
In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch working on both, and by May 1966, when the new Busch Stadium was opened, the St. Louis Cardinals were on the cusp of greatness. A world championship would follow in...
Paperback: 410 pages
Publisher: McFarland & Company; trade pbk edition (April 3, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786429658
ISBN-13: 978-0786429653
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1014444
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This is a marvelous look at the history of the St Louis Cardinals, with a focus on two of its all-time great teams: the 1967 team that played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series and the 1968 team that played the Detroit Tigers.Beyond focusing sole...
in 1968 the Cardinals battled the Tigers in a classic seven-game series, narrowly losing their bid for back-to-back titles.This volume looks back at the outstanding Cardinal teams of the 1967 and 1968 seasons. Beginning with the ownership shift in the early 1950s, it examines the events leading up to the opening of the new stadium and tracks the various player trades, policy changes and inside dealings of baseball that produced one of the era's great teams. The effects of Branch Rickey's farm system on both the franchise's success and the sport of baseball are discussed, as are the rumblings of labor trouble that would directly involve one of the Cardinals' own. An appendix contains detailed statistics from the 1967 and 1968 seasons. An index and period photographs are also included.