Lou Brock (1939–2020,) fully Louis Clark Brock, was an American professional baseball player. This legendary base stealer was a Hall of Famer (1985.)
Born to a family of sharecroppers, El Dorado, Arkansas, Brock attended Southern University in Baton Rouge and played college baseball. His team won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ baseball championship during his junior year, and Brock joined the United States baseball team in the 1959 Pan American Games. He signed with the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1960.
Brock played for the Chicago Cubs 1961–64 and the St. Louis Cardinals 1964–79. His 938 stolen bases set a record that held until 1991 when Rickey Henderson broke it. After retiring from baseball, Brock prospered as an entrepreneur in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
—Lou Brock
Topics: Competition
If you’re successful in what you do over a period of time, you’ll start approaching records, but that’s not what you’re playing for. You’re playing to challenge and be challenged.
—Lou Brock
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
—Lou Brock
Topics: Competition
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can’t win and steroids has put us in the position that it’s OK to cheat.
—Lou Brock
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