1961 St. Louis Cardinals season
- 1961 St. Louis Cardinals season
MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = St. Louis Cardinals
season = 1961
misc =
current league = National League
y1 = 1892
Uniform 
ballpark = Busch Stadium I
y4 = 1920
city = St. Louis, Missouri
y5 = 1882
owners = August "Gussie" Busch
managers = Solly Hemus and Johnny Keane
television = KPLR
(Buddy Blattner, Jerry Gross, Joe Garagiola)
radio = KMOX
(Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Joe Garagiola)
espntn = stl
brtn = stlThe St. Louis Cardinals 1961 season was the team's 80th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 70th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 80-74 during the season and finished 5th in the National League. It was the last season before the NL went to a 162-game schedule the following season, via expansion.
First baseman Bill White and third baseman Ken Boyer won Gold Gloves this year.
With the Cardinals at 33-41, they fired manager Solly Hemus on Thursday, July 6, and replaced him with Johnny Keane, who went 47-33 from that point forward.
Offseason
*March 15, 1961: Red Schoendienst was signed as a Free Agent with the St. Louis Cardinals. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schoere01.shtml]
Regular season
tandings
Roster
Starting pitchers
External links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1961.shtml 1961 St. Louis Cardinals]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1961&t=SLN 1961 St. Louis Cardinals team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]
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