12 Reasons To Love The St. Louis Cardinals

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HITTING MACHINE ROGERS HORNSBY IS BEST WITH A BAT Baseball fans in the early 1920s would probably finish well ahead of the pack did not have to wonder who was going to lead the National League NL in hitting They knew St Louis Cardinals slugger Rogers Hornsby The Texas native posted the highest batting average in the league every season from 1920 to 1925 But he was not just a singles hitter He paced the NL in doubles four times averaging 42 per year He twice led the league in home runs And he Rogers Hornsby swings at a pitch in 1917 had the most runs batted in RBIs four times His 424 batting average in 1924 still ranks as the second best for one season in Major League Baseball MLB Hornsby was also part of the Cardinals first World Series win They beat the New York Yankees in