Saturday, June 9, 2018

As A Player, Red Schoendienst Had Few Peers

As they readied for a commercial shoot at the Cardinals’ spring training campus in Florida, the advertising agency hired to produce the spot wondered openly if it should prep a body double for the star. The original script called for Red Schoendienst, Cardinals Hall of Famer, to chop “fungo grounders” to infielders and, once everybody else had left the field, peek around before he “then tosses up a ball and hammers it.”

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