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Enos Slaughter

Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (died 2002)

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Born
April 27, 1916
Died
August 12, 2002
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Birth year
1916

About Enos Slaughter

Enos Bradsher Slaughter, nicknamed "Country", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He played for 19 seasons on four major league teams from 1938 to 1942 and 1946 to 1959. He is noted primarily for his playing for the St. Louis Cardinals and famously scored the winning run in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series for the Cardinals. A ten-time All-Star, he has been elected to both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame. The Martinsville Manufacturers were Slaughter's first professional team, in 1935. Slaughter was known for his hustle, especially for running hard to first base on walks, a habit later imitated by Pete Rose and David Eckstein. After debuting with the Cardinals in 1938, Slaughter became an everyday outfielder for them in 1939.

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Enos Slaughter timeline

  1. The Martinsville Manufacturers were Slaughter's first professional team, in 1935.
  2. After debuting with the Cardinals in 1938, Slaughter became an everyday outfielder for them in 1939.

The world when Enos Slaughter was born

Enos Slaughter was born in 1916. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1916

  • Best-selling book"Seventeen" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentGeorgia Tech defeats Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided football game ever
  • Top headlineBattle of the Somme — 1 million casualties
  • Technology milestoneTanks first used in warfare
  • Notable inventionMilitary tanks
  • World population~1.76B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population99.6M

1916 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Enos Slaughter's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19162026
Population99.6M341 million

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