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Lou Brock
American baseball player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Clark "Lou" Brock (June 18, 1939 – September 6, 2020) was an American former professional baseball player. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing in 1961 for the Chicago Cubs, and spent the majority of his career playing as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Left fielder | |||
Born: (1939-06-18)June 18, 1939 El Dorado, Arkansas | |||
Died: September 6, 2020(2020-09-06) (aged 81) St. Louis, Missouri | |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 10, 1961, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 30, 1979, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .293 | ||
Hits | 3,023 | ||
Home runs | 149 | ||
Runs batted in | 900 | ||
Stolen bases | 938 | ||
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Career highlights and awards | |||
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Member of the National | |||
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Induction | 1985 | ||
Vote | 79.75% (first ballot) | ||
Brock was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 [1] and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. He is currently a special instructor coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.
In April 2017, Brock was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow's plasma cells.[2] In July 2017, Brock said that he was "absolutely cancer-free".[3]
Brock died in St. Louis, Missouri on September 6, 2020 at the age of 81.[4]