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Born Louis Clark Brock, June 18, 1939 in El Dorado, Arkansas;
Education: Attended Southern University.

Career

Signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1961; Traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964, played until 1979.

Life's Work

In 1964, a promising young outfielder named Lou Brock was traded from the Chicago Cubs to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ernie Broglio. The trade became known as one of the most lopsided deals in baseball history, although few people could have predicted that outcome. At the time of the trade, Brock's best season at the plate had been an ordinary .263 and he was having trouble defensively, while Broglio had won 18 games twice in his career. Following the trade, Broglio would go on to win only seven more games and retire from baseball after three years, while Brock would lead the Cardinals to two world championships, become baseball's all-time stolen base leader, and be elected to the Hall of Fame.

Lou Brock was born on June 18, 1939, in El Dorado, Arkansas. Few people who knew him as a youngster would have guessed that he would go on to play 19 major-league seasons, steal 938 bases, and lead the National League in steals eight times. Of all of his playmates, Brock was the smallest and shyest and he did not begin playing baseball until he was 13. His interest in the game began after he wrote a school report about great baseball players such as Jackie Robinson and Joe DiMaggio. Brock attended Union High School in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, where he and his future wife Katie led their class academically and represented the school in state math and science competitions. He also joined the baseball team as a left- handed pitcher. Lou and Katie graduated from high school and attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Brock majored in math and played baseball, eventually switching positions from pitcher to outfielder. He had improved so much at his new position that he began to attract the interest of several major league clubs. After an impressive showing at the Pan American Games in 1959, the Chicago Cubs invited Brock to try out for the team.

In 1961, Brock signed with the Cubs for a $30,000 bonus. He did not want to leave Southern after three years, but he could not afford to turn down the Cubs' offer. Brock was assigned to St. Cloud of the Northern League, but his stint in the minor leagues was brief. After he led the Northern League in hits, runs, doubles, and batting average (.361), the Cubs called him up to the majors at the end of the 1961 season. They were so impressed with the young outfielder that Brock was added to the Cubs roster for the 1962 season. However, Brock was not prepared for this promotion. In the Lincoln Library of Sports Champions, Brock remarked, "I thought I wasn't ready...When they kept me with the Cubs in 1962, I asked myself why they kept me. What am I doing here? I realize I had the wrong attitude...It was both a blessing and a curse. I was learning with the best--but I was competing with the best. I didn't think I belonged. I let it hold me back." Brock struggled during his first year in the major leagues. He had compiled a respectable .263 batting average, but he was a defensive liability and was used only as a pinch-hitter late in the season. Brock had another mediocre season in 1963 and in 1964, after a promising start, went into a 3- for-42 slump at the plate. After two below-average seasons, the Cubs traded Brock to the St. Louis Cardinals in the middle of the 1964 season. Upon joining the Cardinals, Brock immediately became the starting left fielder. His impact on the team was dramatic. When Brock became a Cardinal on June 15th, the team was in fourth place, six and one-half games out of first. Brock hit .348 for the rest of the season as the Cardinals passed the Phillies, the Giants, and the Reds to capture the pennant. He eventually led his team to the 1964 World Series against the Yankees, which the Cardinals won in seven games.

In 1965 Brock scored 107 runs, hit .288, and stole 63 bases, beginning a string of consistently outstanding seasons. In 1966, after stealing 74 bases, he won the first of his eight base- stealing titles. Perhaps Brock's best season was in 1967. He led the National League with 113 runs scored, had 52 steals, notched 21 home runs, and drove in 78 runs. He capped the 1967 season with a stellar performance in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox, which the Cardinals won in seven games. He led the Cardinals back to the World Series in 1968, but they were defeated by the Detroit Tigers. At the time, Brock had the highest batting average (.391) of any player to appear in two or more World Series. He had also stolen 14 bases, a World Series record.

After stealing 51 bases in 1970 and finishing with the second- highest total in the league, Brock led the National League in stolen bases from 1971 to 1974. Incredibly, at the age of 35, Brock stole 118 bases during the 1974 season, breaking Maury Wills's single-season stolen base record of 104. In 1982, Rickey Henderson broke Brock's record with 130 steals. Brock told The Treasury of Baseball, "Baserunning arrogance is just like pitching arrogance or hitting arrogance. You are a force, and you have to instill that you are a force to the opposition. You have to have utter confidence." This aggressive attitude is one of the reasons why Brock became the oldest player to steal 100 bases. In 1977, Brock broke Ty Cobb's career stolen base record of 892. In 1978, at the age of 39, Brock hit only .221, but decided to play one more year in the hope of finishing his career on a strong note. For some professional athletes, the decision to extend their playing career leads to embarrassment or humiliation. This did not happen to Brock. He batted .304, became a member of the 3,000 hit club, and stole 21 bases in 1979. At the end of the season, Brock retired.

