Brock, who would develop himself as one of the greatest leadoff hitters ever, remembered his teammates asking him after he got hot in the 2nd half of the 1964 season, “Are you sure you were a Cub?”
” I had actually gone to another dimension as a ball gamer,” he stated. “When you go to another measurement, you may be the exact same man, look the exact same, act the very same, but you play a lot various.”
Broglio was just 7-19 over 3 seasons after joining the Cubs and his profession was over after the 1966 season.
Brock hit.300 in that World Series and after that, revealing he was at his finest when the lights were brightest, batted.414 with 7 taken bases in the 1967 World Series, which the Cardinals won in seven video games from Boston. He also struck.464 with seven more steals and a record 13 hits in the 1968 World Series loss against Detroit.
Catcher Tim McCarver, who was on all of those clubs, beginning with 1964, stated, ” We were so close to Broglio. Our relationship blinded us to what type of effect Lou would have on the team — until we saw him run.”
” Ernie … terrific person. Terrific man. However, without Lou, we undoubtedly do not win. We would not have actually come close.”
Brock played the game nearly like no one else. From 1965, he began a stretch of 12 seasons where he balanced 65 takes and 99 runs scored a year, featuring his record-setting season in 1974 when he set the then major-league stolen-base record of 118 while finishing 2nd in the ballot for National League Most Valuable Player, an award he most likely need to have won.
