ST. LOUIS — Enos Stanley Kroenke, a native of Missouri and the owner of the Rams, is named after two of this city’s most revered baseball figures, the hustling outfielder Enos Slaughter and the gentlemanly hitter Stan Musial.
Mr. Kroenke, 68, was once a local hero, too. He helped lure the Rams, a National Football League franchise, from Los Angeles in 1995 and was a minority owner of the team when it won the Super Bowl in 2000.
But now that the Rams are returning to the West Coast, Mr. Kroenke has assumed the cartoon villainy of many a franchise owner who has broken a city’s heart by relocating a team.