Red is an American former player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1945-56, 1961-63), New York Giants (1956-57), and the Milwaukee Braves (1957-60). After his retirement in 1965, he managed the Cardinals for twelve years. During his management, St. Louis won National League pennants in ’67 and ’68 and beat the Boston Red Sox in the ’67 World Series.

In 1945 he started with the Cardinals as a left fielder and in ’46 moved in to cover second base. Also in 1946, Red won the Home Run Derby Contest.
“The greatest pair of hands I’ve ever seen,” said Stan Musial, teammate of Red Schoendienst.  With Red’s sure hands and fast reflexes, he handled 320 consecutive chances without an error in 1950. Setting the league record in ’56, Red had a .9934 fielding average. His record stood until Ryne Sandberg beat it thirty years later.

In 1957 he was traded from the second-division Giants to the Milwaukee Braves during mid-season, and he led the team to its first pennant in nine years. The team kept winning, all the way through the World Series against the New York Yankees. This was the Braves’ only championship in Milwaukee, and the first against the Yankees since 1914. 1958 was a successful year as the Braves became the National League champions, however in ’59 Red only played in five games as he successfully battled tuberculosis. He returned to the Braves and played 68 games in 1960, then worked as a player-coach for the Cardinals from ‘61-’63. He became a fulltime coach in ’64 and then became manager. Schoendienst was also the coach for the Oakland Athletics in 1977-78, but then returned to the Cardinals as a coach, acting manager and special assistant to the general manager.

Schoendienst careers stats as set as a .289 batting average, 84 home runs, 773 RBIs, 1223 runs, 2449 hits, 427 doubles, 78 triples, and 89 stolen bases, in 2216 games played. He also racked up a .983 fielding average with only 170 errors.
Red Schoendienst was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 and he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in the same year.