![]() ![]() Late in the season, he publicly criticized the team for reorganizing the team before they were officially eliminated. ![]() His brother was arrested during the season. In 1969, despite the lower pitching mound instituted that season, which saw a general rise in batting average league-wide, Flood's batting average slipped to. While Busch eventually relented, Flood took it personally when Busch publicly chewed the team out after most players boycotted spring training before the 1969 season for a week, accusing players of forgetting that fans were what kept the sport going (although he did not mention any player by name). He believed Busch, with whom he had hitherto enjoyed a close personal friendship, was expressing his displeasure over the error that had likely cost the team the Series. 286 with three steals.Īfter the season ended, Flood was upset when Cardinals' president Gussie Busch, also CEO of team owner Anheuser-Busch, offered him only a $5,000 raise, far short of the $90,000 salary he believed he deserved after his stellar regular season. Up to that point, Flood had been enjoying the best series of his career despite dealing with personal problems at home, hitting. Had he not momentarily lost his footing chasing a Jim Northrup fly ball (ruled a triple) with two out in the seventh inning of game 7 of the 1968 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, the Cardinals might have won their third championship of the decade Detroit scored twice on the play, with Northrup later coming in for a 3-0 lead, and won the game 4-1. The next day, he caught Willie McCovey's fly ball for the final out of Ray Washburn's 2-0 no-hitter. On September 17, he struck out for the final out of Gaylord Perry's 1-0 gem. Against the San Francisco Giants that year, Flood was involved in the final outs of the first back-to-back no-hitters in major league history. As team co-captain (with Tim McCarver) in 1968 he had perhaps his best year, earning his third All-Star selection and finishing fourth in the MVP balloting (won by teammate Bob Gibson) on the strength of a. In game 1, he advanced Brock to third base twice, putting him in position to score both runs in a 2-1 victory in game 3, he drove Brock in with the first run of a 5-2 win. In the 1967 World Series against the Boston Red Sox he hit a woeful. 335 average (though his other batting totals fell off from previous years), helping the Cardinals to another championship. In 1967 he had his highest batting mark with a. He made the All-Star team again in 1966, a season in which he did not commit a single error in the outfield his record errorless streaks of 226 games (NL record for an outfielder ) and 568 total chances (major league record) ran from September 3, 1965, to June 4, 1967. In 1965 Flood had his greatest power output with 11 home runs and 83 runs batted in while hitting. 200 but scored in three of the Cardinal victories as the team won in seven games for its first championship since 1946. Batting leadoff in the 1964 World Series against the New York Yankees, he hit only. He tied for tops in hits with The Pittsburgh Pirates' Roberto Clemente with 211. His 679 at-bats led the NL again and were the fifth highest total in league history to that point, setting a team record by surpassing Taylor Douthit's 1930 total of 664 Lou Brock broke the team record three years later with 689. He earned his first All-Star selection in 1964. In that year he received the first of his seven consecutive Gold Gloves. 302 and scoring a career-high 112 runs, third most in the NL he also had career bests in doubles (34), triples (9) and stolen bases (17) and collected 200 hits in an NL-leading 662 at bats. He continued to improve offensively in 1963, hitting. He had his breakthrough year after Johnny Keane took over as manager in 1961: He batted. Louis although he struggled at the plate from 1958 to 1960, his defensive skill was apparent. ![]() For the next twelve seasons, he became a fixture in center field for St. Flood signed with the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1956 and made a handful of appearances for the team in 1956–57 before being traded to the Cardinals in December 1957. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Oakland, California, Flood played in the same outfield in West Oakland's McClymonds High School as Vada Pinson and Frank Robinson. ![]()
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