During his stellar career, Brock stole 938 bases, captured eight stolen-base titles, scored 90 runs in ten different seasons, and batted .300 in eight seasons. He stole 50 or more bases for 12 consecutive years, totaled 3,023 hits with a career .293 average, and was selected to the All-Star team six times. Since his playing career ended, Brock has remained active with the Cardinals organization and is the owner of a concessions business.

Awards

In 19 major league seasons scored 1,160 runs, knocked in 900 runs, had 3,023 hits, and a .293 career batting average; Stole 938 bases and appeared in six all-star games; Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.

Further Reading

Books

  • Pro Sports Hall of Fame: Volume Eight, Creative Media Applications, Inc., 1997.
  • The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions: Volume Two, Frontier Press Co., 1989.
  • The Treasury of Baseball, A Celebration of America's Pastime, Illinois Publications International, Ltd., 1994.
Periodicals
  • Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1988.
  • Sports Illustrated, January 30, 1995, p. 11.

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Lou Brock

Left fielder
Born: (1939-06-18) June 18, 1939 (age 72)
El Dorado, Arkansas
Batted: Left Threw: Left 
MLB debut
September 10, 1961 for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1979 for the St. Louis Cardinals
Career statistics
Batting average     .293
Hits     3,023
Home runs     149
Runs batted in     900
Stolen bases     938
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the National
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Induction     1985
Vote     79.75%

Louis Clark "Lou" Brock (born June 18, 1939) is an American former professional baseball player.[1] He began his Major League Baseball career with the Chicago Cubs but, spent the majority of his career as the left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. Brock was best known for breaking Ty Cobb's all-time major league stolen base record.[2] He is currently a special instructor coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. Brock was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.[3]

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Early life

Brock was born in El Dorado, Arkansas to a family of sharecroppers.[4] His family moved to Collinston, Louisiana when he was two years old.[2] While his family didn't have much money, he said that he never felt poor because,"If you don't have something, you don't miss it."[4] Brock grew up as a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team that included Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella.[4] Although he didn't play in organized baseball until he reached the 11th grade, he learned much about the sport from listening to Cardinals radio broadcaster Harry Caray describe the way major league hitters stood at the plate.[4] After attending high school in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, he received academic assistance to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge but, when a low grade in his first semester meant the possibility of losing his scholarship, he decided to try out for the school's baseball team in order to secure an athletic scholarship.[2]

Baseball career

College and the minor leagues

Brock hit for a .189 batting average in his first year of college baseball but, improved the following year to hit for a .500 average.[2] Southern University won the NAIA baseball championship during his junior year and, Brock was selected for the United States baseball team in the 1959 Pan American Games.[2] When Brock decided to try for a professional baseball career, he traveled to St. Louis to try out for the Cardinals but, the scout who had recommended him was in Seattle to sign Ray Washburn.[4] He then decided to try out for the Chicago Cubs who signed him as an amateur free agent in 1960. Assigned to play for the St. Cloud Rox, Brock won the 1961 Northern League batting championship with a .361 batting average.[5] It would be his only season in minor league baseball as the Cubs decided to promote him to the major leagues.[6]

Chicago Cubs

Brock made his major league debut with the Cubs on September 10, 1961 at the age of 21.[1] In his rookie season of 1962, Brock became one of four players to hit a home run into the center-field bleachers at the old Polo Grounds in New York since its 1923 reconstruction.[2] His blast came against Al Jackson in the second game of a June 17 doubleheader against the New York Mets in the first of back-to-back games with a center-field home run, Hank Aaron accomplishing the feat the very next day. Joe Adcock was the first to hit a ball over that wall, in 1953. Babe Ruth reached the old bleachers (a comparable distance) before the reconstruction. He was not known as a power hitter, but he did display significant power from time to time.

Brock was blessed with great speed and baserunning instincts, but the young right fielder failed to impress the Cubs management, hitting for only a combined .260 average over his first two seasons. In 1964 after losing patience with his development, the Cubs gave up on Brock and made him part of a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals. The June 15 deadline deal for pitcher Ernie Broglio saw Brock, Jack Spring and Paul Toth head to St. Louis for Broglio, Bobby Shantz, and Doug Clemens. Cardinals general manager Bing Devine, specifically sought Brock at the insistence of Cardinals' manager Johnny Keane to increase team speed and solidify the Cardinals' lineup, struggling after the retirement of left fielder Stan Musial in 1963. At the time, many thought the deal was a heist for the Cubs. Broglio had led the National League in wins four years earlier, and had won 18 games the season before the trade.

