List of St. Louis Cardinals in the Baseball Hall of Fame

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National Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum

Established	1936 (dedicated June 12, 1939)
Location	Cooperstown, New York
Coordinates	42°42′01″N 74°55′25″W / 42.700322°N 74.92369°W / 42.700322; -74.92369
Type	Professional sports hall of fame
Visitors	300,000/year (average as of 2013)[1]
Director	Jeff Idelson (since 2008)
Website	baseballhall.org

The St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League baseball (MLB) franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, have competed in the National League (NL) since 1892, and in the American Association (AA) from 1882 to 1891.^[a] They have won 11 World Series titles, one additional interleague championship and were co-champions (tied) in another prior to the modern World Series. Known as the Cardinals from 1900 to the present, the St. Louis franchise were also known as the Brown Stockings (1882), Browns (1883–98), and Perfectos (1899).^[2] A total of 37 players and other personnel associated with the Cardinals have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

The first former Cardinals players to be inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame were John McGraw and Cy Young in 1937, the second year of the Museum's annual balloting. Rogers Hornsby was the first to be inducted as Cardinal, which occurred in 1942. Of the 38 former Cardinals elected to the Hall of Fame, 17 have been inducted as Cardinals and nine with the Cardinals logo on their cap. The most recent individual associated with the Cardinals to be inducted is Lee Smith, inducted in 2019. The next former Cardinal to be inducted will be Ted Simmons in 2020; he is expected to be inducted as a Cardinal.

In addition, two separate awards – the Ford Frick Award and J. G. Taylor Spink Award – while not conferring the status of enshrining their recipients as members of the Hall of Fame, honor the works of a total of six sportswriters and broadcasters in connection with their coverage of the Cardinals.^[3][4] The Cardinals also have a franchise hall of fame known as the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum located within Ballpark Village adjacent to Busch Stadium, the Cardinals' home stadium.^[5]

St. Louis Cardinals players, managers, and executives[]

Table key

	Inducted as a Cardinal.[6] Names listed in bold are depicted on their Hall of Fame plaques wearing a Cardinals cap insignia.
Ω	Spent more years with the Cardinals than any other team, though not inducted as a Cardinal

