Enos Slaughter, #9
Date: 4/10/2012 Album ID: 1448673
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff and the Associated Press
Enos "Country" Slaughter was an outfielder for the Cardinals. With time off for military service, he played for the Cardinals from 1938 until 1953. He is known for his mad dash to home to score the winning run in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series, a and was immortalized with a statue in front of Busch Stadium. He cried when he was traded to the New York Yankees in 1954, and when he died in 2002, he was buried in a replica of a Cardinals uniform.
FILE PHOTO 1951 -- Enos Slaughter, former St. Louis Cardinal
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FILE PHOTO 1952 --  Enos Slaughter a cardinal's legend.
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Enos Slaughter (9), slides across home plate with the St. Louis Cardinals fourth run which proved to be the series payoff run, in the eighth inning of the seventh World Series game October 15, 1946 at St. Louis.  Umpire is Al Barlick.(AP Photo)
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Whitey Kurowski, Enos Slaughter, Marty Marion and Stan Musial know the year the Cardinals won their third world title in the '40s.
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The St. louis Cardinals of October 1942:  Jimmy Brown, Terry Moore, Enos Slaughter, Stan Musial,walker cooper,Johnny Hopp,whitey Kurowski,Marty Marionj,Mort Cooper, and Billy Southworth
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FILE PHOTO 1950 -- Enos Slaughter, left, and Marty Marion, right, welcome Harry Walker, center, back to the Redbird flock at the St. Petersberg, Fla. training camp.
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FILE PHOTO 1946 -- Bob Broeg presents a $50 war bond from the Post-Dispatch to Cardinals outfielder Enos Slaughter at Sportsman's Park in 1946, the year major leaguers returned from World War II.
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FILE PHOTO 1953 -- Enos Slaughter crossing the plate with the National Leagues teams first run of the fifth inning in the 1953 All-Star game in Cincinnati. Slaughter is one of the outstanding heroes of the annual All-Star game. The chagrined catcher is former St. Louisan Yogi Berra of the Yankess.
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FILE PHOTO DECEMBER 29, 1953 -- Enos Slaughter, a 37-year-old outfielder who joined the Cardinals in 1937, is shown with club president, August A. Busch, Jr. as the two looked over the player's 1954 contract. Enos signed the document at Busch's office on Pestallozzi Street.
He has now signed under three Cardinal Club owners, Sam Breadon, Fred Saigh and Busch.
PHOTO BY LLOYD SPAINHOWER/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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** FILE ** St. Louis Cardinals hall of famers Stan Musial, left, Joe Medwick and Enos Slaughter, right, pose in this July 30, 1950 file photo, prior to a New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals old-timers game in New York.  Slaughter, who played in five World Series, died early Monday, Aug. 12, 2002. He was 86. Slaughter batted .300 in 19 seasons, 13 of them with the St. Louis Cardinals.  (AP Photo/John Lent, File)
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FILE PHOTO APRIL 11, 1954 -- Enos Slaughter, Cardinal rightfielder, weeps on hearing that the Cardinals had traded him to the Yankees in 1954.
PHOTO BY JACK JANUARY
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FILE PHOTO JULY 22, 1973 -- Former Cardinals outfielder Enos Slaughter shows some of his familiar hustle as he races to left field for yesterday's old-timers game at Busch Stadium.
POST-DISPATCH FILE
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** FILE ** St. Louis Cardinal great and hall-of-famer Enos Slaughter admires a statue depicting his famous slide to win the 1946 World Series after it was unveiled at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, in this July 18, 1999, file photo. The statue will join others of Cardinal greats outside Busch Stadium. Slaughter, a member of baseball's Hall of Fame who batted .300 in 19 seasons, 13 of them with the St. Louis Cardinals and played in five World Series, died early Monday, Aug. 12, 2002, at Duke University Medical Center. He was 86. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam, File)
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FILE PHOTO SEPTEMBER 6, 1996 -- Cardinals Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter addresses the crowd at Busch Stadium at a ceremony to retire his number.
POST-DISPATCH PHOTO BY ODELL MITCHELL
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FILE PHOTO 1992 -- Enos Slaughter. Rightfield Cardinal:1938-42: 1946-53.
Inducted 1985. Photo taken in the box seats at Busch Stadium.
P-D FILE
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