Lou Brock

CTL-E-6812 · Person · other · 1939–2020

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07684 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6812.

Louis Clark Brock (1939–2020) was an outfielder who turned speed into art on the basepaths, beginning his major-league career in Chicago before becoming a St. Louis legend. According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Brock was born June 18, 1939, in El Dorado, Arkansas, played college baseball at Southern University, signed as an amateur free agent with the Cubs in 1960, and surfaced in Chicago at the end of the 1961 season, becoming the Cubs' regular outfielder. On June 15, 1964, the Cubs traded Brock to the Cardinals, where, the Hall records, he hit .348 over the rest of that season and helped St. Louis to the pennant. The Hall of Fame further records, as career statistics attributed to it and accessed 2026-11-03, that Brock retired in 1979 with 938 stolen bases and a .293 batting average, held the single-season and all-time stolen-base records at retirement, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985 in his first year of eligibility. Chicago kept the beginning of the story: the scout-signed Cub who got away.

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• Also known as: Louis Clark Brock

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0275 (cross-ref restored at head assembly from s1-selection.json; the build lane's assignment excerpt had omitted the number). Firsts disposition: no roster 'first' is asserted on this record; stolen-base records are stated only as Hall of Fame-attributed career facts, not as a CTL first claim. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Brock's Chicago chapter is short and consequential — the Cubs held a future Hall of Fame catalyst and traded him inside the division, a decision St. Louis converted into championships. Photo: HELD at build-lane stage (the lane's Commons route timed out); CLEARED by the head at assembly via the Commons API — see media layer.

Relationships

• Chicago Cubs — played for
  National Baseball Hall of Fame: Lou Brock signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1960, debuted in Chicago in 1961 and was the Cubs' regular outfielder before his June 15, 1964 trade to St. Louis.

Sources

• National Baseball Hall of Fame. "Brock remembered for turning speed into art on bases." Baseball Hall of Fame. Accessed 2026-11-03. https://baseballhall.org/discover/brock-remembered-for-turning-speed-into-art (primary source · build store)
• Baseball-Reference Bullpen. "Lou Brock." Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed 2026-11-03. https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lou_Brock (build store)

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