Inductees

Member	Years as Cardinal	Role(s)	Year inducted	Method	Notable achievement(s) as a Cardinal	Ref(s)
Grover Cleveland Alexander[b]	1926–29	Player	1938	BBWAA	1926 World Series champion 55–38 W–L, 3.08 ERA	[7]
Walter Alston	1936	Manager	1983	VC		[8]
Jake Beckley[b]	1904–07	Player	1971	VC		[9]
Jim Bottomley[b]	1922–32	Player	1974	VC	1926 and 1931 World Series champion 1928 NL MVP .325 batting average (AVG), .537 slugging percentage (SLG) in 11 seasons	[10]
Roger Bresnahan[b]	1909–12	Player	1945	OTC	Player/manager, batted .275	[11]
Lou Brock	1964–79	Player	1985	BBWAA	1964 and 1967 World Series champion #2 MLB in stolen bases (938) 3,000 hit club	[12]
Mordecai Brown[b]	1903	Player	1949	OTC		[13]
Jesse Burkett[d]	1899–1901	Player	1946	OTC	.378 in three seasons (highest in franchise history) 1901 batting title (.376)	[14][15]
Steve Carlton	1965–71	Player	1994	BBWAA	1967 World Series champion 77–62 W–L, 3.10 ERA	[16]
Orlando Cepeda	1966–68	Player	1999	VC	1967 NL MVP and World Series winner	[17]
Charles Comiskey[b]	1882–89, 1891	Pion./Exec.	1939	OTC	1886 World Series champion Four AA pennants .673 win% (Highest for St. Louis managers)	[18][19]
Roger Connor[b]	1894–97	Player	1976	VC		[20]
Dizzy Dean	1930–37	Player	1953	BBWAA	1934 MVP and World Series winner 4x NL strikeout, 2x wins, 2x shutouts champion	[21]
Leo Durocher	1933–37	Manager	1994	VC		[22]
Dennis Eckersley	1996–97	Player	2004	BBWAA		[23]
Frankie Frisch[b]	1927–37	Player	1947	BBWAA	1931 and 1934 World Series champion 1931 MVP .312 average as Cardinal player/manager	[24][25]
Pud Galvin[b]	1875, 1892	Player	1965	VC		[26]
Bob Gibson	1959–75	Player	1981	BBWAA	1964 and 1967 World Series champion 1968 and 1970 Cy Young Award winner 1.12 ERA (modern record) and MVP in 1968 18 Cardinals career pitching records	[27][28]
Burleigh Grimes	1930–34	Player	1964	VC		[29]
Chick Hafey[b]	1924–31	Player	1971	VC	.326 AVG, .568 SLG in eight seasons	[30]
Jesse Haines[b]	1920–37	Player	1970	VC	1926, 1931 and 1934 World Series champion Second in wins (210), IP (3203.2), and 5th in ShO (23) in franchise history	[28][31]
Whitey Herzog	1980, 1981–90	Manager	2010	VC	1982 World Series champion and three NL pennants 822 wins (Third in franchise history) .530 winning percentage 1985 NL Manager of the Year	[19][32]
Rogers Hornsby[b]	1915–26, 1933	Player	1942	BBWAA	1926 World Series champion Two batting Triple Crowns Six consecutive batting titles 3× .400 batting average Second-highest career MLB batting average (.358)	[33]
Miller Huggins	1910–17	Manager	1964	VC	.402 on-base percentage Player/manager	[34][35]
Tony La RussaΩ	1996–2011	Manager	2014	VC	2006 and 2011 World Series champion Three NL pennants 1408 wins (Most in franchise history) 2002 NL Manager of the Year	[19][36]
Rabbit Maranville	1927–28	Player	1954	BBWAA		[37]
Bill McKechnie	1928–29	Manager	1962	VC	1928 NL pennant	[38]
John McGraw	1900	Manager	1937	VC	.344 AVG, .505 OBP in 1900	[39]
Joe Medwick[b]	1932–40 1947–48	Player	1968	BBWAA	1937 NL Triple Crown and MVP .335 batting average (Fifth in franchise history) in 11 seasons	[15][40]
Johnny Mize[b]	1936–41	Player	1981	VC	1939 NL batting title (.349) 1.018 OPS in six seasons (Third in franchise history)	[15][41]
Stan Musial	1941–63	Player	1969	BBWAA	1942, 1944 and 1946 World Series champion Three MVPs, seven batting titles 3,000 hit club More than 20 Cardinals career batting records	[15][42]
Kid Nichols[b]	1904–05	Player	1949	OTC	Player/manager 2.02 ERA, 21 W, 317 IP in 1904	[43][44]
Branch RickeyΩ	1919–42	Pion./Exec	1967	VC	Founded minor league farm system in use today	[45][46]
Wilbert Robinson[b]	1900	Manager	1946	OTC		[47]
Red Schoendienst	1945–56 1961–63	Player	1989	VC	1946, 1964, 1967, 1982 World Series champion 9x All-Star .289 batting average, 1980 hits 1,041 wins as manager (Second in franchise history)	[19][48][49]
Ted Simmons	1968–80	Player	2020	VC	6x All-Star	[50]
Enos Slaughter	1938–53	Player	1985	VC	1942 and 1946 World Series champion .305 batting average, .847 OPS 10× All-Star 135 triples, 146 home runs	[51]
Lee Smith	1990–93	Player	2019	VC	3x All-Star 2x Rolaids Relief Man Award 2x NL saves leader	[52]
Ozzie Smith	1982–96	Player	2002	BBWAA	1982 World Series champion 11× Gold Glove winner 14× All-Star 1985 NLCS MVP	[53]
John Smoltz	2009	Player	2015	BBWAA		[54]
Billy Southworth	1926–29 1940–45	Manager	2008	VC	1926, 1942 and 1944 World Series champion Three NL pennants as manager .642 W–L% (Second in franchise history)	[19][55][56]
Bruce Sutter	1981–84	Player	2006	BBWAA	1982 World Series champion 3× NL saves leader, 127 saves, 2.72 ERA	[57]
Joe Torre	1969–74 1990–95	Manager	2014	VC	1971 MVP and batting champion (.363) .498 winning percentage as manager	[58][59]
Dazzy Vance	1933, 1934	Player	1955	BBWAA		[60]
Larry Walker	2004, 2005	Player	2020	BBWAA		[61]
Bobby Wallace[d]	1899–1901, 1917–18	Player	1953	VC		[60]
Hoyt Wilhelm	1957	Player	1985	BBWAA		[62]
Vic Willis[d]	1910	Player	1995	VC		[63]
Cy Young	1899–1900	Player	1937	BBWAA	45–35, 2.78 ERA, 690.1 IP, 137 ERA+	[64]

Broadcasters and sportswriters[]

• Bob Uecker, a Ford C. Frick Award winner, also played for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Artifacts[]

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has collected artifacts related to notable achievements of Cardinals players, including:

• Chick Hafey's glove, spikes and glasses.^[71]
• The glove Taylor Douthit wore when setting the Major League record for outfield putouts in 1928.^[71]
• Stirrups Dizzy Dean wore^[71]
• Switch hitter Frankie Frisch's bat.^[71]
• A jersey of Joe Medwick's, circa 1937.^[71]
• The Most Valuable Player Award trophy presented to Stan Musial in 1946.^[71]
• The spikes Lou Brock wore when he stole his 893rd base in a game against the San Diego Padres, on August 29, 1977, breaking Ty Cobb's record.^[71]

See also[]

• List of Los Angeles Dodgers in the Baseball Hall of Fame
• List of New York Yankees in the Baseball Hall of Fame

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