# What is the greatest St. Louis Cardinals team of all time?

> Eleven championship banners hang in St. Louis, and a few of the clubs that fell short won more games than the ones that raised them.

*By YPB Team · Published November 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-greatest-st-louis-cardinals-team-of-all-time*

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1. **1942 Cardinals** — score 1000/1000
   Won a franchise-record 106 games and beat the Yankees four games to one in the World Series.
2. **1926 Cardinals** — score 616/1000
   Player-manager Rogers Hornsby's 89–65 team won the franchise's first World Series, beating the Yankees in seven games.
3. **1967 Cardinals** — score 550/1000
   Went 101–60 with MVP Orlando Cepeda and beat Boston in seven as Bob Gibson won three complete games.
4. **1931 Cardinals** — score 550/1000
   Went 101–53 and beat the Philadelphia Athletics in a seven-game World Series sparked by Pepper Martin.
5. **1964 Cardinals** — score 498/1000
   Overtook the collapsing Phillies in the final days at 93–69, then beat the Yankees in seven as Ken Boyer won MVP.
6. **2011 Cardinals** — score 372/1000
   Erased a 10.5-game August deficit to take the wild card and won the World Series in seven after David Freese's Game 6 heroics.
7. **2013 Cardinals** — score 293/1000
   Went 97–65 with the NL's best record and lost the World Series to Boston in six.
8. **1982 Cardinals** — score 293/1000
   Whitey Herzog's speed-and-defense team went 92–70 and beat the Milwaukee Brewers in a seven-game World Series.
9. **2004 Cardinals** — score 293/1000
   Won 105 games with Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds before being swept by Boston in the World Series.
10. **2006 Cardinals** — score 293/1000
   Won the World Series over Detroit in five games after an 83–78 regular season.
11. **1944 Cardinals** — score 200/1000
   Went 105–49 with NL MVP Marty Marion and 22-game winner Mort Cooper, then beat the crosstown St. Louis Browns in six games in the all-St. Louis World Series.
12. **1946 Cardinals** — score 200/1000
   Won the NL's first tiebreaker playoff over Brooklyn and beat Boston in a World Series decided by Enos Slaughter's "Mad Dash".
13. **1934 Cardinals** — score 200/1000
   The "Gashouse Gang" went 95–58 behind Dizzy Dean's 30 wins and beat Detroit in a seven-game World Series.
14. **1968 Cardinals** — score 0/1000
   Bob Gibson posted a 1.12 ERA for a 97–65 pennant winner that lost the World Series to Detroit in seven.

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