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Cardinals’ Will Clark retires
■A six-time All-Star and
career 303 hitter, Will The
ThrilT calls it quits after
strong 2000 season
By David Scott
Associated Press Writer
ST. LOUIS — Cardinals first
baseman Will Clark, known for his
intensity and sweet left-handed
swing, retired Thursday, ending a
15-year career that began in San
Francisco and included stops in
Texas and Baltimore.
The announcement was a sur
prise, considering the way Clark
played during the final two
months of the season while sub
bing for Mark McGwire.
“In every player’s career, sooner
or later, you’re going to have to
make a decision to move on,”
Clark said. “The first part of my
life was based on being a baseball
player. The second part of my life
is going to be based on being a
daddy and a husband.”
Clark, 36, hit .345 with 12 home
runs and 42 RBIs for the Cardinals,
who acquired him July 31 from
Baltimore.
“We were looking forward to
having Will come back,” Cardinals
general manager Walt Jocketty
said. “Everyone knows what he
added to our club the second half
really put us over the top.”
Clark lived up to his nickname,
“The Thrill,” in his first at-bat with
the club, hitting a pinch-homer. He
then homered in each of his first
four starts.
He also hit .345 in the postsea
son, and his three-run, first-inning
homer off Atlanta’s Tom Glavine
in Game 2 of the NL division series
helped send St. Louis into its first
NL championship series since
1996.
“I just want to say thank you to
the Cardinals organization, which
allowed me to have a lot, a lot of
fun the last two months of the
2000 season,” Clark said.
While Clark said he’d been
thinking about retirement for some
time, he made the decision last
weekend after talking to his fami
ly, Jocketty and manager Tony La
Russa. The rigors of traveling and
playing the game every day, com
bined with having 36 bone chips
removed from his left elbow from
1996 to 1999, led to Clark’s choice
to leave the game.
“I can still hit, I can still play,
still field my position,” Clark said.
“But also at the same time, this is
the right time for me to exit.”
McGwire underwent knee sur
gery last month and hopes to be
ready for spring training. Even if
he’s not, Clark said he won’t be
back.
“I’ll come in and shake his hand
and give everybody high-fives and
pump them up, but I’m not going
to run out there on the field,” Clark
said.
Clark admitted he was tempted
to stay with the Cardinals, who
lost to the Mets 4-1 in the NLCS.
The Cardinals are expected to
push for free agent pitcher Mike
Hampton, and with a healthy
McGwire, should be a World Se
ries contender in 2001.
“The one thing I played this
long for was to get a World Series
ring. That was my ultimate goal,”
Clark said. “I wasn’t able to
achieve it, but I’ve been close.”
Clark spent eight years with the
Giants before moving on to Texas
in 1994 and Baltimore in 1999. He
ends his career with a .303 batting
average, 284 home runs and 1,205
RBIs.
“I admire Will for making a
tough decision at a time when he
clearly had other baseball op
tions,” said Clark’s agent, Jeff
Moorad. “I had two other teams
who asked why we hadn’t filed for
free agency, because they were in
terested in Will.”
While looking forward to his
first summer off since 1980, Clark
made it clear Thursday he planned
to stick around the game, although
he didn’t express much interest in
managing.
Jocketty said Clark would be
welcome in the Cardinals organi
zation, and Clark, who will be put
on the voluntary retired list, prom
ised Jocketty he’d call soon.
“I would say I’m pretty much
committed to the Cardinals, and
that’s about it,” Clark said. “From
what the Cardinals showed me in
my short 2 1/2 months with them,
believe me, they deserve all my
loyalty.”
A six-time All-Star, Clark was
the MVP of the 1989 NL champi
onship series for San Francisco.
A first-round selection from
Mississippi State, Clark homered
on his first minor and major league
at-bats, on his first swings both
times.
The home run that came off
Nolan Ryan in his first at-bat, and
getting a base hit off Mitch*
Williams to win the ’89 NLCS, are
at the top of Clark’s favorite mo-.
ments in the game.
Right behind are the 51 games
he spent in St. Louis.
“It was just an absolute joyride,”
Clark said.
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