St. Louis Cardinals

After Brock was traded to the Cardinals, his career turned around significantly. He moved to left field and batted .348 and stole 38 bases for the remainder of the 1964 season.[1] At the time of the trade, the Cardinals were 28–31, in eighth place in the National League, trailing even the Cubs, who were 27–27 and in sixth place. Brock helped the Cardinals storm from behind to capture the National League pennant on the last day of the season.[2] Four months to the day after Brock's trade, the Cardinals would win the 1964 World Series in seven games over the favored New York Yankees, who were appearing in their fourteenth World Series in sixteen years (and their last until a dozen years later). Brock's contributions to the Cardinals' championship season were recognized when he finished in tenth place in voting for the 1964 National League Most Valuable Player Award.[7] Meanwhile, Broglio won only seven games for the Chicago Cubs before retiring from baseball after the 1966 season. To this day, the trade of Brock for Broglio is considered one of the most lopsided deals in baseball history.[8]

Lou Brock was part of the Cardinals' coaching staff during the team's 2005 spring training.

In 1966, Brock ended Maury Wills' six-year reign as the National League's stolen base champion with 76 steals.[9] In David Halberstam's book, October 1964, the author states that manager Johnny Keane asked Brock to forgo hitting home runs in favor of the stealing bases.[10] Brock went on to lead the National League in stolen bases eight times within a nine year span between 1966 and 1974 (former teammate Bobby Tolan led the league in steals in 1970).[2] Brock began the 1967 season by hitting 5 home runs in the first four games of the season, becoming the first player to do so.[11] He was hitting for a .328 average by mid-June to earn the role as the starting left fielder for the National League in the 1967 All-Star Game.[12][13] After suffering through a mid-season slump, he recovered to finish the season with a career-high 206 hits and a .299 batting average while leading the league in stolen bases and runs scored as the Cardinals won the National League pennant by ten and a half games. Brock became the first player to steal 50 bases and hit 20 home runs in the same season.[2] In the 1967 World Series, Brock hit for a .414 average, scored 8 runs and set a World Series record with seven stolen bases as the Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox in seven games.[14]

The Cardinals won the National League pennant for a second consecutive year in 1968 as Brock once again led the league in stolen bases as well as in doubles and triples.[1] In the 1968 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, Brock had three stolen bases in Game 3 and contributed a double, triple, home run and four runs batted in during Game 4 to help the Cardinals build a three game to one advantage over the Tigers.[15] The Cardinals appeared to be on the verge of winning a second consecutive World Series, going into the fifth inning of Game 5 with a 3–2 lead.[15] Although Brock's base running abilities had proven to be a factor in the previous four games, his carelessness may have cost the Cardinals a run.[15] After Brock had hit a double, he tried to score standing up on Julian Javier's single to left, but Willie Horton threw him out with a strong throw to home plate.[15] Detroit rallied for three runs in the seventh inning as Mickey Lolich shut out the Cardinals for the final eight innings to win the game for the Tigers.[15] In Game 7, Brock had another crucial miscue when he was picked off base by Lolich, extinguishing a possible Cardinals rally.[16] The Tigers rallied from being down three games to one behind the excellent pitching of Mickey Lolich to win the series.[15] Brock once again stole seven bases and was the leading hitter in the series, posting a .464 batting average with 6 runs and 5 runs batted in.[17]

Lou Brock stealing at Busch Stadium vs the Atlanta Braves, 1975.

At the end of the 1960s, Brock's career was entering its prime. Beginning in 1969, he produced six consecutive seasons with 190 hits or better. In August 1973, he broke a record set by Ty Cobb when he stole his 50th base of the season, marking the ninth time he had stolen 50 or more bases in a season.[18] In August 1974, Brock broke Maury Wills' single-season stolen base record of 104.[19] He ended the season with a new major league single-season record of 118 stolen bases.[2] Brock finished second to Steve Garvey in the balloting for the 1974 National League Most Valuable Player Award.[20]

In a game against the San Diego Padres on August 29, 1977 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Brock became the all-time major league stolen base leader when he broke Ty Cobb's career record of 892 stolen bases.[21] The record had been one of the most durable in baseball history and like Babe Ruth's record of 714 career home runs, had been considered unbreakable by some observers.[10]

Brock remained best known for base-stealing and starting Cardinals rallies. He was said to have disdained Maury Wills' method of base-stealing, instead shortening his leads and going hard. He was also an early student of game films. He used an 8 mm movie camera from the dugout to film opposing pitchers and study their windups and pickoff moves to detect weaknesses he could exploit.

