on december 4, 2006, at the major league baseball winter meetings, mlb announced that an exhibition game to be called the civil rights game would be held at autozone park, with the first game on march 31, 2007. the game featured the cardinals and the cleveland indians, with the cardinals winning 5-1. the second game was played on march 29, 2008, between the chicago white sox and the new york mets. the mets defeated the white sox 3-2.