| style=";" | | Cardinals, 7–2 | Cardinals, 6–4 | Last year of 19 division games. | |- | | | | | | Includes a two-game series in London, counted as home games for St. Louis | |- |- | Regular Season | style=";" | Cubs | style=";" | 1259–1209–19 | Cardinals, 666–559–11 | Cubs, 700–543–8 | |- | Postseason games | style=";" | Cubs | style=";" | 3–1 | Tie, 1–1 | Cubs, 2–0 | |- | Postseason Series | style=";" | Cubs | style=";" | 1–0 | | | |- | Regular and postseason | style=";" | Cubs | style=";" | 1262–1210–19 | Cardinals, 667–560–11 | Cubs, 702–543–8 | |- Territorial rights In his book Three Nights in August, Buzz Bissinger compared the Cardinals–Cubs rivalry to another famous rivalry in MLB: "The Red Sox and Yankees is a tabloid-filled soap opera about money and ego and sound bites. But the Cubs and Cardinals are about... geography and territorial rights." One of the "territories" in question is central Illinois, which receives both radio broadcasts of Cardinals games on KMOX, while WGN radio & WGN television, (including WGN-TV's superstation) formerly broadcast Cubs games, with the Cubs' radio rights moving to WBBM in 2015, then WSCR in 2016. All four radio stations are traditional "clear channel" AM radio stations, and both teams fought for fans in the Western states prior to Major League expansion. Prior to Major League expansion, the Cardinals traditionally claimed huge parts of the Lower Midwest and the South in their territory, while the Cubs claimed the Upper Midwest, even after the Braves, then the Brewers, were placed in Milwaukee, and the Twins in Minnesota, as those teams then played in the American League. Loyalties to the two teams divided friends, families, and co-workers, and shaped the locals in various ways, as George Will noted in a 1998 commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis: "I grew up in Champaign, Illinois, midway between Chicago and St. Louis. At an age too tender for life-shaping decisions, I made one. While all my friends were becoming Cardinals fans, I became a Cub fan. My friends, happily rooting for Stan Musial, Red Schoendienst, and other great Redbirds, grew up cheerfully convinced that the world is a benign place, so of course, they became liberals. Rooting for the Cubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I became gloomy, pessimistic,