Editing Lou Brock (section)

===Chicago Cubs===
Brock made his major league debut with the Cubs on September 10, [[1961 Chicago Cubs season|1961]], at the age of 22.<ref name="Lou Brock statistics">{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brocklo01.shtml |title=Lou Brock statistics |website=Baseball Reference |access-date=April 19, 2011}}</ref> In his rookie season of [[1962 Chicago Cubs season|1962]], Brock became one of four players to hit a [[home run]] into the center-field [[bleachers]] at the old [[Polo Grounds]] in [[New York City]] since its 1923 reconstruction. His blast came against [[Al Jackson]] in the first game of a June 17 [[doubleheader (baseball)|doubleheader]] against the [[1962 New York Mets season|New York Mets]] and was one of two that cleared the wall in consecutive days,<ref name="Success Story: Lou Brock's Climb to the Hall of Fame"/> with [[Hank Aaron]]'s coming the very next day. [[Joe Adcock]] was the first to hit a ball over that wall, in 1953. [[Babe Ruth]] reached the old bleachers (a comparable distance) before the reconstruction. Brock was not known as a power hitter, though he aspired to be one.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holtzman |first1=Jerome |title=The Cubs' most infamous trade didn't look nearly that bad 25 years ago |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-06-15-8902100268-story.html |website=The Chicago Tribune|date=June 15, 1989 }}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer Known for Stealing Bases, Dies at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/sports/baseball/lou-brock-dead.html |website=The New York Times|date=September 6, 2020 }}</ref>

Brock had great speed and [[base running]] instincts, but the young right fielder failed to impress the Cubs management, hitting for only a combined .260 average over his first two seasons. In [[1964 Chicago Cubs season|1964]] after losing patience with his development, the Cubs gave up on Brock and made him part of a trade with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom Owens|title=Greatest Baseball Players of All Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6WE9At5BKYC|year=1990|publisher=Publications International|isbn=978-0-88176-696-7|page=66}}</ref> The June 15 deadline deal for pitcher [[Ernie Broglio]] saw Brock, [[Jack Spring]], and Paul Toth head to St. Louis for Broglio, [[Bobby Shantz]], and [[Doug Clemens]]. Cardinals general manager [[Bing Devine]] specifically sought Brock at the insistence of Cardinals' manager [[Johnny Keane]] to increase team speed and solidify the Cardinals' lineup, which was struggling after the retirement of left fielder [[Stan Musial]] in [[1963 St. Louis Cardinals season|1963]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jim Bresnahan|title=Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVdcMkcuRNYC&pg=PA139|date=July 5, 2006|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2546-4|page=139}}</ref> At the time, many thought the deal was a heist for the Cubs. Broglio had led the National League in wins four years earlier, and had won 18 games the season before the trade.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Paul |title=Former Cubs pitcher Ernie Broglio, who was part of the famous Lou Brock trade with the Cardinals, dies at 83 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cubs/ct-cubs-ernie-broglio-dies-20190717-22p3wahjojakzgzreixv6cxafi-story.html |website=The Chicago Tribune|date=July 17, 2019 }}</ref>