On June 15, 1964, the Chicago Cubs traded Lou Brock, Jack Spring and Paul Toth to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ernie Broglio, Don Landrum and Bobby Shantz. Brock would end up leading the Cards to the World Series and eventually ended up in the Hall of Fame while Broglio came up with a dead arm and would be out of baseball by 1966. In the years since then the trade has taken on mythical status as the worst trade of all time. Many revisionists use this trade to illustrate the failure of the 1969...
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