Talk:List of St. Louis Cardinals seasons

Incorrect dashes
Since this is a featured list, it should conform with the manual of style; would regular editors here mind running through it and correcting the hyphens that should be endashes per WP:DASH? Thanks Sandy Georgia (Talk) 13:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and corrected the hyphens to endashes, but I may have missed some. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 14:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Links in the lead
Per WP:LEAD, I am removing the links from the bold lead line at the beginning of the article. These words will be relinked at their first occurrence. Killervogel5 (talk) 14:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

February 2022 edits
In my edits to this page on 22 Feb. 2022, I note in my edit summaries that they undo a few unexplained edits made in Nov. 2017. One of my edits adds 1 win and 3 losses to the post-season record. Presumably the editor in 2017 missed the 2015 series results when figuring these numbers. I am fairly confident that the post-season totals are now correct and agree with the sum of data from the main table in this article.

My other edit adds 1 win from the regular season in the 1890s (as the St. Louis Browns). I am not as confident in this one. The main table and the summary table are now consistent with each other (and with the other Wikipedia articles on the 1890-1899 seasons), but the summary table is now out of sync with Baseball-reference.com, one of the reliable sources used for this article. It appears that the 1890 season has either 77 or 78 wins for St. Louis, depending on whether you look at an archived or current version. Furthermore, the current version of baseball-reference.com shows 77 wins at the top, but 78 wins later in two places. It's puzzling to me. ---Spiffy sperry (talk) 21:57, 22 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I asked baseball-reference.com about the discrepancy. In their response, they state that the official record of 78-58 is an error due to a rained out game being made up twice (through a series of odd events by today's standards), and won by St. Louis both times.  According to baseball-reference.com, 77-58 is considered the true record.
 * (Series of events: The July 26 game at Brooklyn was rained out. The first make-up game on Aug. 11 at St. Louis was won by St. Louis, 15-9. However, the teams did not have the requisite consent of the other teams in the league to play this game.  The Brooklyn team folded around Aug. 26 and was replaced by Baltimore.  The league forced another make-up game at Baltimore, which was played on Aug. 29 and won by St. Louis, 6-2.)
 * The 78-58 record appears in multiple Wikipedia articles and templates. As 78-58 is the "official" record, I don't think it should be changed in each article/template.  Furthermore, it appears that although baseball-reference.com discounts one of St. Louis' wins, they don't do the same for either of the losing teams, resulting in an imbalanced overall win-loss record using their perspective.  I think the best course of action is to keep it at 78-58 in this article, and include a note (visible or hidden) describing the discrepancy in the rows for 1890, the 1890's decade, and the overall totals.  --Spiffy sperry (talk) 21:10, 24 February 2022 (UTC)