Only two Cardinals have hit .340 or better and stolen 45 or more bases in the same season. One of them you surely knew. Willie McGee, in his Most Valuable Player year of 1985, batted a league-best .353 and stole 56 bases.
The other player was here for only two seasons, actually 1 2/3, owing to the August, 1994 players’ strike that wound up ending that season prematurely. This was Gregg Jefferies, who stole 46 bases — believed to be a single-season record by a first baseman — and hit .342 in 1993. His batting averages of .