Editor's note: Whitey Herzog was hired as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals 35 years ago today - on June 9, 1980. This article first was published the same day in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Whitey Herzog, a self-described "very opinionated, hard-headed Dutchman" takes over the bottomed-out baseball Cardinals tonight in Atlanta as the man August A. Busch Jr., director of the board and chief executive officer of the Redbirds, describes as "My type of manager, without any argument."
After having introduced Herzog as his first choice to replace the unfrocked Ken Boyer, Busch said Sunday that he had been "so impressed with Whitey, I felt we had to make (a change) right now.