The first formal logo associated with the Cardinals as a team was in 1900. The team, known then as the Brown Stockings (or Browns, for short), wore an interlocking “StL” on th… See more

It took until the Roaring Twenties for anyone creative enough to associate “Cardinals” with the birds. It’s easy to see this logo as a “first draft” for nearly every Cardinal lo… See more

The 1927 Cardinals logo evolved into a very literal, single bird perched on a bat. It’s all very monochrome and the bird is, decidedly, plump. In a wider view, this was the first (an… See more

In 1929, the Cardinals decided the bird looked lonely by itself on the bat and brought back the design from three years earlier. Radio helped the St. Louis Cardinals e… See more