It's the birthday of T.S. Eliot, born in St. Louis, Missouri (1888).
He must have been a Cardinals Fan!!! At least his parents must have been, so he probably was until he moved to the UK at the age of 26, and maybe longer. Most ex-pat St.Louisans retain their baseball affiliation until their deathbeads, case in point myself & my brother (despite his gaining a brother-in-law some years ago that works for the Padres & can get him field seat any time he asks). Anyway, I did some checking on Wiki. In the year of his birth the franchise, then called the Brown Stockings, won their 4th straight American Association championship.
Spoiler alert: diverging into baseball history for a bit...continued on the Sports Thread