num_pages: 224
description: The St. Louis Cardinals last celebrated a World Championship in 1982, and that milestone is commemorated in WHITEY'S BOYS, a twentieth anniversary reminiscence of that great team and its players. This book is more than just a collection of memories from that special season, however. It also tells the story of what has happened to those players since that magical summer, updating their fans on where they live, what they're doing, and what's happenedto them in the intervening years. Joaquin Andujar has returned to the Dominican Republic. Tom Herr's son Aaron, a frequent batboy for the team in 1982, is now playing in the Braves' farm system. George Hendrick is managing a team in the California League. John Stuper is the baseball coach at Yale. These and dozens of other players' stories are included in the book, as is, of course, the newest member of the Hall of Fame, Ozzie Smith. Written in the style of the classic THE BOYS OF SUMMER, and based entirely on first person interviews, WHITEY'S BOYS retraces all the great moments in the players' lives and talks about what their career has meant to them, especially now that it's over. Whitey Herzog has contributed stories and anecdotes about each of the players as well as written the foreword to the book.
language: English
title: Whitey's Boys: A Celebration of the '82 Cards World Championship
titlecomplete: Whitey's Boys: A Celebration of the '82 Cards World Championship
genres: Baseball, Sports
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Triumph Books