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Drama and Pride in the Gateway City University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press -- Sample Books and Chapters University of Nebraska Press Spring 2013 Drama and Pride in the Gateway City John Harry Stahl Bill Nowlin Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples Stahl, John Harry and Nowlin, Bill, "Drama and Pride in the Gateway City" (2013). University of Nebraska Press -- Sample Books and Chapters. 162. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/162 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Nebraska Press at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Nebraska Press -- Sample Books and Chapters by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City Buy the Book Memorable Teams in Baseball History Buy the Book Drama and Pride in the Gateway City The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals Edited by John Harry Stahl and Bill Nowlin Associate Editors: Tom Heinlein, Russell Lake, and Leonard Levin Published by the University of Nebraska Press Lincoln & London, and the Society for American Baseball Research Buy the Book © 2013 by the Society for American Baseball Research All photographs are courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York, unless otherwise indicated. Player statistics courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Drama and pride in the gateway city: the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals / edited by John Harry Stahl and Bill Nowlin; associate editors,Tom Heinlein, Russell Lake, and Leonard Levin. pages cm. — (Memorable Teams in Baseball History) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-0-8032-4372-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)—History—20th century. I. Stahl, John Harry. gv875.s3d73 2013 796.357'64097786609046—dc23 2012038299 Set in Sabon by Laura Wellington. Buy the Book Table of Contents Introduction . vii 17. Dick Groat . 89 Mark Armour Joseph Wancho 1. Dave Bakenhaster . 1 18. Glen Hobbie . 95 Joe Schuster Jim Leefers 2. Ken Boyer . 4 19. Bob Humphreys . 101 Burton A. Boxerman John Harry Stahl 3. Lou Brock . 9 20. Charlie James . 106 Dave Williams Russell Lake 4. Ernie Broglio . 17 21. Julián Javier . 112 Russell Lake Paul Geisler Jr. 5. Jerry Buchek . 23 22. Johnny Lewis . 117 Mark Simon John Harry Stahl 6. Lew Burdette . 27 23. Timeline, June 1–June 30 . 121 Alex Kupfer John Harry Stahl 7. Timeline, April 14–April 30 . 33 24. Jeoff Long . 125 John Harry Stahl Rory Costello 8. Doug Clemens . 36 25. Dal Maxvill . 131 John Harry Stahl Loretta Donovan 9. Roger Craig . 40 26. Tim McCarver . 138 Richard L. Shook Dave Williams 10. Mike Cuellar . 45 27. Joe Morgan . 144 Adam J. Ulrey Rory Costello 11. Dave Dowling . 51 28. Gordon Richardson . 149 Rory Costello John Harry Stahl 12. Harry Fanok . 55 29. Ray Sadecki . 153 Rory Costello Justin Murphy 13. Curt Flood . 58 30. Barney Schultz . 158 Terry W. Sloope John Harry Stahl 14. Phil Gagliano . 69 31. Timeline, July 1–July 31 . 163 Bill Nowlin John Harry Stahl 15. Timeline, May 1–May 31 . 76 32. Mike Shannon . 167 John Harry Stahl Kevin D. McCann 16. Bob Gibson . 80 33. Bobby Shantz . 174 Terry W. Sloope Mel Marmer Buy the Book 34. Curt Simmons . 181 48. Red Schoendienst . 259 Edward W. Veit Kristen Lokemoen 35. Bob Skinner . 186 49. Joe Schultz . 266 Joseph Wancho Rory Costello 36. Ed Spiezio . 192 50. Bing Devine . 271 John Harry Stahl Mark Armour 37. Jack Spring . 196 51. Bob Howsam . 276 Jim Price Mark Armour 38. Ron Taylor . 203 52. Branch Rickey . 283 Maxwell Kates Andy McCue 39. Timeline, August 1–August 31 . 210 53. Stan Musial . 290 John Harry Stahl Jan Finkel 40. Bob Uecker . 214 54. Jack Buck . 294 Eric Aron Kristen Lokemoen 41. Carl Warwick . 221 55. Timeline, October 1–October 4 . 301 Thomas Ayers John Harry Stahl 42. Ray Washburn . 227 56. Harry Caray . 303 Tim Herlich Matt Bohn 43. Bill White . 232 57. August A. Busch Jr. 310 Warren Corbett John Harry Stahl 44. Johnny Keane . 238 58. A Three-Way Tie for the Pennant? . 317 John Harry Stahl Russell Lake 45. Vern Benson . 243 59. The 1964 World Series . 321 Rory Costello John Harry Stahl 46. Howie Pollet . 248 Epilogue . 329 Warren Corbett John Harry Stahl 47. Timeline, September 1–September 30 . 254 Notes and References . 331 John Harry Stahl Contributors . 