Sporting News magazine has taken on the task of ranking cities based on sporting success.
Sporting News magazine has unveiled their “Best Sports City: 2010” – Chicago. In the process, they also ranked 401 other locales based on an undisclosed formula that looks “…at the 12 months from summer 2009 to summer 2010, based on point values assigned to various categories, including but not limited to won-lost records, postseason appearances, applicable power ratings, number of teams and attendance.”
Following are the rankings of St. Louis and the Cardinals minor league affiliate towns. Johnson City made an especially strong showing at #157. Even in the case of financially-challenged Batavia, at least four other New York-Penn League towns follow them on the list.
26. St. Louis
47. Memphis
142. Springfield, MO
157. Johnson City, TN
261. Jupiter, FL
264. Quad Cities
380. Batavia, NY
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If St. Louis had an NBA team it would probably be ranked higher. Just a guess.
St. louis is known as a great baseball town. Sports town? Not so much I guess. But 26 isn’t bad. I’m not sure what one year of data is supposed to reveal though. It was a year when the Rams were the worst in football and the Blues continued to underwhelm while playing some painfully boring hockey. There are no major college sports, no NBA, and not much interest in any minor sports.
At least we don’t rate last among NL Central cities, coming in a few spots above Milwaukee.
The Cards are developing some promising Latin players at low US rungs on the ladder. I noticed 12 names at Gulf Coast, Johnson City, Batavia, and Quad Cities.
There are 6 pitchers (Bryan Martinez, Pasen, Santana, Corpas, DeJesus, Avendano), 3 OFs (Taveras, Rosario, and Reyes), 2 catchers (Castillo, Perez), and 1 3B (De la cruz).
10 are from the Dominican Republic, the talent pool from which we best recruit.
2 were signed in 2006, 4 were signed in 2007, another 4 in 2008, and 2 in 2009.