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...community ever had," says Al Hrabosky, a local celebrity whose biography is a testament to the omnipresence of A-B in St. Louis lives. Known as the "Mad Hungarian" for his antics on the mound, Hrabosky was a star relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals back when the Busch family owned the storied ball club. (The two-year-old downtown ballpark is still known as Busch Stadium, though Busch sold the club in 1995.) "A-B brought me to this city, where I married a St. Louis girl, settled down and raised a family," Hrabosky explains. Today, Budweiser...
...Brewery, as Anheuser-Busch is known around town, is not technically the biggest firm left standing; that honor goes to industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric. But it is certainly the most famous, an iconic American brand backed by one of the largest advertising budgets on earth. Nearly half of all American beer is brewed by A-B. Every time a radio ad for Bud or Bud Light ends with the words "St. Louis, Missouri," it's a shot in the arm for the hometown, which is why more than 45,000 people, including the mayor of St. Louis and the governor...
...Anheuser-Busch is the legacy of an enterprising German immigrant named Adolphus Busch, who married the daughter of a middling brewer, Eberhard Anheuser, in 1861. Brewing the blond and foamy lager of his native land and seizing on the science of pasteurization, Busch "brought bottled beer to the masses," in the words of biographers Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey. At Busch's death in 1913, A-B was the biggest beermaker in the country - a distinction the company never relinquished, despite a near death experience during Prohibition...
...Descendants of the patriarch have run the company ever since - while giving St. Louis its version of a lordly, extravagant and occasionally scandalous royal family. The company and the Busch family have spread their wealth across the community - from the United Way to St. Louis and Washington universities; from the orchestra to the zoo - a reported $10 million of local charity last year alone. Tours of the brewery are among the city's most popular tourist attractions, and every year hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy the grounds of the family's estate, Grant's Farm, where children ogle...
...latest clan member to run the firm is August A. Busch IV, who said earlier this year that the company will never be sold on his watch. Missouri governor Matt Blunt has denounced the takeover bid and Senator Claire McCaskill declared, after a visit from InBev boss Carlos Brito, that she would do everything in her power to block the deal...