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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...
Died. Sam Breadon, 72, longtime president of the St. Louis Cardinals, who ran his original $200 investment to some $3,000,000 by the time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen...
Crepe & Cardinals. Sam Breadon was not a shaky character. Back in 1926, when he calmly traded off Rogers Hornsby, the hero who won the first World Series St. Louis ever had, riotous fans hung crepe on Sam's office door, jumped on the running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes...
Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...
...Rickey was now growing a better crop in Brooklyn.) Whether that prompted 72-year-old Salesman Sam's last big sale, nobody knew. All Sam Breadon said...