STOLEN BASE CHAMPION IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE

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The Lou Brock Award is given to the National League player with the most stolen bases. In 1978, the senior circuit announced that its annual stolen base leader would receive the Lou Brock Award, making Brock the first active player to have an award named after him. Research byBaseball Almanac.

"When it came to stealing bases,Lou Brock was the black Red Baron. He stole 917 bases in his 18-year Hall of Fame career, and for him sneaking from first base to second base was more than just a 90-foot sprint." - Ostler, Scott. Sportswriter.The Telegraph: Lou Brock and the Physics of Stealing. 1 October 1981. Page 15.

Lou Brock shared this great story inThe Telegraph (10/01/1981, 'Lou Brock and the physics of stealing'), "Every time I'd steal on (Steve)Yeager and get to second, he'd look down and chalk one up in the air with his finger, like 'that's one for you.' One day I got to first and he yelled down to his first baseman, 'Let me know.' I said, 'Who me?' He said, 'Yeah, you. Let me know.' I said, 'I'm going.' He threw me out by 20 feet. I ran back to the dugout and up the runway.Yeager, rather than put his mask back on, was up the first-base line in front of our dugout screaming at me to come out so he could chalk one up for himself."

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Did you know that onAugust 29, 1977, at Jack Murphy Stadium,Lou Brock became theall-time major league stolen base leader when he brokeTy Cobb's career record of eight-hundred ninety-two stolen bases?