Editing Lou Brock (section)

==Personal life==
Brock and his wife, Jackie, were both ordained ministers serving at Abundant Life Fellowship Church in St. Louis, and he was a director on the board of [[YTB International]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ytbi.com/BoardOfDirectors.html |title=YTB International Board of Directors |publisher=ytbi.com |access-date=April 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312005352/http://www.ytbi.com/BoardOfDirectors.html |archive-date=March 12, 2009 }}</ref> Brock's speed was referred to in the song "[[Check the Rhime]]" by the pioneering "[[jazz rap]]" hip-hop ensemble [[A Tribe Called Quest]]. On December 5, 2006, he was recognized for his accomplishments on and off of the field when he received the [[Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation]] ''Lifetime Achievement Award''. Brock was the father of former [[USC Trojans football|University of Southern California Trojan]] and [[National Football League]] player [[Lou Brock Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BROCKLOU02 |title=Lou Brock Jr. statistics |publisher=databasefootball.com |access-date=April 20, 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515014622/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BROCKLOU02 |archive-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> He is also the granduncle of sports journalist and broadcaster [[Taylor Rooks]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rooks|first=Taylor|title=Inside the Great NBA Bubble Experiment|url=https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-nba-bubble|access-date=November 24, 2020|website=GQ|date=November 24, 2020|language=en-us}}</ref>

=== Health and death ===
Brock's left leg was amputated below the knee in October 2015, because of an infection related to a [[diabetic]] condition.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hall-of-famer-lou-brock-recovering-after-partial-amputation-of-left-leg-003749704.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma |title=Hall of Famer Lou Brock recovering after partial amputation of left leg |date=November 12, 2015 |work=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref>

Brock announced on April 13, 2017, that he was diagnosed with [[multiple myeloma]], a blood cancer that starts in the [[bone marrow]]'s [[plasma cell]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article/224089576/hall-of-famer-lou-brock-has-multiple-myeloma/?topicId=27118406 |title=Hall of Famer Lou Brock treated for blood cancer |work=MLB.com |date=April 13, 2017 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517005146/http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article/224089576/hall-of-famer-lou-brock-has-multiple-myeloma/?topicId=27118406 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On July 28, 2017, Brock and his wife said they had received word from [[Mercy Hospital St. Louis|Mercy Hospital]]'s doctors that, according to their blood tests, the cancerous cells were gone. Brock said the cancer had been declining for some time. "We got reports that it was 25% gone, then 50%, then 75% gone," he said. "The doctors were absolute. [Cancer] is not there."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/brock-says-that-his-cancer-is-gone/article_fdf6b127-ba9c-575a-8f3b-92d4b0055e57.html |title=Brock says that his cancer is gone |publisher=stltoday.com |date=July 28, 2017}}</ref>

Brock died on September 6, 2020, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-legend-lou-brock-dies-sunday-afternoon-at-81/article_1fb0067d-7526-5d8c-b92d-4896a9b91e6b.html |title=Cardinals legend Lou Brock dies Sunday afternoon at 81 |publisher=stltoday.com |date=September 6, 2020}}</ref>