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 / 38.6251; -90.1935
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. To date, 47 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 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 an annual formal 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 a fan 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 and displays a plaque for each elected member of the Hall. The plaques are created by the same company that creates the plaques for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Each inductee is also provided with a red jacket that is to be worn at all official team ceremonies and functions. A total of 26 members were inducted for the first class of 2014.^[4][5]

Cardinals Hall of Fame inductees[]

Key

Bold	Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
	Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Cardinal
Bold	Recipient of the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award

Positions that are listed were played the equivalent of a full season for the Cardinals.

Name	Years with Cardinals Franchise	Position(s)	Year Elected	Committee Selection
Jim Bottomley	1922-1932	1B	2014	Inaugural
Ken Boyer	1955-1965, 1971-1972, 1978-1980	3B, CF, Manager, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Sam Breadon	1917-1947	Owner	2016	Team
Harry Brecheen	1940, 1943-1952	Pitcher	2018	Red Ribbon
Lou Brock	1964-1979	LF	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
Vince Coleman	1985-1990	LF	2018	Fan
Mort Cooper	1938-1945	Pitcher	2019	Red Ribbon
Dizzy Dean	1930, 1932-1937, 1941-1946	Pitcher, Broadcaster	2014	Inaugural
Jim Edmonds	2000-2007, 2016-Present	CF, Broadcaster	2014	Fan
Curt Flood	1958-1969	CF	2015	Red Ribbon
Bob Forsch	1974-1988	Pitcher	2015	Fan
Frankie Frisch	1927-1938	2B, 3B, Manager	2014	Inaugural
Bob Gibson	1959-1975, 1995	Pitcher, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Chick Hafey	1924-1931	LF, RF	2014	Inaugural
Jesse Haines	1920-1937	Pitcher	2014	Inaugural
Keith Hernandez	1974-1983	1B	2021	Fan
Tom Herr	1979-1988	2B	2020	Fan
Whitey Herzog	1980-1990	Manager, General Manager	2014	Inaugural
Rogers Hornsby	1915-1926, 1933	2B, 3B, SS, Manager	2014	Inaugural
Jason Isringhausen	2002-2008	Pitcher	2019	Fan
George Kissell	1940-1942, 1946-2008	Coach, Instructor, Scout	2015	Team
Ray Lankford	1990-2001, 2004	CF, LF	2018	Fan
Tony LaRussa	1996-2011	Manager	2014	Inaugural
Marty Marion	1940-1951	SS, Manager, Coach	2014	Red Ribbon
Pepper Martin	1928, 1930-1940, 1944	3B, CF, RF	2017	Red Ribbon
Tim McCarver	1959-1969, 1973-1974, 2014-2019	C, Broadcaster	2017	Fan
Willie McGee	1982-1990, 1996-1999, 2018-Present	CF, LF, RF, Coach	2014	Fan
Mark McGwire	1997-2001, 2010-2012	1B, Coach	2017	Fan
Joe Medwick	1932-1940, 1947-1948	LF	2014	Inaugural
Johnny Mize	1936-1941	1B	2014	Inaugural
Terry Moore	1935-1942, 1946-1952, 1956-1958	CF, Coach	2016	Red Ribbon
Stan Musial	1941-1944, 1946-1963, 1967	1B, LF, RF, CF, General Manager	2014	Inaugural
Branch Rickey	1919-1942	General Manager, Manager, President	2014	Inaugural
Scott Rolen	2002-2007	3B	2019	Fan
Red Schoendienst	1945-1956, 1961-1976, 1979-1995	Manager, 2B, LF, Coach	2014	Inaugural
Mike Shannon	1962-1970, 1972–2022	Broadcaster, 3B, RF	2014	Team
Ted Simmons	1968-1980	C	2015	Fan
Enos Slaughter	1938-1942, 1946-1953	RF, LF	2014	Inaugural
Ozzie Smith	1982-1999	SS, Broadcaster	2014	Inaugural
Billy Southworth	1926-1927, 1929, 1940-1945	Manager, RF	2014	Inaugural
Bruce Sutter	1981-1984	Pitcher	2014	Inaugural
Joe Torre	1969-1974, 1990-1995	3B, 1B, C, Manager	2016	Fan
John Tudor	1985-1988, 1990	Pitcher	2020	Fan
Bill White	1959-1965, 1969	1B, LF	2020	Red Ribbon

Players who have been nominated, but not inducted, include Steve Carlton, Matt Morris, Edgar Renteria, and Lee Smith.^[6]

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 museum includes a variety of displays and features on the Cardinals' former ballparks, the old St. Louis Browns and Negro League St. Louis Stars, championship teams, uniform history, and current players. Patrons can take part in interactive displays such as recording a broadcast call of a classic Cardinals play, or holding a bat used in a game by a Cardinals star of the past. It also features a special exhibit area that hosts a new display each season: these collections have included media related to the history of the Cardinal farm system, the life and career of Stan Musial, the team's radio partnership with KMOX, and the 2011 World Series team. On home game weekends, the Museum has additional programming such as autograph sessions, panel discussions with former players or staffers, and special presentations of unique memorabilia from their archives.

Championship memorabilia^[7]

• 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 § St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame
• 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
• Monument Park (Yankee Stadium) for a similar dedication by the New York Yankees to honor its achieved players.

References[]

External links[]

• St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame webpage