Editor's note: With the baseball season on hold, Hall of Famer Rick Hummel is presenting STLtoday.com subscribers with a look back at 10 of the most memorable games he's covered.
Today he recalls the World Series clincher against the Brewers. This is his original article, filed on Oct. 20, 1982.
The last time the Cardinals won the world championship of baseball, Lyndon B. Johnson was president, the split-fingered fastball hadn't been invented and most baseball teams still played on God's green earth instead of that artificial stuff.