NATIONAL TREASURES HISTORICAL CUTS AUGUST BUSCH JR 1/1 1/1 AUTOGRAPH CUTS OF THE BEER MAN 1/1 GEM Start Price USD 785.00 Current Price USD 785.00 Time Left 22 days 10 hours 17 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 01, 2008 End Time Friday, January 30, 2009 Location Coconut Creek, Florida See more about 'NATIONAL TREASURES HISTORICAL CUTS AUGUST BUSCH JR 1/1' Description   FREE SHIPPING     2007 HISTORICAL CUTS OF AUHUST BUSH JR BREWING MAGNATE HC-AB AUTHENTIC SIGNATURE  MAKE OFFER TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHECK LIST 1/1 ONLY 2007 Playoff National Treasures Football Checklist Historical Cuts (44 cards) Card # Player - Team Seq # 1 Benjamin Harrison - No Team 5 2 A.C. Goodyear - No Team 1 3 Adolph Coors Jr. - No Team 1 4 Alexander Cartwright - No Team 1 5 August Busch Jr. - No Team 1 6 Catherine Nimitz Lay - No Team 1 7 David Brinkley - No Team 1 8 Dick Moores - No Team 1 9 Hank Ketcham - No Team 1 10 Howard K. Smith - No Team 1 11 Ira Gershwin - No Team 1 12 J.H. Doolittle - No Team 1 13 Jack Dempsey - No Team 3 14 Jamie Wyeth - No Team 1 15 Jimmy Hoffa - No Team 2 16 John D. Ehrlichman - No Team 1 17 John Glenn - No Team 1 18 Kermit Roosevelt - No Team 3 19 Richard Nixon - No Team 2 20 Rocky Marciano - No Team 2 21 Rose F. Kennedy - No Team 1 22 Virgil "Gus" Grissom - No Team 2 23 Walter Cronkite - No Team 1 24 William Overgard - No Team 1 25 William Randolph Hearst Jr. - No Team 1 26 Gerald Ford - Michigan 1 27 Walter Payton - Chicago Bears 10 28 Tom Landry - Dallas Cowboys 1 29 Rosa Parks - TBD 1 30 Ronald Reagan - TBD 1 31 Jesse Owens - TBD 1 32 Joe Louis - TBD 1 33 Max Baer - TBD 1 34 Jack Sharkey - TBD 1 35 George Burns - TBD 1 36 Gracie Allen - TBD 1 37 Redd Foxx - TBD 1 38 Red Skelton - TBD 1 39 Bob Waterfield - Los Angeles Rams 5 40 Ernie Stautner - Pittsburgh Steelers 5 41 Hank Stram - Kansas City Chiefs 5 42 Johnny Unitas - Baltimore Colts 5 43 Paul Brown - Cleveland Browns 5 44 Doak Walker - Detroit Lions 5   ©2008 Donruss. ©2008 Playoff. ©2008 Score. All Rights Reserved.Donruss Playoff L.P. 2300   September 30, 1989OBITUARY August A. Busch Jr. Dies at 90; Built Largest Brewing Company By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr. August Anheuser Busch Jr., the master showman and irrepressible salesman who turned a small family operation into the world's largest brewing company, died yesterday at his home in suburban St. Louis County, Mo. He was 90 years old and had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. August Anheuser Busch Jr., the master showman and irrepressible salesman who turned a small family operation into the world's largest brewing company, died yesterday at his home in suburban St. Louis County, Mo. He was 90 years old and had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. He had been honorary chairman of the Anheuser-Busch Companies since his retirement in 1975. But he had remained active as the president of the St. Louis Cardinals, the National League baseball club he persuaded the company's board to buy in 1953. Mr. Busch, known as Gussie to virtually everybody who did not know him and as Gus to those who knew him well enough not to call him Mr. Busch, was the grandson and great-grandson of the founders of the company that bore two of his names. The company, founded in 1876, survived Prohibition by moving into widely diverse products like soft drinks and automobile bodies. Born in St. Louis on March 28, 1899, Mr. Busch entered the family business as a young man and became general superintendent of brewing operations in 1924. He took over as head of the brewery division after the death of his father in 1934. Although he did not become president of the company until the death of his older brother, Adolphus Busch 3d, in 1946, Mr. Busch had already made his mark as a salesman-showman. To celebrate the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Mr. Busch recalled the draft horses that had once pulled beer wagons in Germany and pre-automotive America and obtained a team to haul the first case of Budweiser down Pennsylvania Avenue for delivery to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. Since then the famous