Cardinal License Plate Views
St. Louis Cardinals license plates are personalized plates that may be six (6) characters in length. If a license plate is requested which includes a space, hyphen (-), or apostrophe ('), the letters and/or numbers shall then be restricted to no more than five (5) characters, excluding the space, hyphen or apostrophe. St. Louis Cardinals license plates are available ONLY for registered Missouri vehicles for an annual contribution of $35.
This page, and my cardinal license plate collection, are both dedicated to my wife, Debbie. She was born and raised in southern Illinois, where the state bird is the cardinal, and she's a life-long St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. The cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina, our present state of residence.
Ball State University is located in Muncie, Indiana, and its sports teams are called the Cardinals. The Ball State license plate is available for a $40 annual fee only to those Indiana motorists who are members of the Ball State Alumni Association. $25 of the fee goes to the Association for funding scholarships, among other things. This plate continues to be available today.
West Virginia has the dubious distinction of being the only state whose state bird is the cardinal, but which hasn't issued some kind of cardinal license plate. For some mysterious reason, they chose to put an image of a rose-breasted grosbeak (a mostly black and white bird, with a red neck) on their wildlife plate.