361 Buy the Book Introduction Mark Armour Although the St. Louis Cardinals have had much The 1964 world champion St. Louis Cardinals. success in the past one hundred years, including Back row (left to right): Ray Sadecki, Bob Uecker, eleven World Series titles, by 1964 they had gone Ed Spiezio, Dal Maxvill, Tim McCarver, Mike Shannon, seventeen years without a pennant and had rarely Ron Taylor, Charley Jones, Jerry Buchek. Middle row: contended in the interval. Three-time champions Gordon Richardson, Ray Washburn, Curt Simmons, Bob Gibson, Bob Skinner, Mike Cueller, Roger Craig, in the 1940s, the Cards had slowly faded from rele- Lou Brock, Bob Milliken (batting practice pitcher), vance in the early 1950s and largely sat on the side- Carl Warwick, Bob Humphreys. Front row: Curt Flood, lines during what would become a fabled era for Ken Boyer, Dick Groat, Howard Pollet (coach), Joe Schulz the National League. (coach), Johnny Keane (manager), Vern Benson (coach), Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers Red Schoendienst (coach), Bill White, Barney Schultz, in 1947, integrating the Major Leagues and dra- Julián Javier. Front: Bob Baker (batboy). (Photo by Allied matically changing what was still the National Photocolor Imaging Center) Pastime. Soon there were fi ve black players, then ten, then twenty, including many of the greatest players ever to play the game, men such as Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, and Roy Campanella. All of them, or nearly so, played in the National League, for teams like the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Braves. During this historic period, the Cardinals Buy the Book and their fans watched their team wither away, Courtesy of Tom Zocco. while the integrated teams won pennant after pennant. The story began to change in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing and acquiring talented players regardless of color, and slowly, sometimes very slowly, they began their rise. The team Bing Devine built was a well-inte- grated team, and its black players were some of its most proud and memorable leaders: Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League; Curt Flood, who would challenge baseball’s very structure in 1970; Lou Brock, whose June acqui- sition sparked the club’s turnaround; and, most especially, Bob Gibson, whose demeanor and pride helped defi ne the team right until the fi nal game. If the 1964 Cardinals were not an all-time great team, they were a fascinating team and a great story. Assumed dead in midseason (forcing Busch to fi re Devine and almost fi re Keane), the team roared back into the race and won a dra- matic pennant race on the fi nal day. All of the men come alive again on these pages—Tim McCarver, Ken Boyer, Mike Shannon, Branch Rickey, Bob Uecker—men whose names are still famous today in St. Louis and everywhere baseball is played. If you are lucky enough to remember this proud team and its dramatic rush to glory, or if you wish to discover it for the fi rst time, you will enjoy the stories in these pages. viii mark armour Buy the Book Buy the Book Buy the Book Chapter 1. Dave Bakenhaster Joe Schuster AGE W L PCT. ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H BB SO HBP WP 19 0 0 .000 6.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 9 1 0 0 0 During spring training before the 1964 baseball season, a photographer for the Newspaper Enter- prise Association took a picture of St. Louis Car- dinals rookie pitcher Dave Bakenhaster side by side with coach Red Schoendienst. The light- hearted photo shows the two laughing, Schoendi- enst pointing to Bakenhaster’s name on the back of the rookie’s jersey. When the photographer put the picture on the news wires with a caption proclaim- ing that, despite the eleven letters in the pitcher’s name, Schoendienst maintained his record of hav- ing the “longest name on a Cardinals’ jersey,” it appeared in a number of newspapers across the country from early March into early April.1 Bakenhaster had every reason to be in good spirits that spring. The previous summer, after a spectacular high school career in which he had thrown nine no-hitters, the Cardinals had given him an estimated $40,000 signing bonus, outbid- ding most of the other Major League teams for the rights to what one sportswriter called “the much- In 1964 the nineteen-year-old Dave Bakenhaster pitched sought-after . whip-armed . pitcher.”2 Bak- three innings in two games, allowing two earned runs. The enhaster was one of two fi rst-year “bonus babies” Cardinals sent him to the Minors in late July. (Collection of the Cardinals had that year (the other was infi elder Bill Nowlin) Ed Spiezio). The rules at the time required that St. Louis keep at least one of them with the big-league for a total of three innings; his line for his meager club and gave the team the option to designate the appearances showed 9 hits, 6 runs (2 earned), 1 other as a member of the twenty-fi ve-man ros- walk, and no strikeouts.
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