eight-horse hitch of Clydesdales has become almost as famous as the brand they continue to promote. What was undoubtedly Mr. Busch's greatest promotional coup was disguised as a civic duty - the company's purchase of the Cardinals for $7.8 million in 1953 after the previous owner was convicted of income tax invasion. ''My ambition,'' Mr. Busch declared, ''is, whether hell or high water, to get a championship baseball team for St. Louis before I die.'' He had a long wait. But beginning in 1964, the team won six National League pennants, most recently in 1987, and the World Series in 1964, 1967 and 1982. Savored Success Mr. Busch savored success, and he became a familiar triumphant figure to baseball fans in league playoffs and World Series home games when he would ride into Busch Stadium on the Clydesdale wagon waving a red cowboy hat. He attributed the team's success and the company's to his policy of noninterference. Even so, he was active in the club's affairs long after he left the company to others, and in 1982 he led the campaign among major league owners not to retain the previous commissioner, Bowie Kuhn. Through the Clydesdales and the Cardinals, other promotional gimmicks and a commitment to mass advertising, Mr. Busch turned a comparatively small and financially ailing company into the industry giant. In his 29 years as the company's active head, sales of beer went from 3 million to 37 million barrels a year. Last year the company produced 78.5 million barrels, almost double the output of its nearest competitor, and recorded sales of $9.7 billion. Its flagship brand, Budweiser, is the most popular beer in the world. Medium Stature, Loud Voice Through direct ownership and various trusts, Mr. Busch owned 12.5 percent of the company, or more than 30 million shares of its common stock. At yesterday's closing price of $43.375 on the New York Stock Exchange, the holdings were worth more than $1.3 billion. The day's increase of $1.125 a share represented a gain of more than $30 million. Trading in the company's stock was suspended for 20 minutes after the announcement of his death. Mr. Busch, at 5 feet 10 inches tall and 165 pounds, was a man of medium stature, but he had a loud voice that was once likened to the roar of a hoarse lion. Fortunately for his colleagues, he had a sense of humor about his own shortcomings, which included a hairtrigger temper. ''All right, you guys,'' he once shouted at a raucous company meeting. ''Let me blow my stack first. Then you can blow yours.'' He also had an outsized zest for life, and both the wealth and the inclination to indulge it. Among other things, his 281-acre estate, Grant's Farm, includes a cabin built by hand by President Ulysses S. Grant and has a 34-room French Renaissance chateau and a well-stocked private zoo, which reflect his abiding love of animals. Mr. Busch trained his own chimpanzees and elephants before donating them to the St. Louis Zoo. A onetime rodeo rider who later served as master of the Bridlespur Hunt outside St. Louis, Mr. Busch stocked his air-conditioned stables with several breeds, including hackneys, hunters and jumpers. He clattered his way into family legend one day when he rode one of his horses up the main staircase of the family residence to cheer up his bedridden father. Mr. Busch was married four times. Two of the marriages ended in divorce. His last wife, the former Margaret Rohde, died last year. His survivors include a sister, Mrs. Carl W. Gronewaldt of Cooperstown, N.Y., and 10 children. They are Carlota Busch Giersch of Pasadena, Calif., and Lilly Busch Hermann of St. Louis, both daughters of the late Mrs. Marie Church Busch; August A. Busch 3d of St. Louis and Elizabeth Busch Burke of Middleburg, Va., children of the late Elizabeth Overton Busch; Adolphus A. Busch 4th of St. Louis, Beatrice Busch von Gontard of St. Louis, Peter W. Busch of Vero Beach, Fla., Trudy Busch Valentine of St. Louis, William K. Busch of St. Louis and Andrew D. Busch of St. Louis, all children of Gertrude Buholzer Busch. Mr. Busch is also survived by 27 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. 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