April 6, 2011

In the seventh inning of the first game of the 1968 World Series, El Dorado (Union County) native Lou Brock, a member of the defending world champion St. Louis Cardinals, hit the first of his two home runs of the series. The ticket shown here allowed a fan to witness Brock’s home run with no one on base in a game that also saw Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson set a new series record with seventeen strikeouts. Though the Cardinals lost the series in seven games, Brock finished with an excellent series batting average of .464.

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