Order by the year each player joined the St. Louis Cardinals. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
The cards are St. Louis Cardinals players, and you sort them by the year each one joined the club. One player begins on the line with his year shown. Each new card offers a name and a position such as second baseman or relief pitcher, and you pick a gap. A good placement turns up the year; a wrong gap still moves him to his true spot and costs one of three lives.
Before they were the Cardinals, this club played in the old American Association, and the oldest cards in the deck come from that era. After that, the deck spreads across the whole history without one era taking over, which makes the long middle difficult. Relief pitchers are a sizable group. Watch for stars who broke in with the Cardinals young, because they joined earlier than you'd think.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.