Drama and Pride in the Gateway City: The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals

by Bill Nowlin

Book Overview

By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again.

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243723
• ISBN13: 9780803243729
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.9"