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• The St. Louis Cardinals were the only team in baseball to win three pennants in the 1980's and have won more World Series championships (9) than any other National League team. St. Louis is known as a savvy baseball town so much so that in 2000 Sports Illustrated called it "America's best baseball city" and in 1998 Baseball America magazine also named St. Louis as America's Best Baseball City.

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• One of baseball's all-time greats, Hall of Famer Stan "The Man" Musial, played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals. Musial, who still lives and works in St. Louis, has a career batting average of .331, a career total of 3,630 hits, was named National League Most Valuable Player three times and played in the All-Star Game 19 times. Musial was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
• In 1904, St. Louis was the site of the third Olympic games of modern times and the first ever held in the United States. During the games, runner George Coleman Poage was the first African-American to appear in Olympic competition. The 1904 Olympics were held on the campus of Washington University, which also hosted the first-ever U.S. National Senior Olympics in 1987.