Honors
| Enos Slaughter's number 9 was retired by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996. |
Slaughter was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985. His jersey number 9 was retired by the Cardinals in 1996, and the team dedicated a statue depicting his famous Mad Dash in 1999. Slaughter was a fixture at statue dedications at Busch Stadium II for other Cardinal Hall of Famers during the last years of his life.
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