcaster	2014	Inaugural
August A. Busch, Jr.	1953-1989	Owner	2014	Inaugural
Chris Carpenter	2004-2012	Pitcher	2016	Fan
Dizzy Dean	1930, 1932-1937, 1941-1946	Pitcher, Broadcaster	2014	Inaugural
Jim Edmonds	2000-2007	OF	2014	Fan
Curt Flood	1958-1969	OF	2015	Red Ribbon
Bob Forsch	1974-1988	Pitcher	2015	Fan
Frankie Frisch	1927-1938	2B, 3B, SS, Manager	2014	Inaugural
Bob Gibson	1959-1975, 1995	Pitcher, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Chick Hafey	1924-1931	OF	2014	Inaugural
Jesse Haines	1920-1937	Pitcher	2014	Inaugural
Whitey Herzog	1980-1990	Manager, General Manager	2014	Inaugural
Rogers Hornsby	1915-1926, 1933	2B, 3B, 1B, SS, OF, Manager	2014	Inaugural
George Kissell	1940-1942, 1946-2008	Coach, Instructor, Scout	2015	Team
Tony LaRussa	1996-2011	Manager	2014	Inaugural
Marty Marion	1940-1951	SS, Manager	2014	Red Ribbon
Willie McGee	1982-1990, 1996-1999	OF	2014	Fan
Joe Medwick	1932-1940, 1947-1948	OF	2014	Inaugural
Johnny Mize	1936-1941	1B	2014	Inaugural
Terry Moore	1935-1942, 1946-1952, 1956-1958	OF, Coach	2016	Red Ribbon
Stan Musial	1941-1944, 1946-1963, 1967	OF, 1B, General Manager	2014	Inaugural
Branch Rickey	1919-1942	General Manager, Manager, President	2014	Inaugural
Red Schoendienst	1945-1956, 1961-1976, 1979-1995	Manager, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Mike Shannon	1962-1970, 1972-Present	Broadcaster, 3B, OF, C	2014	Team
Ted Simmons	1968-1980	C, 1B, 3B, OF	2015	Fan
Enos Slaughter	1938-1942, 1946-1953	OF	2014	Inaugural
Ozzie Smith	1982-1999	SS, Broadcaster	2014	Inaugural
Billy Southworth	1926-1927, 1929, 1940-1945	Manager, OF	2014	Inaugural
Bruce Sutter	1981-1984	Pitcher	2014	Inaugural
Joe Torre	1969-1974, 1990-1995	3B, 1B, C, Manager	2016	Fan

Selected artifacts

The Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum contains over 15,000 total artifacts and 80,000 photographs, second only to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the largest collection of baseball antiquities. The sections of the Museum include: the Plaque Gallery, a Sportsman's Park Room, a Busch II Room, a Busch III Room, a Championship Gallery, a Uniform Timeline, a Look at the Current Cardinals, a St. Louis Browns Display, a St. Louis Stars Display, and a Temporary Exhibit Room that has included displays on Stan Musial and a history of the Cardinals Farm System.

Championship memorabilia

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• A baseball autographed by the 1926 World Series-winning team, including an autograph from Babe Ruth, playing for the opponent the New York Yankees.
• A 1931 World Series championship ring in its original green case that was awarded to Sparky Adams
• A program from the first and only all-St. Louis World Series, played in 1944 against the Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles)
• The original Commissioner's Trophy awarded to the 1967 championship team, when the Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox

See also

• List of St. Louis Cardinals in the Baseball Hall of Fame
• St. Louis Cardinals award winners and league leaders
• List of St. Louis Cardinals team records
• History of the St. Louis Cardinals: 1875–1919 • 1920–52 • 1953–89 • 1990–present
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

References

1. "International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame". Retrieved October 30, 2010. The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame was located at 11 Stadium Plaza, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, until November 8, 2008. It moved to Texas and opened in early 2010.
2. "St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum". St. Louis Cardinals official website. MLB.com Advanced Media, L.P. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
3. "Busch Stadium Ballpark Village Information". stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
4. Cardinals Press Release (January 18, 2014). "Cardinals establish Hall of Fame & detail induction process". www.stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
5. Langosch, Jenifer (April 30, 2014). "McGee among four to enter Cards Hall of Fame". MLB.com. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
6. "Championships slide". www.stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. Retrieved January 31, 2014.

External links

• St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame webpage