In a career that spanned 35 years, most of them spent with the Cardinals as a player, coach and executive, Charles Dallan “Dal” Maxvill is most remembered lately for his 10-year stint as their general manager.
His run was from 1985-94 and those clubs won National League championships in two of his first three seasons. But then Maxvill ran into a period in which team owner Anheuser-Busch basically decided it was more important to produce championship beer than a championship baseball team.
When the Granite City native and Washington University electrical engineering graduate was asked to cut payroll some 10% in 1994, from an already modest $27.