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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.
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