The art on this 1955 Vintage St. Louis Cardinals T-Shirt has been custom produced by Vintage Brand. The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League Central division. The Cardinals play their home games at Busch Stadium. One of the nation's oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, more than any NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees. The team has won 19 National League pennants, third-most of any team. In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era's professional baseball championship tournament, a forerunner of the modern World Series. In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry. In 1892, the Browns – also called the Perfectos – joined the National League. In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals.