Editing Lou Brock (section)

== Career statistics ==
In his 19-year major league career, Brock played in 2,616 [[Games played|games]] and accumulated 3,023 [[Hit (baseball)|hits]] in 10,332 [[at bats]] for a .293 career batting average along with 486 [[double (baseball)|doubles]], 141 [[triple (baseball)|triples]], 149 home runs, 900 [[Run batted in|RBI]], 1,610 [[run (baseball)|runs]], 938 [[stolen bases]], 761 [[bases on balls]], a .343 [[on-base percentage]], and a .410 [[slugging percentage]].<ref name="Lou Brock statistics"/> A six-time All-Star, Brock hit over .300 eight times during his career.<ref name="Lou Brock statistics"/> He ended his career with a .959 career [[fielding percentage]].<ref name="Lou Brock statistics"/>

Brock held the single-season stolen base record with 118 until it was broken by Rickey Henderson with 130 in 1982. He also held the major league record for a career [[stolen base]]s with 938 until it was also broken by Henderson in 1991.<ref name="Success Story: Lou Brock's Climb to the Hall of Fame"/> He led the National League in stolen bases for a record eight times and also had a record 12 consecutive seasons with 50 or more stolen bases.<ref name=" Lou Brock statistics"/> Brock is still the National League's leader in career stolen bases.<ref name="St. Louis Cardinals Retired numbers">{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/stl/history/retired_numbers.jsp |title=St. Louis Cardinals Retired numbers |work=mlb.com |access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref>

Brock's .391 World Series batting average is the highest for anyone who played over 20 series games.<ref name="Success Story: Lou Brock's Climb to the Hall of Fame"/><ref name="Lou Brock statistics"/> His 14 stolen bases in World Series play are also a series record.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_records.jsp?type=career |title=World Series Records |work=mlb.com |access-date=April 19, 2011}}</ref> Brock's 13 hits in the 1968 World Series tied a single-series record previously made by [[Bobby Richardson]] in 1964 against his Cardinals' team, and was in turn later tied in 1986 by [[Marty Barrett (second baseman)|Marty Barrett]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_records.jsp?type=single_series |title=World Series single series records |work=mlb.com |access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref>