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 1967, and 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.
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