Ernie Broglio, part of one of MLB’s most lopsided trade, dies
San Jose’s Ernie Broglio, a former major league pitcher best known for being part of perhaps the most lopsided trade in baseball history, died Tuesday night, his daughter said. He was 83.
Broglio’s daughter, Donna Broglio Cavallaro, announced her father’s passing on social media on Wednesday. He had been battling an undisclosed form of cancer.
Broglio was one of the best pitchers in the National League with the Cardinals in the early 1960s, but the Berkeley-born right-hander’s notoriety was born of a trade 55 years ago when St. Louis shipped him to the Cubs in a steal of a deal for future Hall of Famer Lou Brock.
Brock became baseball’s all-time leading basestealer — before Rickey Henderson came along — while the sore-armed Broglio won just seven games in three seasons with the Cubs. The trade has been the benchmark for bad deals, even gaining its own Wikipedia page, “Brock For Broglio.”
Broglio was best known in the Bay Area for becoming an elite pitcher. After graduating from El Cerrito High in 1953, he immediately joined the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League as a 17-year-old. He later signed with the New York Giants but was traded to St. Louis just months after the team moved to San Francisco in 1958.
He made his major league debut with the Cardinals a year later, and he truly arrived as a pitcher in 1960 when he led the National League in victories, going 21-9 with a 2.75 ERA. Broglio led the NL with a 1.48 ERA and finished third in Cy Young Award voting and ninth in the NL’s MVP voting.
But 1960 wasn’t his only stellar season as Broglio went 18-8 with a 2.99 ERA in 1963. However, after that season Broglio’s elbow was killing him and the Cardinals dealt him to the Cubs during the ’64 season.
While with the Cubs, Broglio went 7-19 with a 5.40 ERA in three seasons and underwent elbow surgery that couldn’t prevent the end of his big league career at age 30. He wound up with a 77-74 record and a 3.74 ERA in eight seasons.
NBA
PAUL TRADE TALKS STALL,
COULD PLAY FOR THUNDER >> The Oklahoma City Thunder’s discussions to trade newly acquired point guard Chris Paul have stalled, according to published reports, increasing the odds that he begins the season with the team.
The Miami Heat has been widely reported as a potential suitor for Paul, but the sides have been unable to agree on compensation.
Horse racing
HOLLENDORFER, TRAINERS
FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST DEL MAR >> Jerry Hollendorfer and the California Thoroughbred Trainers organization have filed a complaint in San Diego Superior Court against the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and the 22nd Agricultural District because the race track is not allowing the Hall of Fame trainer to participate in the summer meet that begins Wednesday in San Diego.
Filed on Monday, the complaint alleges Del Mar has not given Hollendorfer adequate cause for why he is not being allowed to work at the meet. It also claims the track has not adhered to an agreement it has with CTT about how disputes are resolved.
Attorneys for Hollendorfer and CTT are asking the court to issue a temporary restraining order to allow Hollendorfer to train at Del Mar until the matter is resolved. A court hearing could happen as early as this week.
Hollendorfer’s San Diego-based attorney, Drew Couto, declined Tuesday to discuss the case, as did DMTC president Josh Rubenstein.
The complaint is the latest development in a dispute that began June 22 when The Stronach Group, owners of Arcadia’s Santa Anita Park and Albany’s Golden Gate Fields, told the 73-year-old Hollendorfer he needed to vacate all of his stalls after a horse he trained suffered a fatal breakdown that morning during a workout.
Golf
MILPITAS’ MA ADVANCES IN JUNIOR AMATEUR >> Mitty High’s Brian Ma won his first match in the match play portion of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, beating Gaven Lane of Texas 3 and 2. Ma faces a round of 32 match this morning at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, against Nathan Han of New York. Saratoga High’s Kevin Sze lost his first match. CANADIAN PAIR LEADS LPGA’S FIRST TEAM EVENT >> In the LPGA’s first-ever team event, Canadians Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp combined for a 5-under-par 65 on Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational at Midland, Michigan.
The pair of Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel are one shot back after a round of alternate-shot play at Midland Country Club.
The tournament’s third round will also feature alternate-shot action. The second and fourth rounds will consist of better-ball play, in which each player competes through each hole on her own, with the team recording the better of the two scores.
NFL
FALCONS SIGN JONES TO
FOUR-YEAR, $57M EXTENSION >> The Falcons agreed to terms with middle linebacker Deion Jones on a contract extension, the team announced. The deal is for four years, $57 million, with $28.5 million guaranteed. Jones was drafted in the second round (52nd overall) of the NFL draft in 2016 out of LSU.
College basketball
NO PRISON FOR EX-AUBURN
ASSISTANT IN BRIBERY CASE >> Former Auburn assistant coach Chuck Person avoided prison time at his sentencing for bribery charges connected to the FBI investigation into corruption in college basketball. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan sentenced Person to time served and two years of supervised release.
Person, 55, pleaded guilty in March in a federal court in Manhattan, acknowledging he accepted $91,500 in bribes in exchange for directing players toward a specific financial adviser.
He was one of four assistant coaches among 10 people arrested in September 2017 from the FBI probe into college basketball.