Nevertheless, it was Marshall who helped initiate the mayhem. The Cardinals were locked in a pennant race and the rival Cubs were locked in the basement. 22, 1974, a sunny Sunday afternoon in St. An arm’s length away was another man out of place, Jim Marshall, the red-faced manager of the Cubs, who doesn’t know that a scuffle is about to knock off his toupee. But so was his teammate, José Cardenal, the second man in the batter’s box, maximum occupancy of one. There was Cubs third baseman Bill Madlock, a future four-time batting champ known as “Mad Dog.” His legs were splayed. He was behind Ted Simmons, the Cardinals catcher who paved his road to Cooperstown with tenacity.
There was Shag Crawford, whose short fuse was a virtue when umpires ruled the field like despots.
On the grainy footage, home plate looks like a clown car, with five angry men packed into a space for three. The chaos peaks just before the first punch is thrown.
