World Series - Team Histories / All-Time Leaders

Here's a quick comparison of some of the All-Time leaders for both the Red Sox and Cardinals:

Batting Average: St. Louis has the edge with Rogers Hornsby's .359 career average (Ted Wiliams leads the Sox with a career .344)

Home Runs: Ted William's 521 rule over Stan Musial's 475 (Musial is the only Cardinal with more than 350 HR - the Red Sox have four players)

RBI: Stan the Man is the man here with his 1,951 RBI (Carl Yastrzemski leads the Sox with 1,844)

OBP: Ted Williams was ahead of his time with OBP - his .481 is way ahead of Mark McGwire's .427

Wins: Bob Gibson (251) and Jesse Haines (210) blow away Cy Young and Roger Clemens 192 wins each. (I had honestly never heard of Jesse Haines.)

ERA: John Tudor was a good player but his ERA doesn't come close to Smokey Joe Wood's 1.99 (Tudor is the All-Time Leader for the Cardinals with his 2.52 - which would have been good for a tie for 7th with Pedro Martinez with the Sox)

Complete Games: Cy Young's 275 will never be touched by a Sox player EVER and neither will the Cardinals record of 255 by Bob Gibson

Strike Outs: Bob Gibson has 3,117 for the Cardinals while Clemens had 2,590 for the Sox