Enos Bradsher Slaughter (1916 - 2002)

Born 27 Apr 1916 in Roxboro, North Carolina

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Died 12 Aug 2002 at age 86 in Durham, North Carolina

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Enos Bradsher Slaughter (April 27, 1916 – August 12, 2002), nicknamed "Country", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He played for 19-seasons on four major league teams from 1938–1942 and 1946–1959. He is noted primarily for his playing for the St. Louis Cardinals and is best known for scoring the winning run in Game Seven of the 1946 World Series. A ten time All-Star, he has been elected to both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame.

Enos was the son of Zadok Slaughter and Lonie Frances Gentry Slaughter. He was one of at least five children. His father was a tobacco farmer.

Enos learned to play baseball at a young age and told of making his own balls and using a home made bat to play in neighborhood games. By the age of 19, Enos was spotted at a try-out camp by St. Louis Cardinal's scout Billy Southworth who signed Enos to a minor league contract for the 1935 season. Enos batted left and threw right handed.

Enos rose through the minor leagues quickly and debuted for the St. Louis Cardinals in April, 1938. He played from the 1938 season until the 1942 season where he became the team's every day right fielder. When World War II broke out, Enos joined the US Army and served three years. Upon his return from the war, Enos rejoined the Cardinals and played with them until 1953 when he was traded to the New York Yankees. He also played for the Kansas City Athletics and the Milwaukee Braves before retiring in 1959. After he retired as a major league player, Enos was a player-manager for two seasons in the minor leagues before accepting a position as baseball coach for Duke University. He retired for baseball completely after the 1977 season.

Enos is known for always running while on the baseball field, a trait that he said started when he was in the minor leagues. He was walking off the field at the end of an inning when his manager, Eddie Dyer, asked him if he was tired and needed help getting off the field. From then on, Enos ran or jogged whenever he was on the baseball field - including running to first base when he was walked.

Enos also was a controversial figure, which effected his selection to the Hall of Fame. During the 1947 season, Slaughter and several other Cardinals believed that Jackie Robinson, baseball's first African American player, should not have been allowed to play. In a memorable game between the Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, Slaughter was out on a routine play to first and deliberately spiked Robinson, causing a seven inch gash on Robinson's thigh. Although Slaughter denied any racial bias against Robinson after he retired, the incident was cemented in the history of baseball.

Enos was selected to the All Star Game 10 times and won 4 World Series Championships. He was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 by the Veterans Committee.

Enos married Hughle Isabelle Powell, daughter of R. M. Powell and Nancy Crisp, on January 5, 1935. They were married in Halifax, Virginia. They had at least four daughters. Enos died in August, 2002 from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He is buried at the Allensville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Allensville, Person County, North Carolina, USA.

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• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enos_Slaughter

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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZV3-H2X : 14 December 2015), Zadock Slaughter, Allensville, Person, North Carolina, United States; citing sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,314.

"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVYQ-HS13 : 20 February 2015), Mr Enos Bradsher Slaughter, Durham, North Carolina, United States, 13 Aug 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Herald-Sun, The, born-digital text.

"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K85N-YL2 : 5 December 2014), Enos B Slaughter, enlisted 27 Aug 1942, St Louis, Missouri, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X51W-D46 : 5 December 2014), Zadok Slaughter in entry for Enos Bradsher Slaughter and Hughle Isabelle Powell, 05 Jan 1935; citing Halifax, Virginia, reference p1; FHL microfilm 2,048,454.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVW-CQNJ : 13 December 2015), Enos Bradsher Slaughter, 2002; Burial, Allensville, Person, North Carolina, United States of America, Allensville United Methodist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 6793223, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Legacy. Com - http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/enos-slaughter-controversial-cardinal

Goold: On Jackie and the Cardinals - http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/goold-on-jackie-and-the-cardinals/article_0aecf971-2e97-569f-bc23-1f41a63ae27a.html