Lou Brock

Lou Brock is one of those players who genuinely changed how baseball was played — not with power, but with pure audacity on the basepaths. Growing up in Arkansas and making it to Southern University before the Cubs gave him his shot, Brock found his true home in St. Louis, where he spent the heart of his career turning stolen bases into an art form. He swiped 938 career bases and held the all-time record for years, and he was an absolute weapon in the World Series — his 1967 and 1968 postseason performances were legendary. Six All-Star nods, a Hall of Fame induction in 1985 on the very first ballot — that's the résumé of a guy who flat-out forced the game to respect speed. He passed away in September 2020, but his fingerprints are all over every fast outfielder who ever made a pitcher sweat.

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Name (English)

Lou Brock

Name (Japanese)

ルー・ブロック

Reading

るー・ぶろっく

Born

June 18, 1939 – September 6, 2020

Origin

El Dorado, Arkansas, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

University

Southern University

Awards & achievements

• Horatio Alger Award

• Official sitehttp://www.loubrock.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Brock
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3260115

Tags

• Arkansas
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.