Watch Out Cubs! Here Come The Cardinals

"The rivalry between the Cubs and Cardinals is probably the oldest and best in baseball, no matter how the Red Sox and Yankees spit and spite at each other. That's a tabloid-fueled soap opera about money and ego and sound bites. That's a pair of bratty high-priced supermodels trying to trip each other in their stilettos on the runway. The Cards-Cubs epic is about roots and geography and territorial rights. It's entwined in the Midwestern blood and therefore refreshing and honest and even heroic."

-Buzz Bissinger, from 3 Nights in August

The Cubs-Cardinals rivalry is one of the most intense in baseball, dating back to when players traveled by train and these tw...

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