Ernie Broglio

Infobox MLB retired
name=Ernie Broglio
position=Pitcher


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textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1935|8|27
deathdate=
debutdate=April 11
debutyear=1959
debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals
finaldate=July 2
finalyear=1966
finalteam=Chicago Cubs
stat1label=Pitching record
stat1value=77-74
stat2label=Earned run average
stat2value=3.74
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=849
teams=
*St. Louis Cardinals (1959–1964)
*Chicago Cubs (1964-66)
highlights=
*National League wins champion: 1960

Ernest Gilbert Broglio (born August 27, 1935 in Berkeley, California) was a right-handed pitcher in American Major League Baseball from 1959-66. Broglio signed with the independent Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League after he attended West Contra Costa Junior College. He was acquired by the New York Giants in 1956. After two seasons in the Giants’ minor league system—when he won 17 games each year—Broglio was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in October 1958.

Although he led the National League in wins with 21 for the by|1960 Cardinals and won 18 for the by|1963 Redbirds, Broglio is best remembered as the “other player” in the ultimately lopsided trade that sent future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock from the Chicago Cubs to the Cardinals on June 15, by|1964.

When the deal was made, it was initially seen as a heist for the Cubs. Broglio had started slowly with the Cardinals that season, but had won 18 games only the year before and he was considered a top-flight starting pitcher. Brock—one of the fastest men in the game with surprising power as a hitter—had been a disappointment in Chicago. But Brock would bat .348 for the rest of the ’64 season, leading the Cardinals to a world championship. He then would play another 15 years, star in two more World Series (1967-68), and set the career stolen base record (938, since broken by Rickey Henderson). Meanwhile, Broglio would a compile a record of seven wins and 19 defeats for the Cubs. It is rumored that in by|1966, Broglio—upset with both his own performance and the constant abuse of Cub fans—burned his uniform and equipment at Wrigley Field and stormed off, never to return to Major League Baseball. Fact|date=February 2007

His final record in the majors: 77 wins, 74 defeats, with an earned run average of 3.74. Perhaps unfairly for Broglio, the term “Brock for Broglio” is still in use in the sports world to signify a ridiculously lopsided player trade.

ee also

* List of Major League Baseball wins champions

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/brogler01.shtml Baseball reference]