Editor's note: On Oct. 12, 1985, Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman gets his shoe caught in an automated tarp at Busch Stadium before the start of a game in the National League Championship series. in 2015, on the 30th anniversary of the event, columnist Benjamin Hochman caught up with Coleman. Here is that original article.
Deprived of a chance to be Mr. October, Vince Coleman went to see Miss October.
“We go to the playoffs in LA, and I was a guest at the Playboy Mansion — I go over to Hugh Hefner’s house,” recalled former Cardinal Coleman, who was injured in the 1985 National League championship series.