Brock fell into a hitting slump early in the 1978 season and lost the left fielder's job however, he fought back during spring training in 1979 with a .345 batting average to regain his starting job.[22][23] Brock was named Player of the Month for the month of May 1979, during which he produced a .433 batting average.[24]

On August 13, 1979, Brock became the fourteenth player in Major League Baseball history to reach the 3,000 hits plateau against the team that traded him, the Chicago Cubs.[25] Approximately one month later, Carl Yastrzemski reached the same plateau and was promptly invited to the White House by Massachusetts Congressman Tip O'Neill. Brock was reported to have felt slighted that he hadn't received a similar invitation.[26] Brock originally stated that he wouldn't go to the White House even if he was invited however, after consideration he decided that forgiveness was the best course and accepted a belated invitation to meet with the President.[27] Brock retired at the end of the season, having posted a .304 batting average in his last season at the age of 40.[1]

Career statistics

In a nineteen-year career, Brock played in 2,616 games, accumulating 3,023 hits in 10,332 at bats for a .293 career batting average along with 149 home runs, 900 runs batted in and a .343 on base percentage.[1] A six-time All-Star, Brock hit over .300 eight times during his career.[1] He ended his career with a .959 career fielding percentage.[1]

Brock held the single-season stolen base record with 118 until it was broken by Rickey Henderson in 1982. He also held the major league record for career stolen bases with 938 until it was also broken by Henderson in 1991.[2] He led the National League in stolen bases for a record eight times and also had a record twelve consecutive seasons with 50 or more stolen bases.[1] Brock is still the National League's leader in career stolen bases.[28]

Brock's .391 World Series batting average is the highest for anyone who played over 20 series games.[1][2] His 14 stolen bases in World Series play are also a series record.[29] Brock's 13 hits in the 1968 World Series are a single-series record.[30]

In a unique (if incidental) accomplishment, Brock was the first player ever to bat in a major league regular season game in Canada. He led off the April 14, 1969 game against the Montreal Expos at Jarry Park by lining out to second baseman Gary Sutherland.

Awards, honors and life after baseball

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Lou Brock's number 20 was retired by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979.

Brock received numerous awards during his playing career. In January 1968 he was named the recipient of the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1967 World Series.[31] Brock was honored with The Sporting News Player of the Year Award in 1974.[32] In the wake of his record setting 118 stolen bases during the 1974 season, Brock was named the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award in March 1975, for best exemplefying the game of baseball both on and off the field.[33] In 1977 he was awarded the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award as the player who best exemplefied Lou Gehrig's ability and character.[34] In 1978, the National League announced that its annual stolen base leader would receive the Lou Brock Award, making Brock the first active player to have an award named after him.[28]

In October 1979, Brock was named the National League's Comeback Player of the Year.[35] In December 1979, he was named as the recipient of the Hutch Award, given to the player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire of Fred Hutchinson.[36] Also in 1979, the St. Louis Cardinals retired Brock's jersey number 20, an honor that had previously been bestowed upon only three other Cardinals players; Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean and Bob Gibson.[28] In 1983 he was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.[37]

Brock was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985, his first year of eligibility.[3] He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.[38] Brock was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in May 1994 and, in 1995 he was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.[39][40] In 1999, he was ranked Number 58 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.[41][42]

After retiring from baseball, Brock prospered as a businessman, especially as a florist in the St. Louis, Missouri area.[43] In 1980 he briefly worked as a color analyst for Monday Night Baseball telecasts on ABC. Brock still regularly appears at Cardinals games. When he steps onto the field he is always greeted by a loud, low-pitched cheer of "Loooouuuuuuuuuuuu". This may sound like "Boooo" to those unfamiliar with the team, and the town's love for Brock. He also lent his name to a unique rainhat, shaped like a miniature umbrella and to be worn at games during showers in lieu of retreating to the concourse. The product was called the "Brockabrella".

Brock and his wife are both ordained ministers serving at Abundant Life Fellowship Church in St. Louis and, he is a director on the board of YTB International.[44] Brock's speed was referenced in the song Check the Rhime by the pioneering "jazz rap" hip-hop ensemble A Tribe Called Quest. On December 5, 2006 he was recognized for his accomplishments on and off of the field when he received the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Brock is the father of former University of Southern California Trojan and National Football League player Lou Brock Jr.[45]

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