RIP Lou Brock

[Moderator1]

 

[Liut]

Thank you, Moddy. Have not clicked on the link, but Mr. Brock had been fighting health issues for some time. RIP to an all-time great player.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Oh boo.

Putting aside Babe Ruth for cash, was he the centerpiece of the most one-sided trade in major league history?

I only got to see him at the end of his career, but he even had a mystique -- and stole a boat load of bases -- when he in his 30s.

RIP to one of the great ones.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Sandberg and Bowa for DeJesus was way more lopsided.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Also, Jeff Bagwell and Randy Johnson come to mind.

 

[Liut]

Sandberg and Bowa for DeJesus was way more lopsided.

Maybe so, but it didn't result in two World Series championships and three NL titles during a decade. The Brock acquisition was a huge catalyst for St. Louis during its crazy 1964 season.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

By modern standards, Lou Brock was a mostly ordinary player. By World Series standards, he was a damn, sure fire superstar.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Glad he didn’t slide

 

[Splendid Splinter]

True. Awful week with baseball legends.

 

[maumann]

Brock and Flood were running with abandon in that series. To think Bill Freehan is still suffering from Alzheimer's is heartbreaking.

RIP to another guy on my Cadaco All-Star disc set.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Brock and Flood were running with abandon in that series. To think Bill Freehan is still suffering from Alzheimer's is heartbreaking.

RIP to another guy on my Cadaco All-Star disc set.

Brock, who dominated in that Series, hitting .464, was also involved in a key Game 7 play.
He walked to lead off the sixth and took a lead big enough he was daring Mickey Lolich to throw to first.
Lolich threw to first, Norm Cash threw to second and Brock was tagged out

 

[Liut]

Yes ... absolutely crazy, and I'm dating myself ... But I remember Willie Horton trying to hit taters in the Kingdome, more than anything else.

However, that's more of a weird fascination with Mariners' expansion than anything else LOL.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Yes ... absolutely crazy, and I'm dating myself ... But I remember Willie Horton trying to hit taters in the Kingdome, more than anything else.

However, that's more of a weird fascincation with Mariners' expansion than anything else LOL.

When Horton entered the vagabond part of his career, he would take a batting helmet from team to team and paint over the old logo with that of his new team
By the time he got to the Mariners that was about six coats

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

****ing 2020.

 

[MileHigh]

RIP. This year has sucked on so many levels beyond belief.

 

[Starman]

Glad he didn’t slide

"He still ain't touched the plate."


But RIP. He was a hell of a player.

 

[MTM]

Oh boo.

Putting aside Babe Ruth for cash, was he the centerpiece of the most one-sided trade in major league history?

I only got to see him at the end of his career, but he even had a mystique -- and stole a boat load of bases -- when he in his 30s.

RIP to one of the great ones.

Saw interviews with Tim McCarver and Mike Shannon and they both said the team was upset they gave up Broglio. Obviously, things worked out.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Thank Tebow I never had to experience the 1969-1981 Cardinals. It's very similar to experiencing the 1997-2048 Cowboys.

 

[ChrisLong]

Must have been around 1986. I got a call in the office from a woman who was a college classmate. She started her own PR company and, somehow, got a contract to do secondary PR for the All-Star Game. She asked me if I could do a feature for something associated with the game. I agreed, because she was classmate. She said she was still trying to work out details, but we set a time where someone would come to my office in suburban L.A. for an interview.
I didn't know who was coming, but I figured I could BS a feature and be done with it, and help out a friend. I'm there at the agreed upon time and in comes Lou Brock. I'm pretty freaking stunned that a Hall of Famer came to my office to see me. Fortunately, I was doing some USC football coverage and his son was on the team. So I tied in the feature with him and his son. Worked pretty well.
Of course, he was pushing Brockabrellas, so there was mention of that, too.

 

[mpcincal]

Saw interviews with Tim McCarver and Mike Shannon and they both said the team was upset they gave up Broglio. Obviously, things worked out.

The story that Moddy linked in the first post of the thread has some quotes about that. I was kind of surprised to read that because I've had it pounded into me about what a steal that was for the Cardinals; I thought that was the prevailing opinion from the start.
Actually, Brock's stats with the Cubs weren't all that impressive at the time of the trade, but he caught fire as soon as he joined St. Louis and the rest was history.