The baseball lifer, who spent 76 years in the game — 67 with the St. Louis Cardinals — died yesterday at the age of 95. He had been the oldest living Hall of Famer.
He was the subject of several books, including The Red Schoendienst Story (1961, by Gene Schoor); The Man Who Fought Back (1962, by Al Hirshberg. The title refers to his battle with tuberculosis in the late 1950s); and, moist recently, Red: A Baseball Life, (1998, with Rob Rains).
Here’s his obit from The New York Times by Richard Goldstein.
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