Wildwood's Freese MVP, Cardinals' Parade Sunday

When St. Louis Cardinals' third baseman David Freese graduated Lafayette High School, do you think he dreamed he'd be driving a World Series corvette some day?

St. Louis Cardinals beat Texas Rangers 6-2 Friday in Game 7 of the World Series to become 2011 champs for the 11th time.

The Cardinals Victory Parade starts at 4 p.m. at 18th St. and Market in downtown St. Louis, moving down Market Street to 7th St. South to Stan Musial Drive to Busch Stadium. In four trucks will be Cardinals players, Fredbird, Team Fredbird, Rally Squirrel and the marching bands of Lindbergh, Pattonville, Seckman and Belleville high schools.

There is also a celebration at 2 p.m. Sunday sponsored by Budweiser at the stadium with $5 tickets going on sale 2 p.m. Saturday; two tickets per sale. Cardinals season ticket holders may buy four tickets per sale starting two hours earlier.

Cardinals won four games to Rangers' three games for the Series. Cardinals lost Game 2 at home, then lost games 4 and 5 in Arlington, TX.

Cardinals won the bookend games 1 and 7 at home, then Game 3 in Texas, and Game 6 at home in 11 innings.

Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa took the team to a World Series win in 2006 and now five years later in 2011.

August 25, the Cardinals were 10.5 games behind first in the National League rankings, with Atlanta Braves eventually falling behind, and Cardinals beating Philadelphia to take the NLDS and Milwaukee Brewers for the NLCS, to face the American League champs in the World Series.

The Cardinals ran rough over the Rangers in Game 3 with a score of 16-7. But Game 6 was the heartbreaker for Texas when not once, but twice, the Rangers were within one strike of becoming World Series champs. But not once, but twice, the Cardinals came back in win by one run 10-9 in a walk-off home run by World Series MVP (most valuable player) David Freese.

Freese, 27, is a graduate of in Wildwood. He won a black Corvette car as the Series MVP.

Games 6 and 7 were postponed by a day due to rainy weather.

World Series games win-loss:

• Game 1   2-3 STL   Oct. 19
• Game 2   2-1 TX            20
• Game3  16-7 STL   Oct. 22; Away
• Game 4   4-0 TX           23; Away
• Game 5   4-2 TX           24; Away  
• Game 6 10-9 STL   Oct. 26
• Game 7   6-2 STL   Oct. 27

St. Louis WeatherBird tweeted that Metro will offer extra trains Sunday for the parade and celebration.