As Lou Brock was chasing 3000 career hits late in the 1979
season-his last after 18 years in the majors-the St. Louis
Cardinals were looking for a new identity. Brock's departure
represented the final link to the team's glory years of the 1960s,
and a parade of new players now came in from the minor leagues.
With the Cardinals mired in last place by the following June, owner
August A. Busch, Jr., hired Whitey Herzog as field manager, and
shortly handed him the general manager's position, too. Herzog was
given free rein to rebuild the club to embrace the new running game
trend in the majors. With an aggressive style of play and an
unconventional approach to personnel moves, he catapulted the
Cardinals back into prominence and defined a new age of baseball in
St. Louis.
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