Ernie Broglio tied for the National League lead in victories in 1960 when he won 21 for the Cardinals in his second big-league season. The righthander also won 18 for the 1963 Cardinals team which challenged for, but fell short of, the National League pennant.

But despite those successes, Broglio forever will be remembered as the other half of the trade that brought future Hall of Famer Lou Brock to St. Louis from Chicago in June, 1964. Broglio, after battling cancer, died at age 83 Tuesday night in San Jose, Calif., according to his daughter, Nancy Broglio Salerno.

Brock, a promising but inconsistent, power-hitting outfielder for the Cubs, went on to hit .348 and stealing 33 bases for the Cardinals after they acquired him in 1964, sparking the club to the National League pennant and then the World Series title.

Battling arm problems, Broglio went 4-7 for the Cubs that year. In the next two seasons, Broglio was 1-6 and then 2-6 for Chicago and never pitched in the majors after 1966. He would finish 7-19 for the Cubs after going 70-55 for the Cardinals.

In an interview with this newspaper five years ago, Broglio laughed and said, “It’s always nice to talk about that trade. I don’t mind. At least they remember who I am.”

The party of the second part, Brock, said Wednesday night, “We talked about it. He was always gracious when he talked about it.

“(It) felt so ridiculous when he was traded. He had so much going for him,” said Brock, who just turned 80. “And you had a .240 hitter (Brock was hitting 251) coming the other way and it sure didn’t look like much _ until the day after I got here.”

Once Brock arrived with Cardinals, he said manager Johnny Keane called a team meeting and said the club was going to have a new base stealer at the top of the order, where Brock really hadn’t hit much in Chicago.

“Me?” Brock recalls himself saying.

“That’s how it all got started.”

Some 888 of his National League record 938 steals ensued and 2,913 of his 3,023 hits.

“When you’re hitting less than .300, you felt like you were a failure,” said Brock. “For three years (in Chicago), I was like a failure. I sort of found the secret and decided to go for the batting average (rather than the power).

“Then I got it right,” said Brock.

But Brock never enjoyed batting against Broglio all that much. “What a curveball he had,” said Brock. “I could hit a curveball that didn’t break that much but his broke straight down. Righthanded hitters had a terrible time with him.”

In 1960, Broglio finished third in the Cy Young Award voting and ninth in the MVP balloting.

Broglio also was with the Cincinnati and New York/San Francisco Giants organizations before the Giants traded him to the Cardinals after the 1958 season. The Giants’ haul for Broglio was not as good as the Cardinals’ as the Giants received journeyman catcher Hobie Landrith and relief pitcher Billy Muffett. Plus Broglio had a bad arm.

Broglio’s death was the third of former Cardinals in the past two weeks. Also dying were reserve outfielder Gary Kolb, at 79, and lefthanded pitcher Joe Grzenda at 82,

Kolb’s best season with the Cardinals was in 1963 when he hit .275 with three of his six career homers in 75 games and gained notoriety by running for Stan Musial after Musial got his final hit of his career in the season’s final game.

Grzenda finished his career with the Cardinals in 1972 with a 1-0 mark and 5.66 ERA. He previously had pitched for five other clubs.

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