World Series Factoids

Here may be a few little known facts about the Cardinals in the World Series...

Two former Tigers played significant roles in helping the Cardinals win the World Series - Juan Encarnacion and Jeff Weaver...

And how many of you thought that Juan Encarnacion would have two World Series rings? One with the Cardinals this year, and one with the Marlins in 2003...

Speaking of two World Series rings for whoda thunk players - Scott Spezio and David Eckstein. And is Eckstein the smallest series MVP ever?

Scott Rolen finished the playoffs with a 10 game hitting streak...

The Cardinals had 83 wins in the regular season - the lowest for any World Series champion...

The World Series was won in the first year of New Busch Stadium...

Tony LaRussa went 17 years between World Series titles, only Connie Mack had a longer time span (23 years). LaRussa is also the second manager to win a series in both the AL and NL (Sparky Anderson).

Not a Cardinal fact, but how many people remember the press conference that Ivan Rodriguez had when he signed with Detroit? I do, it was right after they lost 120 games and he said that Detroit would be a World Series team in three years. He was laughed at.