WHITEY HERZOG SET THE STANDARD IN ST. LOUIS
No National League team won more games or more pennants in the 1980s than Whitey Herzog’s Cardinals.
The colorful Hall of Fame manager popularized “Whiteyball,” a style of play that worked like a charm on the artificial turf in St. Louis—and also carpeted NL East road parks in Montreal, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Cardinals played 67% of their games in those four parks.
Herzog’s Cardinals won the 1982 World Series and narrowly missed adding titles in 1985 and ’87, losing in seven games both
