Lou Brock
Lou Brock (June 18, 1939-September 6, 2020) (who later went on to become a Hall of Famer) would help the St. Louis Cardinals win three league championships and two World Series during the 1960s. Base Stealing was an art form and a kind of warfare for Brock. He was one of the first players to study opposing pitchers’ films and relied on ability and psychology once on base.
Lou Brock
Tom Seaver
Tom Seaver (November 17, 1944-August 31, 2020), who won the Rookie of the Year Award for the National League in 1967, earned a lot of nicknames such as “Tom Terrific,” or – given his ability to raise the New York baseball club from ignominy to mastery – “The Franchise.” After retiring in 2012 to run a vineyard in California, Seaver was interviewed by The New York Times as to what he was most proud of in his career, in which he answered, “Pitching well consistently over long periods. And I love what I did. I adored what I did.”
Tom Seaver
